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Pushkin Leningrad State University in Saint Petersburg has ─ for the last ten years ─ organised an annual International Conference on Lifelong Learning and Continuing Education for Sustainable Development. It is the only annual research conference on lifelong learning for Russian-speaking countries, and is also attended by a small number of non-Russian-speaking delegates. Organised in partnership with Russia’s National Commission to UNESCO, the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Eurasian Economic Community, the North-West Department of the Russian Academy of Education, the UNEVOC National Centre in the Russian Federation, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, the conference on 1─3 June 2012 attracted 150 researchers. There were big delegations from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, and single representatives from Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ireland, Cyprus, Turkey, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
In his keynote speech, entitled “A new research agenda for lifelong learning”, Arne Carlsen, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), stressed the need for more research on a value-based concept of lifelong learning, on the implications of a sector-wide approach, on cooperation between areas such as health, work, environment, training and education, and on linking lifelong learning to sustainable development.
Other keynote speakers included Mr Nicolai Lobanov, Director of the Research Institute For Social, Economical And Pedagogical Aspects Of Continuous Education at Pushkin Leningrad State University. He spoke about the “Historical stages in the development of lifelong education”.
More than 200 research papers were presented in parallel sessions and roundtable discussions. More information on these papers
