SereniSleep

About SereniSleep

Why a project about sleep?

Because sleep is where learning is quietly won or lost. A sleep-deprived adult learner is not lazy or disengaged — they are cognitively under-resourced. Memory won't consolidate, attention frays, emotions run hot. Educators witness this every day but are rarely equipped to name it, let alone act on it.

SereniSleep — Unlocking Deep Rest for a Healthier Tomorrow — is a small-scale Erasmus+ partnership (KA210-ADU, 2025–2026) that turns the science of sleep into practical, inclusive, classroom-ready pedagogy for adult educators across Europe.

Sleep is the most underestimated lever in adult learning. SereniSleep exists to put it back in the educator's hands.

What we set out to do

  • Equip adult educators to recognise sleep deprivation as a learning barrier and respond within their professional boundaries.
  • Co-create an evidence-based, multilingual training programme rooted in real research from Spain, Bulgaria and Serbia.
  • Centre the learners with the fewest options — migrants, shift workers, caregivers and socio-economically disadvantaged adults.
  • Leave behind open, free, reusable resources that outlive the project through EPALE and the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.

Our values

  • Evidence over assumption. We build from data we gathered ourselves, not stock wellness advice.
  • Inclusion by design. If a strategy doesn't work for a night-shift caregiver or a recently-arrived migrant, it isn't finished.
  • Educators, empowered. We stay firmly on the pedagogy side of the line — supporting learners without medicalising them.
  • Open and lasting. Everything we create is free, openly licensed and designed to be adapted and reused.

Meet the partners

Three organisations, three countries, one question. MOGA ZNAM TVORIA (Varna, Bulgaria) coordinates the project, working with Kreativna stanica / Creative Station (Serbia) and ABARKA ONGD (Oiartzun, Basque Country, Spain).

  • MOGA ZNAM TVORIA

    Varna, Bulgaria

    MOGA ZNAM TVORIA — Varna, Bulgaria (Coordinator)

    Specialists in STEM, health education and civic engagement. As project coordinator, MOGA ZNAM leads the sleep-science foundation of the programme and hosted the in-person training in Varna.

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    Kreativna stanica / Creative Station

    Belgrade, Serbia

    Kreativna stanica / Creative Station — Serbia

    Experts in pedagogical innovation and experiential learning for adult education. Creative Station leads the behaviour-change and learning-design blocks and the project's capacity-building activity.

    Website: Kreativna stanica / Creative Station
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    ABARKA ONGD

    Oiartzun / Basque Country, Spain

    ABARKA ONGD — Oiartzun / Basque Country, Spain

    A cooperation-and-development NGO working on inclusion, lifelong learning and well-being for vulnerable adults, including migrant women through its EGG programme. ABARKA leads the inclusion modules and hosts the Online Training Platform at curso.abarka.org.

    Website: ABARKA ONGD

The essentials

Programme
Erasmus+ KA210-ADU — Small-scale Partnerships in Adult Education
Project reference
2025-1-BG01-KA210-ADU-000352792
Duration
2025–2026
Countries
Bulgaria · Spain · Serbia (research also reached Moldova)
Target group
Adult educators, trainers and adult-education staff, and the vulnerable adults they serve
Platform
curso.abarka.org (Tutor LMS)

Funding acknowledgement

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Bulgarian National Agency — Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Project reference: 2025-1-BG01-KA210-ADU-000352792