15. 5. 2025
Date: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Time: 14:00 – 15:30 (CEST)
Organised by: 4EU+ Alliance & UNICA
Registration is open until Sunday, 1 June 2025.
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As highlighted in the European Commission's Union of Skills initiative, universities are expected to play a key role in upskilling, reskilling, and lifelong learning. Universities and European Universities alliances are now stepping up to offer more flexible, high-quality programmes for working professionals and adult learners, moving beyond the traditional approach where employers primarily drove workforce training.
This webinar, the third one in the EduLAB – 4EU+ Alliance Joint Education Webinar Series, aims to showcase successful strategies, case studies, and best practices from universities, university alliances and their business partners that have developed effective lifelong learning initiatives. Through concrete examples, speakers will share insights into collaboration with industry, digital learning innovations, micro-credentials, and cross-institutional cooperation, highlighting how universities can remain competitive in the lifelong learning landscape.
Éva Farkas
Researcher, Scholar (University of Szeged, Hungary) | Practitioner in Adult Learning and Education and Vocational Education and Training | Member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame
Éva Farkas holds a Ph.D. in Education and works as a teacher and supervisor at the Doctoral School of Education, University of Szeged, Hungary. She has 25 years of experience in adult learning and education policies in Hungary and Europe, with a special focus on the professionalisation of adult learning and education as well as validation of learning outcomes achieved in non-formal learning context. In the last decade, her research interests have focused on learning outcomes-based curriculum design and learning management in higher education and vocational training. In 2019, she was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.
Christian Tangkjær
Head of Continuous and Lifelong Learning at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christian Tangkjær has worked within university-based lifelong learning for many years — as a university teacher, programme director, and Vice-Dean at Copenhagen Business School, and now as the lead of the new strategic initiative at the University of Copenhagen. His expertise combines a pedagogical and didactical perspective on lifelong learning, a strategic focus on developing learning opportunities for professional practitioners and organisations, and a strong background in quality assurance. He was involved in establishing the Danish Accreditation Institution and has contributed to the international accreditation of Executive MBA programmes (AMBA) across Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa.
Jaroslav Pěnička
MC specialist of the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Charles University, Czechia
Prior to becoming a Microcredentials specialist, Jaroslav Pěnička worked as Head of the Centre for Lifelong Learning, an e-learning consultant, and academic teacher trainer. He also gained expertise as e-learning manager at the National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic. Jaroslav Pěnička has been actively involved in the 4EU+ 1CORE: One Comprehensive Research-Intensive University project and the 4EU+ Micro-Credential Integration (4EU+ MICI) project.
The event will offer participants an opportunity to:
Gain insights into how universities and alliances have successfully designed and implemented lifelong learning initiatives that meet the needs of diverse learners
Learn how higher education institutions are collaborating with business and industry to provide lifelong learning opportunities to enable upskilling and reskilling and align with real-world skills demands and workforce trends
Hear how universities are positioning themselves within broader educational and labour market ecosystems and how policy frameworks and strategies boost this transformation
Further details about the programme and speakers will be announced soon.
Anyone interested is welcome to participate, but we particularly encourage particular groups to attend:
University representatives (academic leaders, programme directors, heads of continuing education departments)
Lifelong learning and training providers
Policymakers and educational stakeholders
Members of university alliances and networks
Students and PhD candidates
Professionals and adult learners
Researchers in higher education policy and innovation
For questions and more information about the webinar, please contact: katarzyna.scieranska@adm.uw.edu.pl or laura.colo@4euplus.eu.
Watch the recordings of the previous webinars:
Enhancing University-Employer Collaboration to Equip Students with Next Generation Skills | 21 January 2025
The European Degree, Students’ Involvement and the Role of Alliances | 21 February 2024