The European Civil Society Platform, EUCIS-LLL

The European Civil Society Platform was born in 2005 as a response from civil society organisations to the defining and implementation of a European education and training policy in the framework of the Open Method of Coordination.
Before the establishment of a permanent Platform, in 2001 already, several lifelong learning networks had come together to share their experience and expertise and to react to the Europe-wide consultation on the Lifelong Learning Memorandum. This cooperation became then systematic, especially on basic skills as key competences for life. The success of the conference “Skills for Life as the Key to Lifelong Learning – Towards Achieving the Lisbon Strategy” in May 2004 motivated the associations within the Platform to continue their cooperation. Today funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme, EUCIS-LLL was acknowledged by the European Commission in 2009 as a “unique representation” of lifelong learning of the various education and training actors organised at EU level, and in 2011 as “in a unique position to support European networks in education and training to work collectively at European, national and local levels and to contribute to a structured policy dialogue within the open method of coordination in education and training”. Gathering 31 member organisations, EUCIS-LLL is today the most legitimate interlocutor of the European institutions in the field of lifelong learning.

• EUCIS-LLL Presentation brochure
• EUCIS-LLL Presentation (prezi format)
  EUCIS-LLL Presentation (prezi format) in French
  EUCIS-LLL Statutes 2012
  EUCIS-LLL Internal rules 2012.