The Organising Committee

• Chairman: Vyacheslav Skvortsov, Rector of the Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin, Ph D (Economics, Education), Russia
• Co-Chairman: Nikolai Lobanov, Director of the Research institute of social, economical and pedagogical problems of continuous education, the Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin, Russia
• Co-Chairman: Arne Carlsen, Director for International Affairs, Chairman of the ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Secretary: Marina Kormilitsyna, researcher of the Research institute of social, economical and pedagogical problems of continuous education, the Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin, Russia

Topics related to the conference theme

• Theoretical, methodological and axiological problems of lifelong learning and continuous education for sustainable development: new values of Education for Sustainable Development; mission of lifelong learning and continuous education in the context of global and regional problems of the society/
• Development of international and national systems of lifelong learning and continuous education in the context of Convergention theory.
• Role and place of the Bologna process in the international practice of continuous education.
• Forming of state system of continuous professional education: features of national systems.
• Subjects of continuous professional education: their legal status, economic abilities and social strategies.
• The citizens’ right to continuous professional education: social prerequisites on the way to the society of continuous education.
• Place and role of religious culture in lifelong learning and continuous education.
• Continuous professional education as innovative educational system. Abilities of continuous professional education in ensuring sustainable development of state and society: theory and practice.
• Lifelong learning and continuous education as the most important feature of lifestyle and social dominant of human professional activities.
• Lifelong learning and continuous education as the condition and factor of professional and career development.
• Continuous professional education as the way of social protection of working population from economic crisis.
• Creative pedagogy as the condition for forming a new type of professional in the system of continuous professional education.
• Methodological and theoretical issues of synthesis of professional, didactic and methodological conditions of organization of continuous professional education of teachers as the precondition of lifelong development of their pedagogical competences.
• Pedagogical innovations as the condition of sustainable development of the system of lifelong learning and continuous education; forming of pedagogical culture and innovative thinking of a teacher of the 21^st century.
• Place and role of theory and practice of Defectology in practical implementation of concepts of lifelong learning and continuous education
• Models and technologies of lifelong learning and continuous education for selected professional and social groups of population.
• Problems of quality of lifelong learning and continuous education for sustainable development: quality of education as a factor of sustainable development, priorities of policy for assuring lifelong learning and continuous education quality, lifelong learning and continuous education quality management, quality evaluation of lifelong learning and continuous education process and results.
• Strategic partnership of state and businesses in lifelong learning and continuous education system development.
• Bachelors, Masters and specialists in the national and international labour markets: problems of demand and offer.
• Problems of continuity and linkage of each of the subsequent stages of continuous education: pre-school upbringing, school education and upbringing, primary professional education, secondary professional education, higher professional education, supplementary professional education, improving qualification and re-training.
• Lifelong learning and continuous education for elderly people.
• Lifelong learning and continuous education for people with limited abilities.
• Libraries, museums, theatres, philharmonics, creative unions, clubs, etc. as centers of lifelong learning.
• Lifelong learning and continuous education as the subject of research: state of the art and perspectives.
• Continuous professional self-education is the additional unused economic and social resource of the society.
• Private educational establishments in the system of lifelong learning and continuous education: state of the art and perspectives.