Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning does not represent only an aspect of education and training; but it becomes day by day a fundamental principle of active participation of the individual in the society, throughout his lifetime. Adult training is to be found in all the curricula targeted at re-activating the national economy, and it aims at restructuring the current system of training institutions, completing it with necessary components to forecast and achieve in time professional re-orientation and training of the labour force for the activities that use the new technologies and request creativity, innovation and high professionalism.

The objectives of Romanian Society for Lifelong Learning meet the demands of the Memorandum concerning lifelong learning, elaborated by European Commission in October 2000, a communitarian document which takes over from European Counsels in Feira and Lisbon the mandate to implement lifelong learning for all, and tries, by its activity, to answer the 6 key messages in the Memorandum.

Key messages:
1. guarantee universal and permanent access to education to train and refresh competencies necessary to a sustained participation for the society of knowledge;
2. visibly increase the level of investment in human resources in view of taking advantage of Europe's most important value, its people;
3 develop teaching and learning methods and contexts necessary to insuring the continuum of lifelong learning;
4. significantly improve the means in which the participation and results of education are understood and assessed, especially with respect to non-formal and informal learning;
5. insure conditions so as every person can easily access quality information and advice concerning educational opportunities all throughout Europe and all along their lives;
6. provide lifelong learning opportunities in the most possible vicinity of the beneficiary, within their own communities and supported by ICT equipment, wherever necessary.