Please find featured below and attached details and a call for proposals for a conference entitled, Lifelong Learning Policies and Adult Education Professionals-Contextual and Cross-Contextual Comparisons between Europe and Asia on 16–17 February 2018, Julius-Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany.

The members, Scientific Committee of the conference are:

• Prof. Regina Egetenmeyer, Julius-Maximilian-University Würzburg

• Prof. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

• Prof. Mike Osborne, University of Glasgow, coordinator ASEM-LLL network 4 and Director of CR&DALL
• Prof. Ekkehard Nuissl, German Institute for Adult Education, coordinator ASEM-LLL network 3

The conference will be organized in collaboration with the ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning (ASEM LLL Hub). In particular, research network 4 on “National Strategies for Lifelong Learning“ and research network 3 on “Professionalization of Adult Teachers and Educators in ASEM Countries” are involved.

Keynote speakers are:

• Prof. Han SoongHee, Seoul National University
• Prof. Maria Slowey, Dublin City University
• Dr. Lesley Doyle, University of Glasgow
• Prof. S.Y. Shah, International Institute for Lifelong Education, Delhi


Abstracts should be sent by 2nd November 2017 to [email protected]. They should not exceed 500 words.

The conference does not have a fee and is sponsored by DFG (the German Research Foundation),  DAAD (the German Academic Exchange Service) and Erasmus+. The conditions of sponsorship require all those attending to hold a PhD.