This chapter deals with the main institutions in the field of adult education and training that receive an endowment or are subsidized by the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Some of these providers are institutions of second-chance education and are therefore aimed at adults without secondary education certificate.
Certain adult education bodies are aimed at both, professionals as well as jobseekers, others offer special programs to better prepare young or older unemployed or hard-to-place jobseekers on the labour market.
Other providers offer targeted training opportunities or provide re-training courses in particular disciplines.
Since 2008 there has been also a tailored decreed basis for the non-formal adult education, which previously recognized 13 private institutions. The aim is to promote social inclusion, equal opportunities, collective ability to act, the sense of citizenship and learning essential social and civic values.
The promotion of lifelong learning is the main objective of all education and training programs offered by the various providers