From awareness to action in lifelong learning

Service centre Lifelong Learning Limburg

Contents

1. Background of lifelong learning in NL

2. Educational perspective:Service centre Lifelong Learning Limburg

1. Background

From 2005: Focus on lifelong learning

Governmental decentralisation

Need for regional infrastructure

Regional servicenetworks (Leerwerkloketten)Public employment services, regional government, educational partners

1. Background

Aim: Participation rate of labour force is 80% in 2016

Challenge in LimburgFaster demographic ageing than in other parts of the Netherlands

What to do?• Focus on sectors of growth• Increasing labour force mobility• Reducing youth unemployment

1. Background

It all starts with:

AWARENESS

2. Educational perspective

Service centre Lifelong Learning LimburgCooperation between educational partners

• Stimulating active career planning• Recognition of prior learning (RPL)• User centred ePortfolio• Flexible education• Learning network

2. Educational perspective

Target groups:

Employers, employees, jobseekers, intermediaries, educational institutions

Target sectors:• Engineering• Healthcare• Leisure