LLinE Lifelong Learning in Europe

Workshops

Workshops will cover themes such as

1. Legislation, entitlements, policy and trends

- Is LLL a (human) right? Whose right?
- How do official documents, legislations and strategies regard LLL?
- Is there a gap between rhetoric and reality?
- What does the right mean in terms of legislation? What is the support of social partners?
- Is right to LLL an enticement?
- Equity aspects?
- Consumer rights and positive rights
- What about when rights collide with finances?
- Participation in LLL: European trends
- The role and responsibilities of different players in LLL: public sector, business and industries, voluntary organisations, individuals

2. Inclusion, advocacy and empowerment

- The state of lifelong learning in Europe:
o Is it accessible to everyone?
o Disadvantaged groups?
o What can be done to improve the situation?
- How can LLL promote inclusion, empowerment, and democratisation?

3. Key transitions across the lifespan

- How does LLL influence an individual’s lifespan: is there potential for emancipation?
- Transitions from education to working life; working life to retirement; one workplace to another; employment to unemployment and vice versa; unemployment / employment to entrepreneurship