LLL Universities & the European Policies on Social Investment - EUCEN Conference

Wed, 11/06/2014 to Fri, 13/06/2014, Warsaw,Poland, LLL Universities & the European Policies on Social Investment.
PRESENTATION
Given the magnitude of challenges faced by Europe today, including population ageing as well as economic crisis, but also increasing pace of changes due to globalisation and technological development, it is important to seek for human capital development that would enable Europe to face these challenges. The European Commission recently announced its Social Investment Package, which guides the policy responses for human development. Lifelong learning universities should take the conference as an opportunity to discuss and define their understanding of the "social investment".