The 39th eucen Conference organized by the University of Lapland took place on 27-29 May 2010 in Rovaniemi (FI).
The Conference centred around new challenges which university continuing education will face over the next decade. In particular, it focused on how to develop and promote restorative education and practices through social, economic and cultural environments in harmony with the physical environment. In the future, it was suggested, lifelong learning will be better connected with the socio-economic and environmental issues affecting our planet and how universities can facilitate innovation and change through a process of lifelong learning.
eucen and the University of Lapland together organised and managed the conference which was attended by more than 120 experts from all over Europe and beyond.
Proceedings of the 39th eucen Conference. More...

The 37th eucen Conference took place on 26-28 March 2009 in Leuven (BE). 
University Lifelong Learning (ULLL) and University Continuing Education are emerging concepts and realities in European countries. As reported by the BeFlex report, the development of ULLL is slow: even if 56% of universities have a LLL policy or strategy, the implementation and the practice are complex and diverse. More...

The 36th eucen Conference took place on 6-8 November 2008 in Tallinn (EE). More...

The 35th eucen Conference took place on 5-8 June 2008 in Edinburgh (UK).
Democratic citizenship focuses on the rights, responsibilities and roles of citizens at the local, national and global level. However, defining concepts, policies and strategies to support good practice in the area of democratic citizenship is no easy task. European citizenship is made up of a set of fundamental rights and obligations enshrined in the Treaty of Rome. The Maastricht Treaty (1992) aimed to strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of the nationals of its Member States through the introduction of a citizenship of the Union and the Treaty of Amsterdam (1999) extended citizens’ rights/obligations against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation and affirmed the commitment of each Member State to raise quality and free access to education at national level. More...

The 34th eucen Conference took place in November 2007 in Hanover (DE).
LLL and employability, even though subject of a European strategy, must be promoted in the regional context. Consequently, more emphasis has been given to the "university third mission" during the last decade that is the knowledge transfer via UCE and consultancy for the benefit of regional development. More...

The 33rd eucen Conference took place on 15-17 March 2007 in Ljubljana (SI).
It was time for University Lifelong Learning (ULLL) to be higher on the agenda of the Bologna process. So far the stress had been on putting the elements of the Bologna reforms in place – it was the time to make some work to promote ULLL. More...

eucen's 32nd Symposium and 4th Project Forum was organised by the department of Continuous Education of the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris.
The programme included workshops on Quality, Research, the Bologna reforms and Consumer Affairs. The Keynote speakers of the conference were:
-Prof Suzi Halimi (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3: "Accreditation of prior experiential learning: an asset for social cohesion?"
-Ginette Nabavi, member of the European Commission. More...

The 31st eucen Conference took place in May 2006 in Gdynia (PL).
This conference was for eucen its 15th birthday conference.
The title of the Conference, "Universities as a driver for regional development: LLL in a knowledge-based society", was topical and pertinent: the programme was full of experts and the participants list was full of expertise and experience. More...

The 30th eucen Symposium and 3rd Project Forum was held in Rome (IT), in November 2005, at LUMSA.
During the Symposium several projects were presented (UNFOLD, REFINE and RELOAD) through meetings and workshops. More...

The 28th eucen Symposium took place in November 2004 in Kaunas (LT).
This was the secondeucen Project Forum where we brought together meetings of current eucen projects and dissemination events from other European projects together with a workshop on a key European topic. More...