The Laboratory of Biographical Learning and Transformative (BTLEARN) Adult Education of the School of Humanities aims to conduct interdisciplinary qualitative research in areas related to the process of learning during adulthood, as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of educational programs and activities regarding any type of formal, non-formal or informal learning activity. The laboratory investigates biographies, in the context of the dialectical relationship of learning and transformation – modification of personality and worldview, through in-depth analysis and understanding of biography as unfolded by the persons themselves.

It also focuses on the biography of the Hellenic Open University as socio-economic changes, inflation of academic qualifications, and the shrinkage of the welfare state have had a profound impact on the university's orientation, as its undergraduate and graduate programs attract a diverse student body. In this context, the laboratory attempts to outline the profile of the institution's sudents as well as that of its graduates. e-mail: btlearnlab[at]eap.gr