On 19 June 2026, the PROMOTE project was presented at the EBSN Annual Conference in Lisbon, held under the theme “Basic Skills for Life, Work and Democratic Participation in Times of Transformation.” The event provided an important opportunity to place the project’s ongoing developments into a wider European professional context and to introduce its emerging work to a broader community of adult learning professionals, researchers and stakeholders.
The session helped show that PROMOTE is not only relevant within the correctional field itself, but also speaks to broader questions around adult basic skills, lifelong learning, inclusion and professional development. It highlighted that correctional settings are also part of the adult learning landscape, and that professionals working in and around these environments often support learners whose needs are closely connected to life skills, citizenship competences and social reintegration. In this way, the project contributed to a wider reflection on the importance of adult basic skills development in complex institutional contexts.
The presentation also created a valuable space to share elements of the PROMOTE methodology, including its approach to identifying professional realities, mapping needs and building training responses together with practitioners and stakeholders. This exchange made it possible not only to present the project’s direction and emerging results, but also to open a broader discussion on learner-centred design, competence-based development and meaningful training pathways.
The contribution was met with clear interest and positive attention, confirming that the project raises questions and offers approaches that resonate well beyond the immediate partnership. For PROMOTE, the conference was therefore an important moment of visibility, dialogue and wider professional outreach.
