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AIVD is an ambassador of Adult Education in Slovakia. For 30 years, we have united institutions dedicated to adult education, helping our members grow and advocating for their interests. We drive innovation, forge international partnerships, and actively contribute to the development of adult education in Slovakia and beyond.
We have been working on a quality assurance system in Slovakia for over 20 years, participating in various EU projects and prioritizing this in our agenda. We believe that quality institutions capable of delivering desired results are crucial to increasing adult engagement in lifelong learning.
Our contributions to quality assurance include:
The QualTrack Project: Aims to design a comprehensive quality rating system for adult learning providers. This system will help institutions develop quality elements, promote themselves with a quality mark, and provide customers with clear information about the price-quality ratio. QualTrack is implemented by a partnership of five organizations from the Czech Republic, Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Slovakia, and is financed by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ program.
We are responsible for the project’s dissemination, sustainability, and stakeholder engagement, which includes developing the dissemination and exploitation strategy, conducting dissemination webinars, and organizing the final event.
Klaudius Šilhár
President of AIVD
Klaudius has been active in ALE since 2000, and held various positions in both the non-profit and private sectors. PhD in Andragogy – Quality management systems in ALE institutions (2010), university lecturer (2011-2020). Founder and organizer of the Lifelong Learning Week in Slovakia (24 years) and AIVD SR Awards. AIVD SR president since 2011, member of the Executive Board of the European Association for the Education of Adults (2017-2023). Currently works also with the Sectoral Councils Alliance, drawing from extensive experience in numerous domestic and international projects.
Marta Jendeková
Member of the Executive Board of AIVD
Marta is a manager, senior expert and trainer at a Slovak NGO, AINova (Slovakia). She has an MA degree in English and Library&Information Science from the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia (1995) and MA in EU Legal Studies from EIPA Luxembourg/University of Nancy, France (2001). She has completed a number of train-the-trainers courses on EU law, EU negotiations, as well as project cycle management, public policy advising and institution building. She has over 25 years of professional experience in the education & training sector, in projects at national and international level. In recent years she has been involved also in research work, mainly in the adult education policy area on regional and local level, as well as the quality of provision and providers.
Michal Deneš
Expert
Michal has been professionally involved in adult education practically since his graduation. He began his career as a lecturer in adult education. For more than 10 years, he has been working on policies in the field of further education and adult education, firstly at the Department of Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport. He currently works at the EU programs management section of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, where he is responsible for programming EU funds calls in the field of education for the labour market, upskilling and reskilling. In the past, he worked as a national expert in the Working Group on Adult Learning of the EU ET2020 strategic framework. In 2020, he personally participated in the organization of an international professional seminar on the topic of individual learning accounts, which helped to launch a professional discussion on the introduction of this tool in the conditions of the Slovak Republic.
Klaudia Bednárová
Vice-President of the Executive Board of AIVD
Klaudia graduated from the Faculty of Education at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, specializing in English Language and Literature. In 2009, she founded The Bridge – English Language Centre, and in 2019, she established KOGNEO, an Academy of Adult and Senior Education. She was a founding member of the Slovak Chamber of English Teachers and the Slovak Association of Language Schools. Klaudia served as Chairwoman of the Slovak Chamber of English Teachers (2019-2023) and the Slovak Association of Language Schools (2011-2016). Currently, she is the Vice-President of the Association of Institutions of Adult Education. Passionate about teacher training, she runs projects like Eltforum.sk and The Bridge Re-Boot Camp for Teachers. Her professional interest lies in effective learning strategies, advocating for an eclectic and holistic approach to teaching and learning.
National Registries of Adult Learning and Education to support the deployment of Individual Learning Accounts – RALExILA
Project Ref: 101132300
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