On 29 May Cedefop and the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) in cooperation with the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU organised the policy forum “What role for Community Lifelong Learning Centres: the potential of one-stop-shops for preventing youth at risk from disconnecting”.

The event focused on how Community Lifelong Learning Centres can meet individuals’ multiple  and complex needs (e.g. education, health, psychological) through cross-sectoral cooperation. This was based on the LLLP briefing paper Community Lifelong Learning Centres a gateway to multidisciplinary support teams.

The need promoting cross-sector cooperation and joint service delivery was highlighted by several speakers as well as the need for an integrated funding model. Many speakers and participants stressed the importance of parity of esteem between different learning pathways – formal and non-formal, vocational and academic – and the possibility to move smoothly between them in order to prevent early leaving from education or training.

A number of resources were presented at the forum, including the new edition of the Cedefop VET toolkit for tacking early leaving.

Source: Lifelong Learning Platform