BELGIUM

Commission “Education tout au long de la Vie” du Conseil interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique

Contact details:

Rue d’Egmont, 5

1000 Brussels

Tel. +32 2 504 92 91
Fax +32 2 502 27 68

http://www.ciuf.be/cms/etalv/index.php

President: Françoise de Viron Francoise.deViron@uclouvain.be

Contacts:

Cecile Sztalberg Cecile.Sztalberg@ulb.ac.be

Jean-Marie Dujardin jean-marie.dujardin@ulg.ac.be

Bernadette Naedts naedts@ciuf.be

Background

• The Commission started in 2003. It currently counts 9 members (representatives of each university)

Focus

Any issue related to University Life Long Learning and Adult education

Core activities

• The Commission ETALV is one of the seven Commissions set up by the Interuniversity Council of the French Community of Belgium.  So it allows her to make, via the Interuniversity Council, proposals to the Minister of Higher education on any ULLL-issue.
• The Commission ETALV is a place for discussion, dialogue and coordination of the ULLL issues and activities
• The Commission ETALV elaborates on a consensus basis proposals and recommendations to the Universities Authorities and Minister of Higher Education, in the field of ULLL and Adult Education. 
• The Commission ETALV is managing the process of some non-degree programmes public funding (Art.20]
• The Commission has launched and pilots a interuniversity platform for the harmonisation of RPL (Recognition of formal-informal and non-formal learning) practises, funded by the European Social Fund.
• The Commission gathers about 10 times a year.

Current issues

• Harmonization of ULLL-practises within all universities of the French Community of Belgium (common regulation on access, common use of terminology, funding, common certificates – non degree LLL programmes) 
• Revision of current legislation related to ULLL

Documents attached

• Sept 2008 Powerpoint F de Viron à Liège “education 2010”
• Communiqué de presse et dossier de presse du lancement de la plateforme