STAR Awards 2021 Nominations Open

• Health and Wellbeing

  This category is open to adult learning initiatives that support increased health and wellbeing for participants, for example mental health, physical activity and nutrition.

• Third-level Access and Engagement

  This category is open to adult learning initiatives that support educational equality by providing access to adult learners from low income backgrounds/learners with disabilities into Third-level programmes and/or initiatives that promote partnership between higher education providers and local communities

• Social Inclusion

  This category is open to adult learning initiatives that support all participants to effectively engage with their local community and contribute to social and cultural life, examples may include initiatives that provide participants with access to information and communication technologies.

• Sustainable Development through Education

  This category is open to adult learning initiatives that support one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through adult learning, these initiatives will promote a learners’ knowledge, growth and participation as they actively explore sustainable development through education.

• Learner Voice

  This category is open to adult learning initiatives that place Learner Voice at the heart of their work by building capacity of learners to increase their personal Learner Voice skills or using Learner Voice to shape their learning or the organisation’s governance structures. Examples of this may include training learners in advocacy or governance skills, building effective learner voice processes into quality assurance standards, or demonstrating clear evidence of change that directly responds to Learner Voice feedback.

The deadline to submit your nomination is Friday, 18th December.