INTEGRA (KA122-ADU): a summary of implementation and impact
INTEGRA Results: Digital, Green and International Capacity for Adult Education
INTEGRA (Project number: 2024-1-SK01-KA122-ADU-000223830) is now completed. Over the project lifetime, IKReON carried out staff mobilities focused on three priorities: internationalisation & multilingualism, digital education (including AI), and environmental sustainability. The aim was to raise the quality of our adult education work in Ružomberok and build stronger European cooperation.
Mobilities delivered: 12 staff mobilities (training courses + job shadowing)
Main locations: Tenerife (ES), Athens (GR), Kozani/Thessaloniki (GR)
Focus areas: Digital & AI in education, sustainability in daily teaching, international cooperation and multilingual work
What Changed Inside IKReON
Digital & AI practice
During the training course in Tenerife on ICT tools for adult education, our staff worked on interactive lesson design, visual communication, collaborative boards, feedback tools and safe online behaviour. We also explored responsible use of AI for planning and evaluation. As a result, IKReON now uses tools such as Padlet, Genially and simple AI-assisted lesson planning more systematically, with stronger attention to GDPR and digital safety.
Sustainability in daily teaching
The sustainability-focused training course took place in Athens. Staff worked on zero-waste routines, conscious material use, microplastics and environmental health, and how to recognise “greenwashing”. We turned this into a sustainability checklist and a short action-plan template that we now integrate in our courses. Sustainability is now visible in the room, not just mentioned on slides.
Job shadowing and management routines
Job shadowing in Greece (Innovation Bee, Kozani/Thessaloniki) allowed our staff to observe real adult education delivery, support to learners, cooperation with municipalities and SMEs, and daily programme management. The host also shared approaches to innovation and AI in adult learning, going beyond what we had initially planned. Back in Ružomberok we took inspiration for clearer mentoring of learners, better documentation of impact, and more structured partner mapping.
Impact on Learners (Also Those Who Didn’t Travel)
After each mobility, returning staff ran short peer-to-peer sessions inside IKReON. That way, new methods didn’t stay with one person. We updated lesson plans, integrated more multilingual support, and built sustainability steps (sorting waste, reusing materials, questioning “eco” claims) into everyday activities.
For adult learners, this means sessions that are more interactive, clearer in feedback, and safer digitally. It also means sustainability is presented as something practical and local, not abstract. These improvements remain in IKReON after the formal end of the project.
Partnerships & Next Steps
INTEGRA helped us deepen cooperation with training providers abroad and directly observe how adult education is run in different contexts. It also gave us stronger local and regional links — with municipalities, NGOs, SMEs, innovation actors and community spaces — which supports the long-term sustainability of what we learned.
All mobilities were formally recognised. Each participant received a Certificate of Attendance and a Europass Mobility. The materials produced and collected during INTEGRA are now reference points for our team and a base for future collaborations.
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Programme: Erasmus+ KA122-ADU (short-term staff mobilities)
Project: INTEGRA — Integration of New competencies for educators and Top-middle managErs to forster GRowth for Adult education
Project number: 2024-1-SK01-KA122-ADU-000223830
Organisation: IKReON, Ružomberok, Slovakia
