Wednesday 9 June 2004

THEME: WORK-BASED EDUCATION AND ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE LEARNING REGION

Paper 1 = Commuity of Practice: Evolution and Development - Prof. Eamonn Murphy UL.

Paper 2 = The Learning Region's Role in Sustaining Competitive Advantage -
Paul O'Dowd, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology.

Paper 3 = The Individual Learner, Employability and the Workplace; a reappraisal of relationships and prophecies Prof. John O'Donoghue and Dr. Terry Maguire Centre for Advancement of Mathematics Education in Technology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics UL.

Paper 4 = Collaborative Learning in Large Organisations - Ronan Carbery, UL.

Thursday 10 June 2004

THEME: THE LEARNING REGION IN ACTION

Paper 5 = R3L - The Indicators Project: Prof. Norman Longworth

From the Age of Education and Training to the era of Lifelong Learning
in the Learning City/Region

The PALLACE Project – An Example

The INDICATORS Project A SOCRATES R3L PROJECT

The R3L ‘Indicators’ Project

The LILLIPUT Project

The PALLACE Project

The Grundtvig ‘LILLIPUT’ Project for Learning City Leadership

Paper 6 = The Role of The vocational Education Sector - Dr Kate Sankey, University of Stirling, Scotland

Paper 7 = The Role of the Further Education Sector - Dr. Peter Harizanov
/Jacques Digout, Grande Ecole Toulouse, France.

Paper 8 = The Role of Schools Sector - Roberta Piazza

Paper 9 = The Role of the Local Authority; Prof. M.J. Osborne, University of Stirling, Scotland (a) The University and Lifelong Learning
(b) Stirling - Becoming a Learning Region

Friday 11 June 2004

THEME : THE LEARNING REGION OF THE FUTURE THE WAY FORWARD

Saturday 12 June 2004

Special Interest & Project Group Meetings (if required)