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Transcript of EUCIS-LLL "Lifelong Learning, a Vision to support the future of EU tools" November 2014
Building a citizen’s voice on education and training issues
“Tools to support a vision” CEDEFOP Conference, 27 November 2014 Audrey Frith, Director of EUCIS-LLL
European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning
36 European organisations in education, training and youth
A unique European platform on Lifelong Learning
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
About us
More than 45 000 educational institutions & associations
... covering formal, non-formal and informal learning
... reaching out millions beneficiaries
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
Lifelong Learning:
a concept underpinning EU
policies, tools and programmes
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A growing interest
UNESCO
Influential: Faure and Delors Reports
“learning throughout life” is the key to a better future
•A systemic view
•Centrality of the learner
•Motivation to learn
•Multiple objectives of education policy
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A growing interest
EC MEMORANDUM & COM. ON LIFELONG LEARNING (2001)
“All learning activity undertaken throughout life, with the aim of
improving knowledge, skills and competences within a personal, civic,
social and/or employment-related perspective”
Lisbon Strategy (2000-2010)
Europe 2020 Strategy: EU growth strategy 2010-2020
Education and Training 2020 (OMC)
“Making a European area of lifelong learning a reality” is a strategic
objective
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
Why is LLL so important?
SOME ELEMENTS
•Digital revolution: widened access to knowledge (CE, Opening up
Education) and need to update skills
•More and more learning is taking place outside of formal education:
non-formal and informal learning (PIAAC, Eurobarometer 417)
•Ageing population and later age of retirement
•Modern life: no longer a school, work, retirement pattern
•Skills gaps in the knowledge society: up skilling the population
•European project: mobility, recognition, transparency
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
Why is LLL so important?
ESSENTIAL ISSUES
•How to we manage transitions?
•To enable learners to become lifelong learners (competences)?
•What reforms & tools to provide them with flexible and life-long
pathways?
•If more and more people are skilled: what share of wealth?
•How to reach out to the low-skilled who benefit less from the learning
opportunities?
Some of these questions underpin most of current tools & reforms
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Why is LLL so important?
IMPACT FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTORS
•Be open and prepared to deal with non-traditional publics with the
development of new pedagogical strategies and assessment methods,
the creation of guidance services, adapted teacher trainings, etc.
•To provide more flexible learning paths: diversification of training supply
including part time studies or work based routes, development of
distance learning, etc.
•To have more openness towards non-formal and informal learning with
the increased transparency and recognition of learning outcomes.
•Develop greater partnerships with public authorities, students,
employers, employees, other educational providers
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
Concrete tools to support this approach
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EU policies, programmes and frameworks
EU FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS
•LO approach (CEDEFOP, EU frameworks)
•EQF for LLL and NQF developments
•Validation of NFIL (2012 Council Recommendation)
•ESCO
•EQAVET, ESG
•ECTS, ECVET
•Europass…
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
State of play in Europe
SOME PROGRESS
• LLL comprehensive strategies
LLL most cited positive impact of ET2020 (EASQ Survey)
• Development of EQF/NQFs
• Development of validation systems
Inventory: from 50% to 75% MS have developed stratregies
• Increased use of learning outcomes approach
From transparency and mobility tools to transformative tools
Push for change towards more learner-centred systems
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State of play
CHALLENGES FOR LLL
•No recognition of non-formal education and non formal learning
•Belief that education = to seat in a classroom
•Bottlenecks in the systems
•Lack of LLL guidance
•Resistance to change
•Belief that equity undermines quality
•Keeping the priviledges of the sectors
•Difficulty to implement cross-sectoral approaches
•Organisational dimension: i.e. impact of institutional changes in the new
Commission?
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Future of EU frameworks & LLL vision– CEDEFOP Conference, 27-28 November 2014
State of play in Europe
GAPS: FROM IDEA TO ACTION
•Lack of political will: inertia (no implementation of policy priorities)
•Resistance from educational actors
•Lack of use by final beneficiaries (Eurobarometer 417: 34% heard
about one of the tools)
•Funding: who pays?
Momentum to move a step forward (EASQ = of LLL ?)
This requires to revisit the vision in order to know where we want
to go: LLL is still relevant (UNESCO 2013)
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What’s next?
Recommendations on the
future of EU tools
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Ways forward: towards a shared vision
LLL: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
•Momentum: build on the success of past programmes, tools and
policies and move a step forward
•The reasons underpinning the need for LLL are still relevant and
even more in times of crisis
•EU added value: forward-looking & long-term vision
•Comprehensive approach: not focused on employability only
•Vision shared by citizens and educational actors versus a technical
approach for experts
•Easier to communicate than an area of skills and qualifications
(tools versus vision) to bridge the gap with citizens/learners
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Ways forward: towards a shared vision
LLL: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
ET2020
•Synergies between:
Institutions (i.e. DG EMPL and DG EAC)
Indicators and policies (i.e. RLP Bologna expert group and EQF
advisory group)
Programmes (i.e. EQF and Erasmus+)
•Consistent teminology: better understanding and more coherence:
From competences to skills
From learning to education
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Ways forward: towards a shared vision
LLL: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
ET2020
•Data collection: i.e. the cost of not having alternative routes to access
qualifications (if no validation)
•Operationalisation: from policy priorities to national roadmap with
financial incentives
•Monitoring: possible use of system indicators (i.e. validation)
•Partnerships: stronger involvement of stakeholders including civil society
in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies
•EU Funds: links with the ESF, Erasmus+ as incentives
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Ways forward: towards a shared vision
LLL: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
Role of the Member States
•Differs according to sectors but strong normative function
•Political impulse to have standards (LO) in all sectors
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LLL-HUB
VISION
Creating a space for lifelong learning
OBJECTIVES
•Foster a shared meaning of lifelong learning
•Enable cross-sectorial, multi-stakeholder cooperation
•Structure the first transnational policy learning on EU LLL
strategies based on genuine research and dialogue at
regional/national level
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LLL-HUB
3 PHASES
LLL-Labs, LLL-Forums and LLL-Agora
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LLL-HUB
PILOT COUNTRIES
Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium and Poland
TIMELINE
LLL-Labs: until 31 January 2015
LLL-Forums: Spring / Summer 2015
LLL-Agora: 11-12 February 2016
www.lll-hub.eu
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To Conclude
We need a vision: towards the lifelong learning area
We need the political will to move towards this vision with the
participation of all stakeholders
Thank you!
Audrey Frith
www.eucis-lll.eu