Programme

10h00: Welcome and registration

10h30: Opening session

- Gina EBNER, President of EUCIS-LLL

- A representative of the City of Barcelona

- Message from Androulla VASSILIOU, European Commissioner for Education and Culture

11h00: Keynote speech on the social dimension of lifelong learning

- Ramón FLECHA, professor of sociology at the University of Barcelona

11h30: Thematic workshops

W1 - Active ageing and intergenerational solidarity, innovative partnerships for inclusive societies

The EU may launch a European Year on active ageing and intergenerational solidarity in 2012. What should be the priorities in the field of Education and Training? How to better share the innovative partnerships that already exist between non formal education, formal education, VET or higher education? What do these examples teach us? What are the limits? These transectoral partnerships are also very positive in other sectors of lifelong learning, how to encourage them at national and European levels?

W2 - Social innovation in LLL: new ways to provide new skills for new societies

This workshop aims to discuss about new ways to teach and learn in Europe that contribute to lifelong learner-centred systems. What are the tools to develop to achieve the permeability of education and training systems? Examples of innovative experiences to develop methods for assessing and validating knowledge as well as to provide an effective lifelong learning guidance to learners. What is the effect of peer learning and motivation on learning achievements? How to promote transversal competences (active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, learning to learn) in practice?

W3 - Fighting social exclusion and poverty: investing in LLL, the key to economic and social recovery?

Access to education and training is still unlike and many inequalities are still to be addressed. How to give basic skills to each citizen and to avoid dead ends? How to answer concretely to early school leaving? How to connect education, social or urban policies in practice? Investing in education and training is crucial for economic recovery but what choices have been made at national and regional levels? How can we measure the fact that investing in E and T has a high fiscal and social return? Could we change the way we measure education and training systems? What contributions could we make in the frame of the European Year 2010?

W4 - Mobility for all: removing the barriers, creating opportunities

How do we concretely encourage European networks to foster mobility for their volunteers and workers? How do we reach publics that do not benefit from mobility schemes? How to connect various initiatives? What issues should be addressed in the preparation of the European Commission’s “Youth on the move initiative”? How could we improve the actual EU programmes in the frame of the financial regulation review process? What concrete improvements could be made in the next generation of programmes? What are the tools in our hands (i.e. citizens’ initiative)?

13h30: Lunch

15h00: Thematic workshops (follow-up)

16h00: Coffee break

16h30: Plenary session: key messages from the workshops

17h00: Policy discussion: what perspectives for lifelong learning?

- Michel FEUTRIE, General Secretary of EUCIS-LLL

- Tapio SAAVALA, Head of Sector B2, DG Education Culture, European Commission

- José Mario RODRIGUEZ ALVARIÑO, Representative of the Spanish Ministry of Education

17h45: End of the conference