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Innovative Structures to Improve Lifelong Learning –
A Social Innovation Process
The example HESSENCAMPUS
Challenge Social Innovation
Vienna 20th of September 2011
Antonius Schröder
20th of September 2011
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Content
1. Lifelong Learning:
A “Grand” Challenge for Education and Training
2. Paradigm Shift to a Strict Learners Perspective
3. HESSENCAMPUS: A Social Innovation Process
4. Conclusion and Challenges
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Content
1. Lifelong Learning:
A “Grand” Challenge for Education and Training
2. Paradigm Shift to a Strict Learners Perspective
3. HESSENCAMPUS: A Social Innovation Process
4. Conclusion and Challenges
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Lifelong Learning: A European Strategy
Lifelong Learning …
 as a middle and long-termed competitive factor (Lisbon Strategy)
 indicates a comprehensive alignment of learning opportunities and
support structures
 has to be an overarching structural principal of the education
system in a whole
 is a growing demand at every single person
 has to be realised on the regional level.
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Participation of Adults in Education and Training
(2008)
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Source: Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/education/data/main_tables
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Participation of Employees in Continuous Education
and Training (2005)
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Source: Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/education/data/main_tables
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Content
1. Lifelong Learning:
A “Grand” Challenge for Education and Training
2. Paradigm Shift to a Strict Learners Perspective
3. HESSENCAMPUS: A Social Innovation Process
4. Conclusion and Challenges
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Paradigm Shift
 from an institutional to a strict learner’s and learner and learning
process perspective
 new overall and comprehensive structural principles of the education
system
 organised as an overarching regional-local social innovation process
 improving, changing, and creating new social practices concerning social
roles, relations, norms and regulations,
 going beyond existing borders and pure networking
 following the aim of a strict user focus instead of the traditional institutional
focus.
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What Means Learner Perspective?
 the individual personality of a learner and the learning process
starting and reference point for every learning offer,
 usable when and where needed, fulfilling specific learner needs, taking
into account and accepting formal, non-formal and informal
competences, supporting educational and professional transmissions
 oriented at four guiding dimensions of LLL for adults
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a comprehensive understanding of learning
the learners environment
the learners biography
the adult learner personality
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LLL as a Holistic Social Innovation Process
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LLL has to be seen as a social innovation process going beyond a
systemic perspective and traditional innovation concepts (following
Howaldt 2010), characterized by
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coordination and mediation between various different groups of stakeholders,
interdisciplinarity, heterogeneity, recursivity and reflectivity of the processes of
implementation
emphasis on historical, cultural and organisational preconditions,
increased involvement of users/citizens in processes of “co-development”,
systemic perspective on innovation
optimising research, development, production and marketing simultaneously in
an interactive process,
a kind of “hybridization” at the boundary between society (practitioners/users)
and science (experts/developers).
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Content
1. Lifelong Learning:
A “Grand” Challenge for Education and Training
2. Paradigm Shift to a Strict Learners Perspective
3. HESSENCAMPUS: A Social Innovation Process
4. (Success Factors and) Challenges
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HESSENCAMPUS:
Regional-local Coordination of Lifelong Learning
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HESSENCAMPUS: initiated by the Ministry of Culture in the German federal
state of Hessen in 2006 in order to further develop adult education
 through a binding cooperation of mainly public educational institutions
 in a new and innovative regional-local partnership and structure
(„HESSENCAMPUS“ )
 and under different local framework conditions
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HESSENCAMPUS is based
 on public responsibility for education of the Land Hessen and its local authorities
 regional demands, potentials and actors
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HESSENCAMPUS follows the basic principle of a „development in
partnership“
 cooperating “at eye level” and not by top-down orders
 based on an agreement signed by all players involved
 providing a common ground and a cautious formulated framework of development
aims and procedures.
