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Seminar „Making Lifelong Learning a Reality“, Cologne, 7th to 9th March 2004Summary
Plenary Session Presentations
Programme As our present-day society changes into a knowledge society, it becomes clear that everyone needs to retain the capability of learning beyond their schooldays. There is increasing importance in the continuous assimilation of knowledge and the capability of using new media. The need for a re-orientation in education is becoming apparent and education systems in all states are developing. In this context, questions in particular for the quality of education, standards, required competencies, curricula, etc. become more and more exigent. Many are convinced, that these systems will only be sustainable and viable over the long-term by structural innovations, and that this will be the only way to guarantee access to education for everyone. The concept of Lifelong Learning intends to find new approaches for these problems. The target is to promote personal development, active citizenship, the potential to be employed as well as social cohesion. Consequent implementation of Lifelong Learning should help people to succeed in tackling professional and social changes and demands, to improve their chances in the labour market and to learn to take their lives into their own hands. Since the Lisbon Council in 2000, Lifelong Learning has become an important part of the education-policy landscape in Euorpe. In November 2001, the European Community Commission published the Communication Making a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality, which will be realised in the scope of the European 2010 work programme. The EC commission has expressed several times, that it definitely supports the measures of the member countries to implement Lifelong Learning and that it promotes the structured and continuous co-operation at EC level. The seminar Making Lifelong Learning a Reality“ has been conceived to be a specialist seminar. By comparing the different countries, it will give international experts a forum to incorporate the central issues into the overall context of Lifelong Learning and to discuss national and European approaches. All workshop groups will be governed by the superordinate question Which structures are necessary to successfully implement the reforms in education policy in the single countries?“ The following are the themes of the single workshops: Education Consulting, establishing a new infrastructure for learning which facilitates continuous learning, certification of informal llearning, interlocking educational domains, quality assurance, open learning environment, e-Learning, development of SMEs and of networks. The seminar is expected to deliver impulses and approaches to implementing pilot projects in general and professional education, and in the scope of the development of coherent strategies for Lifelong Learning.
The workshops will offer a podium for the presentation of existing activities, initiatives and programmes. In order to ensure a good ratio between national and European approaches to the discussion, European experts from different European educational contexts wil be invited to the floor in the individual workshops. The support programme of the BMBF “Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks” will be given as an example to present sample approaches to the individual themes. The “Learning regions” are understood as the most important project regarding the implementation of Lifelong learning. Within their structures and networks, it is possible to prove innovative educational measures and to anchor structural innovations for the first time. Furthermore, the workshop will give opportunities to present experiences and examples of good practice regarding selected topics from the European R3L support programme. The R3L programme is an initiative of the EC Commission which aims at the further development of good practices, the support of a fruitful trans-national exchange of experience and the consitution of European networks between Learning regions in order to put the European co-operation in the field of Lifelong Learning on a sound and sustainable basis. The results of the discussions will form the basis for further events or conferences in the scope of the implementation of the 2010 work programme. |
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