The project Offering Quality Education to Adults (OQEA) was developed by the Slovenian Institute of Adult Education as one of the levers in the development of quality in adult education in order to advise educational organisations how to self-evaluate their own quality and to determine the ways for future development. After an organisation joins the project, we guide it through the analysis of their own visions and the values they wish to develop in adult education. We also help the organisation carry out an in-depth evaluation of quality levels it is already achieving and planning measures for its continuous development in order to satisfy the requirements of the organisation itself, adult participants in education, its business partners and the environment in which it operates. Our work together lasts for approximately two years, and the basic role of the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education is guidance and training, while each educational organisation forms a quality group, which carries out individual procedures in quality evaluation and development inside the organisation.

We started to develop the project in 1999, and the first adult education organisations joined us in 2001. It is anticipated that by the year 2006 around 60 organisations will join the project. The usefulness of the OQEA model in practice is being constantly evaluated. The development work of the SIAE and the organisations that are part of the project is supported by the ministry of Education, Science and Sport.