LLinE Lifelong Learning in Europe

Papers and posters

for the LLinE Conference

The papers should be written with attention to one of the themes below. Papers should be evidence based and future oriented.
The posters will be displayed and presented at the Conference site. You will have 7 minutes to explain your poster and be available for questions after that.
Send an abstract of max. 250 words of a paper or a poster by August 30, 2005
to the address eeva.siirala (at) kvs.fi


Employability
The goals set by the Lisbon strategy require a greater percentage of people to be employable and employed in Europe than is now the case. How should the providers of lifelong learning meet the situation of a greater variety of learners, of a greater demand and variety of required skills, a greater variety of languages and working cultures in working places? How should learners meet this situation? How well prepared is the European learning society?
What learning is in the interest of the state/ employer / employee / individual people to pay for and give the time for? What is the role of trade unions?
What will the scene be in five years’ time? In ten years?

Active Citizenship
For various reasons people have resigned from political life, which is clearly seen e.g. in voting statistics. What are effective and desirable forms of active and democratic citizenship now and in future, and how could they be enhanced? What is the role of lifelong learning in that development? How can learners be reached? How well prepared is the European learning society?

Social Inclusion
The more we are aware of minorities, the better we can make our societies accessible to them, and the more we can also benefit from the diversity of perspectives. Why are extremists and populists gaining ground with slogans of discrimination, exclusion and setting up walls? Where are we on our road to social inclusion and cohesion? What is the most human way of striving for it? Assimilation, integration, segregation? What can learning do in preparing people to avoid confrontations in multicultural environments? How can we learn to respect ‘the other’?

Personal Fulfilment
Without finding out personal creativity and satisfaction producing activities, people may find it difficult to develop fully as personalities, to find a deeper meaning in life. The wider benefits of lifelong learning should not have a narrow goal of providing employable people for the labour market but a wider purpose of enriching people’s life, enabling them to reach out, find and use the full capacity of their mind and personality. Lifelong learning for personal fulfilment has also a great impact on people’s interest in learning itself.