According to UNESCO, adult education should not only contribute more broadly to the improvement of an individual’s professional qualifications, but should also allow space for reflection on the human values that social progress has a duty to preserve.

Adult education aims at the continuous acquisition of knowledge throughout life. It is a dynamic process that goes beyond traditional learning models, in which the trainer is the sole actor in the learning process and defines what must be learned.

Adult education is not a process of memorisation, but rather a process of acquiring more and better competencies, in which the learner decides what they want to learn and how they want to learn. In this process, the learner is an active participant in the development of their own learning, together with the trainer.

Adults view lifelong learning as an added value at both personal and professional levels. This educational journey, undertaken by adults, results from changes in individual lives and/or from shared external factors, such as career changes, the need to update skills in response to new market demands, the acquisition of new knowledge or, simply, personal and/or professional self-fulfilment.