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4 I Process of Social Innovations (Hochgerner)
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Idea:
 quantitative and qualitative improvement of Lifelong Learning for adult people
 LLL has to be improved on the regional-local level in partnership
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Intervention:
 funding, scientific support, core coordination structures, normative settings (4
dimensions of LLL, 3 integration levels), common framework
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Implementation:
 public responsibility, open innovation process, development in partnership, new
structures
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Impact:
 learners: improvement of quantitative and qualitative participation, flexible
learning opportunities along the learning pathways (including all types of
learning)
 regions: education and human resources as a regional-local key competitive
factor
 institutions involved: professionalization, efficiency and effectiveness
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Implementation:
Process Oriented Innovation (Open Social Innovation)
The implementation process of HESSENCAMPUS is characterised by
 a quick start with experiments and trials within a „corridor of
possible developments“
 new possibilities to get hold of and mobilise potential learners
 an increased potential for education to become a “location factor”
for integrated regional-local development
 facilitating integrational developments
 by connecting institutions which used to be strictly separated,
 by creating synergies in spending resources, and
 by addressing the employees’ professional competences, creativity,
and willingness to cooperate
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HESSENCAMPUS Profile
specific regional profile
Pedagogical
Integration
Dimensions of LLL:
learner personality
competencies for life management
social environment proximity
learning biography
Organisational
Integration
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Regional
Integration
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HESSENCAMPUS:
Regional-Local Corporate Coordination and Development
Regional Responsibility for Education
Ministry of Education and Culture
Level of the Land Hessen
Local Responsibility for Education
Head of district authority,
mayor
adult education and schools
vocational schools
Integrated Education Offers:
pedagogical, organisational, regional integration
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Local Level
Institutional Level
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Impact:
More than 200 Actors
21 of 23 local authorities are within
HESSENCAMPUS with about 200
local actors:
79 schools (mostly adult and
vocational schools
51 training institutions
25 employers associations and
employment agencies
13 regional or local administration
departments
and others
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Impact: Different Operational Fields and Products (I)
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HC Darmstadt-Dieburg
Bildungsberatung
Bildungsprämie
SLZ
ProfilPASS
Kompetenzerfassung
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HC Dreieich
Selbstlernen
Prüfungszentrum
SLZ
Bildungsberatung
IPS (Innovative Produktionsschule)
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HC Frankfurt
Assessment Berufsorientierung
Qualifizierung Seiteneinstieg Erzieher
Qualifizierung Erzieher-Musik
Bildungsberatung
SLZ
Deutsch für Schule und Ausbildung
HC Fulda
Bildungsberatung
Mehrgenerationenarbeit
Schuldenprävention Schüler
AusbildungPlus benachteiligter
Jugendlicher
Blended Learning
HC Groß-Gerau
Bestandsaufnahme Bildungsberatung
Bestandsaufnahme Angebote
Bildungsberatung
online Wegweiser Bildungsberatung
SOL
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HC Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Bildungsberatung
Bildungsmonitoring
Bildungsprodukte Kurse
Blended Learning
Lernmodule BS Energie
Querschnittsthema Europa
Weiterbildung HC intern
Sprache und Medien für
Migranten
HC Hochtaunuskreis
Bildungsberatung
Bildungsatlas
Jugend-Schlüsselkonzept
Zentrum neue Lernkulturen
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HC Kassel
PE (Personalentwicklung)
Bildungsberatung
Klimaanpassungsakademie
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HC Limburg-Weilburg
Bildungsberatung
Bildungsmesse
Handelsfachwirt
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HC Main-Kinzig
Metalltechnische Ausbildung
Pädagogischer Tag
Stützkurse
Studientag
Lerncoach-Ausbildung
Aktionstage Bewegung
SLZ
Bildungsberatung
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HC Main-Taunus-Kreis
Basisqualifizierung E-Trainer
Aufbauqualifizierung E-Trainer
SLZ
Bildungsberatung
ProfilPass-Workshop
community moodle
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HC Mittelhessen
Fachdidaktik
Bildungsberatung
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HC Hanau
Bildungsberatung
Mittlerer Abschluss
SOL
neue Lernarrangements
