The Lifelong Learning Network for Sustainable Development focuses on the key issue of the ‘knowledge triangle’ of education, research and innovation, for regional sustainable development. In the 3-LENSUS approach, Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) play a decisive role: As networks of existing formal, non-formal and informal education organisations, RCEs mobilise to deliver education for sustainable development (ESD) to local and regional communities. By building a network of European RCEs, 3-LENSUS will target a wide range of actors with a wide range of concerns, from different disciplinary backgrounds, but all sharing a common approach to sharing and learning. This will ensure a rich, multi-disciplinary network to ensure maximum potential for exchange, learning and transfer.

The project will create a prototype European Lifelong Learning Space for Sustainable Development consisting of a technological component (web-based network structure), an organisational component (actors, institutions and learning resources and their rules of interaction) and an educational component (learning activities, virtual and face-to-face, in the learning network), all publicly available free of charge in English.

Co-operation partners: Charles University in Prague, Open University of the Netherlands, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, University of Macedonia, Social and Economic Sciences, Regional Centre of Expertise Rhine-Meuse