Keynote
Atanacio Panahon II (Ateneo de Manila University/Philippines): Adult Education in Lifelong Learning and the Need to Professionalize the ranks of Stakeholders: The Asian Perspective (Text, Presentation)
 

Workshop I: Competency-Models for Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education
Susanne Lattke

Input
Jing-Ying Feng (China Youth University for Political Sciences/China): Competency Model of Teachers for Adult Education in a Transition Society (Presentation)

Cheng Min (East China Normal University/China): Future Competences of Teachers in Lifelong Learning (Text, Presentation)

Alain Kokosowski (University Versailles/France): Continuity and Disruption in the Competency Models for Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education (Presentation)

Workshop II: Teachers and Trainers between Responsibility and Accountability
Dirk Koob

Input
Le Hoang Anh Thu (University of Hoa Sen/Vietnam): the Effectiveness of Teaching Life Skills in Universities (Text)

Irina Maslo (University of Latvia/Latvia): New Professionals‘ Responsibility of Learning in Socio-Cultural Educational Contexts (Text)

Henning Pätzold (Freie Hochschule/Mannheim): Responsibility and Accountability: The unequal siblings (Presentation)

Uthaya Prakash (Huawei Technologies/Malaysia): Trainer’s Responsibility and Accountability: Setting the Right Mindset (Text)


Workshop III: Validation of Adult Educators' Competences
Anne Strauch

Input
Rigel John H. Rabago (Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges/Philippines): Towards total Quality: The trainer Qualification Framework of the Philippine Technical-Vocational Education and Training  (TVET) Validation of Adult Educator’s Competencies (Text)

André Schläfli (Swiss Federation for Adult Learning/Switzerland): Swiss National Standard Procedure for Validation of Prior Learning of Teachers and Trainers (Presentation)

Jan Böhm, M.A. (Technical University Dresden/Germany): Competence Pass for Adult Educator – to identify, accept and certificate adult educational competences (Text, Presentation)

Raluca Lupou (Romanian Institute for Adult Education/Romania): Validation of adult educator’s competences: European initiatives and challenges (Presentation)

Workshop IV: Effects of Teacher Training
Bjarne Wahlgren

Input
Raymond Setiawan (Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute/Indonesia): Effects of Teacher Training in Lifelong Learning: A Practice in Indonesia by Sampoerna Teacher Institute (Text, Presentation)

Annika Goeze (Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen): Case-based Learning with Digital Videos: Does it Promote the Professional Development of Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education? (Text, Presentation)

Khalid Mehmood (Lahore Punjab/Pakistan) Effective Teacher Trainings: Pakistani Needs of Future (Text)

Lea Lund Larsen (Danish School of Education, University  of Aarhus/Denmark) Effects of Teacher Training in Adult Learning: Insight from a Danish Research Project in Progress (Text, Presentation)

Prakash Santhanam: Professionalism in Adult and Lifelong Learning (Multicultural Environment) Malaysian Perspective (Presentation)

S. Y. Shah (International Institute of Adult & Lifelong Learning/India): Indian Perspective (Poster)

Susanne Lattke/Regina Egetenmeyer (German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE)/Germany): German Perspective (Poster)

Yang Ling (Macau University of Science and Technology/China): Chinese Perspectives (Poster)

Theo van Dellen (University of Groningen/Netherlands): Perspective from the Netherlands (Poster)

Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė (Vytautas Magnus University/Lithuania): Lithuanian Perspective (Poster)

Raluca Lupou (Romanian Institute for Adult Education/Romania): Romanian Perspective (Poster)

Irina Maslo (University of Latvia/Latvia): Latvian Perspective (Poster)

Atanacio Panahon II (Ateneo de Manila University/Philippines): Philippine Perspective (Poster)

Sandra Löher (University Duisburg-Essen/Germany): Professionalisation in ASEM-Countries (Poster)

Katrin Heyl (University Duisburg-Essen/Germany): Professionalisation in Adult Education. International Perspectives (Poster)

André Schläfli (Swiss Federation for Adult Learning/Switzerland): Swiss Perspective (Poster)

Raymond Setiawan (Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute/Indonesia): Indonesian Perspective (Poster)

Khalid Mehmood (Lahore Punjab/Pakistan), Muhammad Bilal Aziz (National Education Foundation/Pakistan): Pakistan Perspective (Poster)

Workshop V: Pathways towards Professionalisation
Regina Egetenmeyer

Input
P. Adinarayana Reddy (Sri Venkateswara University/India): Professionalisation of Lifelong Learning in Indian Universities (Text, Presentation)

