Learning is more than ever important and valuable. People learn throughout their lives: formal learning at educational institutes, non-formal in training and at work and everywhere informal. People are encouraged to invest in their potential.
The changing socio-economic, socio-cultural and technological landscape is changing and moreover is the speed of this change increasing. The security of a job-for-life is changing into the security of job-hopping. Also several professions are getting obsolete and replaced with new professions, often with a higher qualification, arise. These ever faster going developments in the network society requires that the prevailing systems of professional training and education are adjusted and innovated.
It is almost impossible to predict what a young person needs to learn for life, when we consider that school going children will most likely have to work until 2080 or later and new-born will live into the new century.
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| Start | End | Abbreviation | Project Title |
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| 2018 | 2020 | Bridge+ | Building up Regional Initiatives to Develop Skills-based GuidancE: A digital multi-actor approach |
| 2017 | 2019 | VPLB3 | 3rd VPL Biennale |
| 2018 | 2020 | ValChild | Validation of non-formal and informal learning in childminding |
| 2018 | 2020 | LEVER UP | Valuing informal learning and transversal competences acquired through volunteering to increase employability, social responsibility and mobility |
| 2005 | 2007 | VPL2 | Managing European diversity in lifelong learning |
| 2007 | 2010 | OBSERVAL | European Observatory of non-formal and informal activities |
| 2008 | 2010 | RPLO | Recognition of Prior Learning Outcomes |
| 2009 | 2011 | ALLUME | A Lifelong Learning University Model |
| 2010 | 2012 | RVA-NS | Linking recognition practices to qualifications Frameworks: North-South exchange of experience on national developments |
| 2011 | 2014 | ALLinHE | Access to Lifelong Learning in Higher Education |
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