From rhetoric to reality The objectives of the conference

In 2008, EUA drafted a Charter on LLL for European universities and governments. This Charter was adopted by European universities as a basis for further development and implementation of European strategies and presented to the ministers responsible for HE in November, in Bordeaux.

This new preoccupation of EUA extends what EUCEN has been promoting actively for years. But currently, as LLL is becoming a “fashionable issue” and a reference for national and European policies on education and training, the problem is that the concept of LLL is becoming progressively confusing.

EUCEN thinks that it is now time, on the basis of our common experience, of our initiatives and actions and the results of our projects, to contribute more concretely to the implementation of LLL strategies in HEIs.

That is the main objective of the EUCEN Conference in Lille in November: to move “from rhetoric to reality”. Our intention is to provide to all HE actors working on LLL a space:

• for exchanges and discussions on propositions and recommendations for further developments;
• for preparation of new projects for concrete actions to start/accelerate/deepen process at work.

Our intention is to demonstrate that in this moving landscape, EUCEN, thanks to its membership, can become the main contributor to making this powerful perspective a reality.