Shape the future of European education and lifelong learning!

“Is it time to increase focus on learning processes and attitudes?”
“How to ensure that assessment supports learning?”
“Shall bring informal learning into the policy spectrum?”

The Learnovation 24 statements are online for voting: take 10 minutes and contribute to the consultation on the future priorities to increase creativity and innovation in European lifelong learning setting.

The statements are available here: Consultation: the Learnovation imperatives for change.

Thanks for your participation!

27 May, Brussels: Learnovation Open Forum

Learnovation Open Forum, 27th May, Brussels: an agenda for change in Education and Lifelong learning beyond 2010 proposed in Brussels

The Learnovation Open Forum entitled “Removing the barriers to creativity and innovation? Listening to stakeholders’ voice”, was held on 27 May 2009 in Brussels, gathering the main European networks in the field of innovation and ICT for Education and Training. This event was organised by the Learnovation Roundtable with the support of the European Commission as a contribution to the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, and resulted in the launch of the “10 imperatives for change” to make European education and lifelong learning a lever for innovation.

More and more observers are claiming that, despite the attention given by EU policy makers to creativity and innovation, as testified by the fact that he year 2009 has been dedicated to these issues, education and training systems are not facilitating enough the emergence of creative skills and attitudes but rather are often hindering their potential.

Given the importance of this issue for the Lisbon Agenda and for a new citizens-centred development of the European Union, the Learnovation Roundtable (www.learnovation.eu) has organised a conference aimed to explore what are the expectations and concerns of the different stakeholders in relation to barriers to creativity and innovation for learning, with a special attention to ICT use.

The conference counted with the participation of prestigious speakers, such as Ms. Odile Quintin, Director General for Education, Training, Culture, Youth (European Commission), Mr. Roberto Carneiro, former Minister of Education of Portugal (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and Mr. Karlheinz Brandenburg (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology), ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and one of the fathers of mp3 technology.

During the event, a list of priorities for action was discussed by more than 90 participants and “10 imperatives for change” were produced, that will be proposed to relevant EU and national policy makers and will represent the starting point of a broad societal consultation on the desired future of European education and lifelong learning.

Learnovations Reports available for download!

“ICT, Lifelong Learning and Innovation” reports analyse innovation paradigms within different formal and informal learning contexts. Six of these 12 reports are now published and available for download.

Please download the reports.

Policy documents and papers on learning and innovation

The LEARNOVATION Stakeholder Roundtable is working on commenting the following policy documents:

- “Migration & mobility: challenges and opportunities for EU education systems”
- “Schools for the 21st century”
- “E-skills for the 21st Century: Fostering Competitiveness, Growth and Jobs”
- “Communication on the year of Creativity and Innovation

Second Learnovation Stakeholders Roundtable Seminar

The Second Learnovation Stakeholders Roundtable Seminar took place on Thursday the 6th of November in Brussels, with the presence of the nine networks supporting Learnovation, plus represenatives from the European Commission, from the Austrian and Slovenian Representations in Brussels and from other actors and networks active in the field.

The seminar was the moment to make the point on the advances of the Learnovation work and to present and discuss them, especially in support of the 2009 Year of Creativity and Innovation.

The results of the Seminar will pe published soon.

Compendium of Good Practice Cases of e-learning. Cases selected by Members of the ICT Cluster

The cases collected in this Compendium are examples of good practice in e-learning in Europe. They were all selected by countries participating in the ICT Cluster and Peer Learning Activities managed by Directorate General Education and Culture (DG EAC). In total, 43 cases were selected and described.

Please access the report here.

LEARNOVATION at the Slovenian Presidency Conference in Brdo, 8-10 April 2008

The LEARNOVATION operation was presented at the Slovenian Presidency Conference “”Promoting Innovation and Creativity: Schools’ Response to the Challenges of Future Societies” in Brdo, 8-10 April 2008

WIth this conference, the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU wished to give a boost to the changes needed for schools, including kindergartens, to be better able to promote creativity and innovative potential from the very beginning of learning processes.

The spirit of the conference was perfectly in line with the vision of LEARNOVATION, whose potential contribution was mainly specified towards (a) the potential for the engagement of a broad base of stakeholders from across Europe and (b) the quest for a new “balance” between the need to adopt innovation and continuous change practice while we deploy reliable quality assurance (learning achievement) assessment frameworks.

First Learnovation Open Session, Brussels March 08

On the 5th of March 2008, representatives from more than 40 key EU and national lifelong stakeholders gathered in the European Commission to discuss a new vision of innovation in learning, that embeds ICT for learning as well as lifelong learning in a comprehensive and future-oriented perspective, and to share ideas and proposals on how to bring the Learnovation initiative forward.

During the first Open Session of the Roundtable, which included participation of key actors such as representatives of three Directorates General the European Commission (DG Education and Culture, DG Enterprise and Industry, DG Information Society), the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, the Slovenian Presidency, the Learnovation Manifesto was presented, the policy priorities for action for 2008-2009 were discussed, and the working methods of the Roundtable were shared with the participants.

Launch of Learnovation in eLearning Conference in Lisbon, Oct 07

The LEARNOVATION Stakeholders Round Table idea was launched on the 16th October 2007 in the context of the eLearning Conference organised within the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, and will be open to discussion and integrations until the 20th of November.