The Renewed European Agenda on Adult Learning

This chapter focuses on the Renewed European Agenda on Adult Learning and elucidates the three substantive authoritative functions (i.e. legal, epistemic and procedural) it performs to ease European governance in the adult education policy domain. It traces the development of the European policy objectives in the area of adult learning and the ‘instrumentation’ used to achieve policy coordination and domestic adaptation in the member states. Focusing on the main governance mechanisms and policy instruments used by the European Union (EU) institutions within the Renewed Agenda, the chapter identifies the EU regulatory politics and its wealth redistributive capacity as the two distinctive qualities that differentiate European from global governance in the adult education domain.