Are we prepared to offer what each individual needs, made to measure, to ensure the professional development and the success of individuals? How can universities ensure quality and innovation in meeting individual needs?

Included in the programme of the conference there was a long session to prepare proposals for the next Calls on the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP).

PROGRAMME

Thursday 05 November 2009

15:00 - 15:45     Welcome for newcomers meeting

15:45 - 18:30     Study Visit to Nässjö Learning Centre

18:30 onwards Formal Reception . Professor Michel Feutrie, President of EUCEN and Professor Eva Björck-Åkesson, Dean of School of Education and Communication

Friday 06 November 2009

09:00 - 11:00     Welcome speech . Professor Thomas Andersson, President of Jönköping University

Keynote 1: Professor Mohamed Chaib, Encell, Jönköping - The Meaning of Quality Assurance in LLL

Keynote 2: Professor Frank W. Rennie, UHI Millennium Institute (Scotland) - Quality in distance and Open University: Where do we learn?

11:00 - 12:30       Coffee and Workshops:

Workshop A1 - Swedish Learning Centres: Quality and Innovation, meeting the individual demands.  Yvonne Lindbom.

Workshop A2 - Quo Vadis VNIL? Observatory on the validation of non-formal and informal learning. Discussion of the key aspects arising from the OBSERVAL project. Oliver Janoschka and Mireille Pouge.

Workshop A3 - Quality of training programs. Kauko Hämäläinen and Kari Seppala

Workshop A4 - VALUE (I) Perspectives on Volunteering & ULLL from across Europe. Sue Cross and Nick Ockenden.

12:30 - 13:30     Lunch 

13:30 - 15:00            Proposals preparation workshops:

Workshop B1 -Preparations of proposals for the EU programme of LLL.

Workshop B2 - Preparations of proposals for the FP7 Calls.

15:00 - 17:30            Coffee break and workshops:

Workshop C1 - Swedish Learning Centres: Quality and Innovation, meeting the individual demands.  Yvonne Lindbom.

Workshop C2 - Recommendations from the BeFlex Plus project and the Leuven concerence: Next step.  Jean-Marie Dujardin.

Workshop C3 - Indicators of LLL and Regional Development. Alfredo Soeiro and Dermot Coughlan.

Workshop C4 - VALUE (II) Volunteering & ULLL - Exploring themes: Older learners. Employability. Sue Cross and Raymond Thomson.

20:00 - 22:00            Conference dinner 

Saturday 07 November 2009

09:00 - 10:30     General Assembly and Elections

10:30 - 11:00     Coffee Break

11.00 - 11:30     Keynote 3: Lene Oftedal, DG EAC – Higher Education and Erasmus Unit

11:30 - 12:30     Policy discussions 

12:30 - 13:30     Lunch 

14:00 - 14:30     Conclusions from the workshops on Friday

Closing and Presentation of next conferences

 14:30 - 15:30     National Networks Meeting 

* The "Quo Vadis VNIL? Observatory on the validation of non-formal and informal learning. Discussion of the key aspects arising from the OBSERVAL project" workshop was organised by the project OBSERVAL (project number 2007-1987/001-001) co-funded by DG EAC.