CEV 2006 - April ( Rome, Italy) - Volunteering in a Lifelong Learning Policy

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:

Identifying, assessing and recognizing skills and competences learned through volunteering

Common projects with schools, universities, business, etc. on the mutual recognition of these skills

Project that opens alternative learning pathways to people that have not followed a formal education or that have difficulties to comply 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

Final report