Welcome to the first international conference on Lifelong learning for Competitiveness, Employability and Social Inclusion. This conference aims to address the issue of using learning as a tool to increase the competitiveness of organisations worldwide and improve the employability of our citizens.

In today’s difficult economic times achieving and maintaining competitiveness is key. Management literature suggests that competitive advantage built on knowledge and skills is less visible to competitors and thus more difficult to imitate, therefore providing a base for a more robust advantage. Thus the focus of the conference is learning for competitiveness in order to build and sustain a more robust economy.

Themes
- University industry interface in learning
- Applied learning
- Models of incorporating work practices into third level education
- E-learning/mlearning.
- work based learning
- Models for encouraging companies to adopt learning as a competitive tool.
- Social inclusion in learning for competitiveness
- Informal learning
- Learning in networks and CoPs

Call for papers Issued: 23rd May 2011
Closing date: 15 August 2011
Notify authors: 1st September
Final papers (Camera Copy): 30th September
Conference Date: 11th November 2011

Location: University of Craiova, Romania