FLECSLAB - Flexible Learning Communities Supporting Lifelong Learning Across Borders

Sofinancira Evropska unija
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  The project offers a framework and a well-tested tool for implementing and exploring the potential of the European University Alliance to create a comprehensive offer of LLL, building on existing components, i.e. curricula. Building on the development of the EUTOPIA Learning Communities EUTOPIA ALLIANCE EUTOPIAFLECSLAB will create a specialised instrument for all higher education institutions, going beyond the demand of those students who only want a degree, and opening up to so-called non-modular students looking for additional international learning experiences. This tool will include guidelines and training modules to support academic staff in dealing with adult learners. With the pilot and the lessons learned from the EUTOPIA project, the next objective aims to develop and implement a business model that will enable European universities to maintain and further develop their objectives for quality LLL provision. Due to its focus on active learning and innovative transdisciplinary themes, FLECSLAB will actively engage stakeholders working in the social context of learning communities and interested in working with HEIs to respond to the needs of citizens and Lifelong Learning (LLL) practitioners. The building blocks of FLECSLAB are the connected learning communities that bring together the best practices of open and active learning in EUTOPIA. Academics build on traditional forms of learning and organise short-term learning experience opportunities that students can enrol in either as part of their curriculum on the way to or alongside their degree. Despite its successful implementation and promising results for curriculum development in the European University Alliance, EUTOPIA is not designed for LLL. This is a gap that FLECSLAB addresses. Building on the developments in a large sample of linked learning communities, FLECSLAB offers a unique opportunity to introduce a curriculum based on proven concepts that it offers to the wider higher education sector and that will meet the needs of the so-called non-traditional students identified in the learning community ecosystems. FLECSLAB is the first project to offer the HE sector such an intensive set of examples and to extrapolate the tools and business models to all other transnational alliances willing to open up their curriculum offer to non-traditional learners in the field of Lifelong Learning.
 
Tomaž Deželan
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Manca Drobne
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
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FLECSLAB project concludes work with multiplier event in Brussels
The FLECSLAB project team presents the most important outcomes and the potential of EUTOPIA for lifelong learning
FLECSLAB Advisory Board discussed business models and the potential of lifelong learning in EUTOPIA Connected Learning Communities
Discover the main findings of the FLECSLAB project and EUTOPIAs’ lifelong learning potential
FLECSLAB - testing business models using the example of the EUTOPIA learning communities at the University of Ljubljana
FLECSLAB Education Expert Committee workshop with EUTOPIA Learning Community Leads
The FLECSLAB project team meets at UPF
FLECSLAB Second Education Expert Meeting Workshops

Strokovni odbor za izobraževanje FLECSLAB se je 27. in 28. oktobra 2022 udeležil delavnic, na katerih je razpravljal z vodji prvih štirih opredeljenih tem in posledično učnih skupnosti EUTOPIA v projektu:

FLECSLAB 2nd Transnational project meeting

During EUTOPIA week hosted by University of Ljubljana, FLECSLAB partners finally met face to face in Ljubljana and the project officer Milena Sitar Matelič from Slovene National Agency had an opportunity to witness the work done under less than a year under the project. Tomaž Deželan briefly summarised the activities in the project from July 2022 to October 2022. As part of the UL work, the FLECSLAB website was set and updated. In WP1 - Toolbox for Lifelong Learning - semi-structured interviews were conducted with the leaders of the four learning communities and the expert panel was involved in a workshop held in Brussels 28-29 October 2022.

FLECSLAB Follow-up meeting

Partners have met remotely on the first transnational meeting on 5 July 2022. First, the current state of affairs regarding the administrative part of the project and the activities carried out during this period was presented. A preliminary monitoring report was prepared for the Slovene National Agency, addressing most of the weaknesses identified during the project application and explaining how the implementation of the project will be monitored in the further phases.

FLECSLAB KICK OFF meeting

In November 2021, six founding partners of EUTOPIA Alliance were awarded in the framework of Erasmus+ (KA220- HED - Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education) for the project "Flexible LEarning Communities Supporting Lifelong Learning Across Borders'" (FLECSLAB), which was submitted to the National Agency (NA) for European Community Programmes and International Mobility Programmes in Slovenia. On February 3, 2022, the kick-off meeting of the partnership (Univerza v Ljubljani, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, The University of Warwick, CY Cergy Paris Université, Universidad Pompeu Fabra and Goeteborgs Universitet) took place online and was hosted by the University of Ljubljana as project coordinator.

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