LIFELONG LEARNING – A SHORT VERSION. Children’s University – regional view of competence development of young people

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The key factor in the process of innovativeness development is competences. In order to even out the development level which differs from region to region, and to stimulate the European economy as a whole, experts emphasise the need to intensify actions taken by academics and recommend that the concept of lifelong learning (LLL) should be implemented to the widest possible extent, indicating which of the competences should be considered as the key ones. At the same time, the technological leap will convert the labour market and the occupational inclusion of society. The desired employee is a knowledge-based employee, also an e-leader, who combines business, analytical and IT competences. Slightly surreptitiously, in the context of competence management under the LLL concept the authors of the study bring to the foreground education of children and youths – which is a “short” version of long-life learning. In this way, they want to underline the role of education that takes place outside school (or in cooperation with the school), in the special form of non-formal education, i.e. at children’s universities. They present the research findings in the area of economic, financial and managerial education based on the example of the programme implemented at the University of Szczecin. The study also describes the innovative case of young project managers as an example of learning by playing, competences appreciated also in the world of adults.