Annual Adult Education Conference 2025 – seen by participants as one of the best

The Annual Adult Education Conference (AAEC) 2025, held on 21 and 22 October, offered opportunities for networking and professional exchange. At the now well-established venue for our professional meetings over the last four years – the Grand Hotel Bernardin in Portorož – almost 300 of us gathered. As in previous years, the gender balance again leaned heavily towards women, with men accounting for only about 16% of attendees.

Over both days, we were united by the slogan Dedicated. Thoughtful. Courageous. This was selected even before the programme was finalised, yet every contribution aligned with it. Several speakers even referred to one of the words from the slogan in their presentations – most often, courage.

Read more in the SIAE Newsletter here.