CEV General Assemblies > 2006 - April ( Rome, Italy) - Volunteering in a Lifelong Learning Policy
Volunteering in a Lifelong Learning Policy
28 -29 April, 2006, Rome, Italy
This General Assembly aimed in a first step to give an overview of the policy landscape on Lifelong learning both at National and European level: Representatives of the European Commission, the Austrian Presidency of the EU, of Italian Regional and Local Government and of Volunteer organisations spoke of their perspectives to make Lifelong Learning accessible to all and how volunteering contributes to a LLL-Policy.
In a second step, CEV member organisations presented and discussed good practices in the following fields:
In a second step, CEV member organisations presented and discussed good practices in the following fields:
- Identifying, assessing and recognising skills and competences learned through volunteering
- Common projects with schools, universities, business, etc. on the mutual recognition of these skills
- Projects that open alternative learning pathways to people that have not followed a formal education or that have difficulties in complying with the requisites of formal education in schools or of the labour market
- Efforts to influence the Life Long Learning Policy and to promote the role of non formal and informal learning within this policy
