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With financial support from the European Union, Turkey is currently implementing a Technical Assistance Project on Promotion of Lifelong Learning. The aims of this project are ambitious, namely to establish an institutional framework of lifelong learning in Turkey in line with EU practices, by supporting individuals’ access to education, which in turn shall foster a more qualified labour force in which value is accorded to every kind of learning.
An International Lifelong Learning Conference was organised from 13 to 15 November 2012 in Istanbul to raise public awareness for this project and to build capacity of related institutions, as well as to promote the lifelong learning approach based on EU practices and to provide an opportunity for discussing innovative learning methods, knowledge-based economies, the approach of recognition of prior learning, counseling and guidance services.
At the core of the Conference were four plenary sessions, focusing on Approaches in Lifelong Learning, Recognising Prior Learning, Lifelong Guidance and Employability, and Innovative Learning Techniques and Methods. Mr Jin Yang, Senior Programme Specialist at UIL, held a presentation on “Learning Cities and Lifelong Learning”, elaborating on the concepts of lifelong learning and learning society as first set out in Learning to be (Faure) and Learning: The Treasure Within (Delors).
Mr Mustafa Kemal Biçerli, General Director, Ministry of National Education General Directorate for LLL, expressed his support for the UNESCO Global Learning Cities Network initiative and pledged to include building learning cities in Turkey’s national LLL strategy.
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