Lifelong learning for employability and a sustainable future
The Lillehammer Lifelong Learning Conference 2027 explores how lifelong learning is designed and used in practice to help people, workplaces, and communities respond to major societal changes. The conference focuses on how learning can support employability, participation, and inclusion across the life course.
In a context shaped by digital and green transitions, demographic change, and evolving competence needs, the conference highlights practical approaches to competence development and reskilling across education and working life. It also examines how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are influencing learning and work, and how they can be used to support learners and organisations.
The conference places strong emphasis on practice, experience, and results. It focuses on what works, for whom, and in which contexts, and explores how learning opportunities can be developed and sustained through collaboration across sectors. While maintaining a strong connection to work and employability, the conference also addresses wellbeing, participation in society, and learning in communities as part of lifelong learning.
The conference brings together leaders and educators, learning designers, practitioners, employers, researchers, and policy actors, and particularly values contributions based on practical experience, including work with adult learners, workplace learning, and community-based learning.
Conference themes and topics
The conference is structured around a set of interconnected themes that shape the programme as a whole. They are addressed across keynote sessions, partner-led contributions, and individual presentations and practice-based sessions throughout the conference.
The final structure of parallel sessions will depend on submitted contributions.
People, inclusion, and learning pathways
Work, skills, and competence development
Technology, AI, and digital transformation
Policy, quality, and societal impact