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Impact: Different Operational Fields and Products (II)
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HC Odenwaldkreis
SOL
Berufsfindung - Ehrenamt
mit Power zum schulischen Erfolg
Neue medien intergenerationell
Active Board Schulung
Bildungsgipfel
HCO-Gesamtkonzept
Bildungsberatung
Regionalforen (Schulen, Freie Träger,
Industrie, Handel, Gewerbe)
Gesundheitstag Lehrer
Gesundheitstag Schüler
Wiedereinstieg Ü50
Pädagogischer Tag
Neue Medien EDV Schulung (Moodle,
Sharepoint, Office 2010)
bilinguales Bildungsangebot von der
KITA bis zum Abitur
HC Offenbach
Hasa-Kurs Blended Learning
Consulting Assistant
Bildungsmarketing
selbstgesteuertes Lernen
Bidlungsberatung
Kompetenzfeststellung
Bewerbungstraining
Sprachstandserhebung
Deutschkurs
HC Rheingau+Taunus
Bildungsberatung
SOL
IdA
Vielfalt Fortbildung
Lernprojekt Energiewelt
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HC Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Regionaler Weiterbildungsbericht
Bildungsberatung
selbstgesteuertes Lernen
Social Casting Schüler
berufsbegleitende Ausbildung Erzieher
Social Casting Erwachsene
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HC Vogelsbergkreis
Bildungsberatung
Hamet
Schulabschlüsse
SLZ
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HC Waldeck-Frankenberg
Deutsch für Azubis
Bidlungsberatung
Lounge Veranstaltungsreihe
Ausbildungsabbrüche
SGL (selbstgesteuertes Lernen)
Website
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HC Werra-Meißner
Weiterbildung Bedarfsermittlung
Bildungsberatung und Kompetenzermittlung
Lehrkräfte Datenbank
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HC Wiesbaden
Bildungsberatung
Übergang allg. + berufl. Bildung
selbstgesteuertes Lernen
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Content
1. Lifelong Learning:
A “Grand” Challenge for Education and Training
2. Paradigm Shift to a Strict Learners Perspective
3. HESSENCAMPUS: A Social Innovation Process
4. Conclusion and Challenges
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HESSENCAMPUS as a Comprehensive Approach
HESSENCAMPUS as a „holistic interpretation of innovation“ impacts
(Hochgerner 2011):
 all types of innovation: products, processes, marketing, organisation, roles,
relations, norms, values
 all functional systems: economy, culture, politics, law
 all intervention levels:
 micro level: behaviour of learners
 meso level: structural and institutional changes
 macro level: legislative framework, Lifelong Learning System
 integrative and binding cooperation going beyond networking: more than
complementary, subsidiary or supporting cooperation
 setting of a new cultural framework: common orientations, objectives and
their practical implementation
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Social Innovation Process for Regional Lifelong
Learning
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HESSENCAMPUS
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within a process of collective creation (Crozier/Friedberg 1993) this social innovation
process finds its challenges and success within
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is a system changing approach and
a social innovation process
in correspondence to the regional-local development and
overarching cross-regional support and legislation structures
binding structures going beyond pure networking (accepted from all the involved actors),
(beyond law, not yet reflected by law)
with increased demands for the organisational model and the management of this improved
networking (Howaldt 2010):
heterogeneous structures, depending on the demands and framework of the local areas,
different, heterogeneous innovation processes at the local level
but a common framework and overarching support structure and some common product
developments
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Social Innovation Research Topics
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The four most important social innovation research topics
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Implementation of new regional-local coordination and learning
structures to improve quantitative and qualitative participation at
Lifelong Learning on the regional-local level
Comment
One of the most successful and far-reaching themes of the EU
“Lifelong Learning” (LLL) has to be combined with (action) research
on the parameters of a successful social innovation process for a
(better) implementation of LLL at the regional-local level, to the
profit of the people and the regional development. How can
sustainability of the innovations be ensured right from the beginning
of the innovation process? What different kinds of social innovation
processes can be identified? What kinds of selection processes are
occur and become relevant during the social innovation process? How
do power structures influence the results and the process of social
innovation (balance of different interests and power)?
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Thanks for your attention!
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Antonius Schröder
20th of September 2011