A small municipality in the Fortore valley is set to coordinate a European adult-education network focused on ecological transition and digital inclusion.
According to a report by NTR24, Foiano di Val Fortore is the lead and coordinating organisation for “Future Ready: Sustainability and Digital Inclusion in Adult Education,” described as an Erasmus+ 2026 cooperation partnership. The details reported below come from that NTR24 report; independent project records or municipal documents confirming approval, partner responsibilities and funding allocations were not available in the validated research.
What has been reported
The NTR24 report describes “Future Ready” as a project concerning adult education, ecological transition and digital inclusion.
Key points reported:
- Coordinator: the Municipality of Foiano di Val Fortore
- Partnership: five organisations from Italy, Spain, Sweden and Portugal
- Total budget: €250,000
- Duration: 24 months, from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2028
These project-specific details, including the budget and timetable, rest on the NTR24 report alone and were not independently confirmed through a separate project record.
What the project plans to do
The reported work programme combines research, curriculum development and hands-on testing.
Planned activities reportedly include:
- Analysis of sustainability practices
- Needs assessment for adult learners
- Development of a digital curriculum
- Living Labs
- Pilot teaching modules
- Hackathons and Design Thinking activities
The research does not confirm whether the curriculum, pilot modules or other planned outputs are yet publicly available.
A four-country meeting route
The project reportedly includes four transnational meetings, beginning in Foiano di Val Fortore and continuing in Sweden, Portugal and Spain.
For readers in Campania, the starting point matters: the first meeting would place Foiano di Val Fortore, in the province of Benevento, at the centre of the network before the work moves to the other partner countries. The identities and specific roles of the partner organisations were not independently confirmed.
Understanding the Erasmus+ framework
The project is reported as a KA220-ADU initiative. That framework is consistent with Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships, which form part of Key Action 2, “Cooperation among organisations and institutions,” under the 2026 Erasmus+ Programme Guide.
Erasmus+ says Cooperation Partnerships support transnational cooperation, the development and transfer of innovative practices, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level. In other words, they are designed to strengthen organisations’ capacity to work together across borders and share new approaches, rather than to fund a single local course in isolation.
That context helps explain the structure reported for “Future Ready”: a multi-country partnership, a two-year timetable, joint curriculum work and repeated transnational meetings.
What to watch next
For now, the public picture is limited to the NTR24 report and the general Erasmus+ framework. Useful next signals would be publication of partner names and responsibilities, confirmation of funding allocations, dates for the four transnational meetings, and public access to the needs assessment, digital curriculum and pilot-module results.
If those materials appear, adult learners, educators and local organisations will have a clearer sense of how the sustainability and digital-inclusion work can be used beyond the partner network.
