In 2025, the European Commission launched a strategic package to respond to identified threats linked to Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, rising geopolitical tensions, state-sponsored hybrid and cyberattacks, sabotage targeting critical assets, foreign information manipulation and interference, and electronic warfare, by treating education and training as a key pillar. The Commission’s strategic package includes the release, in March, of the European Preparedness Union...
24 Feb 2026
In 2016, the Lifelong Learning Platform launched the Lifelong Learning Awards to celebrate creative and inclusive practices. The aim of the Lifelong Learning Awards is to give visibility to innovative practices taking place all over Europe in order to attract public attention on lifelong learning as well as to inspire new practices and policies. The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) will select each year its annual specific priority to push forward topics that are underrepresented on the EU...
23 Feb 2026
The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) addresses forward-looking issues in the field of education and training on an annual basis. This year’s theme will be explored during different events and meetings at the crossroads between the Cypriot and Irish Presidencies of the Council of the EU, while ensuring that the 2026 Annual Theme provides a new vision for one of the salient issues in education and training, which has been slightly overlooked in recent years: Reimagining validation and...
19 Feb 2026
The European Commission Communication on the Union of Skills launched in March 2025, announced the formation of a new governance body in education and training at the EU level, the European Skills High-Level Board. After much anticipation, on 29 January, Ylva Johansson (former Commissioner for Home Affairs) was appointed as the Chair of the European Skills High-Level Board . Her mission is also set-up according to the vision of the Union of Skills. The Lifelong Learning Platform welcomes...
2 Feb 2026
