Seminars
Seminar 5
Maximising employment potential: developing local approaches to lifelong learning
Thessaloniki, Greece, 21–22 April 2005
This theme explored the horizontal linkages between local actors and how they can best collaborate towards a common purpose of promoting local development through learning. It also looked at how locality-wide coalitions come together, and work together to organise learning that meets the needs of all groups in their area. We wanted to find out what is the ‘local’ added value: how can local collaboration around learning and education genuinely respond to the demands of learning in a given labour market? The purpose was also to assess what the X-factors are that help local economies become ‘success stories’ thanks to coherent lifelong learning strategies.
Seminar documents
- Agenda [pdf, en, 24kb]
- Background note [pdf, en, 38kb]
Examples of good practice
- Wallonia, Belgium – Centres de compétence [pdf, en, 30kb]
- Emmendingen, Germany – Lernende Region Landkreis Emmendingen [pdf, en, 27kb]
- Vilvoorde, Belgium – Pact of Vilvoorde [pdf, en, 30kb]
- Vorarlberg, Austria – Bildungspartnerschaft Vorarlberg [pdf, en, 26kb]
- Wartburg, Germany – LernLandschaft Wartburgregion [pdf, en, 26kb]
Seminar presentations
- Lifelong learning and the local: context and questions (Peter Lloyd) [ppt, en, 84kb]
- Local development, social capital and lifelong learning (Tom Schuller, CERI/OECD) [ppt, en, 141kb]
- Economic Development through learning strategies: The Emilia Romagna paradigm (Danielle Mazzonis, Formez) [ppt, en, 452kb]
- Blackburn with Darwen: Skills for social transformation [ppt, en, 1.41mb]
- Educational Partnership Vorarlberg (Martha Müller) [ppt, en, 3.73mb]
- City of Tampere [ppt, en, 10.9mb]
- The Learnshop Berlin, Neukölln: a local approach to lifelong learning [ppt, en, 4.59mb]
- Approaches to lifelong learning within the London Riverside area (Dave Grange, London Riverside Ltd) [ppt, en, 869kb]
- A local approach to permanent learning: Servicio de mediación para el aprendizaje (SMA) [ppt, en, 980kb]
