LLAKES Research Seminar, Wednesday 13 June 2012, 3.00-4.30 pm, Room 537, Institute of Education

 “… and for all my sins they gave me a mission”: Recession, Skills, Lifelong Learning and Employability within the Europe 2020 agenda and Education and Training 2020 strategy.

 This seminar will focus on the European Union (EU) policy agenda for Education, Training and Lifelong Learning, within the context of the Europe 2020 strategy and, subsequently, that of  “Education & Training 2020”. 

Europe 2020 is the EU’s growth strategy for the coming decade, and is a major EU initiative, involving a series of integrated public policy developments. It represents the main response of the EU Member States to the impact of the recession, and the strategy’s Education and Training (ET) dimension is considered to be a clear indication of the increasing internationalization of the EU’s overall Education Policy.

The seminar will examine the strategy’s ET benchmarks; composite indicators; policy tools (such as the Joint Assessment Framework and its policy areas), and will assess the current “state of play” of its impementation. Findings on the socioeconomic outcomes of Lifelong Learning in EU will be discussed, with reference to evidence-based policy making in Education, Training and Lifelong Learning. Consideration will also be given to the relationships between Education, Training, Lifelong Learning, Reskilling and Employability.

Nikos E. Papadakis is an Associate Professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete. He is also the Director of the Centre of Political Research and Documentation of the Department of Political Science.

 He is a Special Adviser to the European Commission. Additionally he is a member of the European Commission Standing Group on Indicators & Benchmarks; of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Development Programme/Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform; and of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic NARIC. He is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London.

 Attendance at the seminar is free, but please book your place via llakesevents@ioe.ac.uk