André Schläfli (Swiss Federation for Adult Learning/Switzerland): Defining and Establishing Professional Standards - the Swiss Model (Presentation)

Alexander Schnarr (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg/Germany): Pedagogical Professionalism of Teachers in Vocational Education in the P.R. China (Text, Presentation)

Uthaya Prakash (Huawei Technologies/Malaysia): Professionalism in Adult and Lifelong Learning (Multicultural Environment) Malaysian Perspective (Text)

Workshop VI: Competence Development of Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education
Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė

Input
Leonardo Rey S. Cariño (Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges/Philippines)
Professionalizing Development Work in the Delivery of Informal, Non-formal and Alternative Cultural Education (INFACE) Initiatives in the Philippines (Text)

Sabine Digel (Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen Germany): Professionalization of Teachers by using Video-based Cases (Presentation)

Sanita Baranova (University of Latvia/Latvia): Topical needs of the Development of University Professors’ Competencies, especially Teacher Trainers Competencies in Latvia (Text)

S. Y. Shah (International Institute of Adult & Lifelong Learning/India): Teacher Training in Adult and Lifelong Learning: Indian Scenario (Text, Presentation)


Workshop VII: Challenges towards the Professionalisation of Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education
Simona Sava

Input
Marcella Milana (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University/Denmark): Professionals vs. role professionals: Conceptualizing professionalism among teachers of adults (Text)

Ingeborg Schüßler, Stephan Wagenhals (Ludwigsburg University of Education/Germany): Professionalization of adult educators in German Universities – Selected Findings (Presentation)

B. Agastin (St. John’s College/India): Characters of Lifelong Learners and Nonlife Long Learners among Teachers in Higher Education Sector in India (Text)

Charlotte Heidsiek (Helmut-Schmidt-University/Germany): Diversity Management as Key-Competence in Lifelong Learning Contexts (Presentation)
 

Tamara Nikolić Maksić (University of Belgrade/Serbia): The Study of Andragogy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (Poster)

Maria Melizza D. Tan (Commission on Information and Communications Technology/Philippines) Teacher Training on the eSkwela Instruction Model (Poster)

Rigel John H. Rabago (Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges/Philippines): The trainer Qualification Framework of the Philippine Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Validation of Adult Educator’s Competencies (Poster)

Leonardo Rey S. Cariño (Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges/Philippines): Professionalisation of ACE Teachers and Trainers in the Philippines: The TM+ (Trainer’s and Assessor’s Methodology Course) Module (Text, Poster)

Margrethe Marstrøm Svensrud (Norwegian Institute for Adult Learning/Norway): Qualifications for teachers who teach Basic skills to adult in Norway (Text, Poster)

Kirsten Mülheims (University of Duisburg-Essen/Germany): European Master in Adult Education (Poster)

Benjamin Klages (University of Potsdam/Germany): Professionalisation of teaching staff in higher education. Network of Quality in Academic Studies Brandenburg in cooperation with the University of Potsdam (Poster)

Ioana Darjan (IREA / Romania): CELiNE: Boost your VET students’ professional skills by strengthen their literacy competencies! (Poster)

Workshop VIII: Key Competencies of Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education
Huaixin Zhu (Presentation)
 

Input
Sabine Wiemann (BUPNET Göttingen/Germany): Acting in networks – a key professional competence of adult educators (Text, Presentation)

Yang Ling (Macau University of Science and Technology/China): Explore the Prospective Competences of Lifelong Learning Professionals in Macau SAR, China (Text)

Mariana Crasovan (Romanian Institute for Adult Education/Romania): Competency Profile of the Assessor in the Validation Process (Presentation)

Workshop IX: Teachers and Trainers Roles and Activities in Adult Education
S. Y. Shah

Input
Elina Maslo (Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus/Denmark): Teacher in the Transformative Learning Space (Presentation)

Maria Kondratjuk (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg/Germany): Professionals in Adult Education: the omnipotent Profile of Adult Educators in Educational Corporations (Presentation)


Workshop X: Teachers and Trainers Competencies between State and Market
Atanacio Panahon II

Input
Ioana Darjan; Mihai Florin Predescu (West University of Timisoara/Romania): Developing embedded literacy teaching skills of VET teachers a pathway for professionalization (Presentation)

Felicitas von Küchler (German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE)/ Germany): Organising Community Learning – a Key Competences for Adult Educators (Text)

Mihai Florin Predescu (Romanian Institute for Adult Education/Romania): There is such thing as political competence and should adult educators be concerned about
it? (Presentation)

Participants: Huaixin Zhu (Zhejiang University/China), S. Y. Shah (Indian Adult Education Association/India), Bjarne Wahlgren (Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus/Denmark), Simona Sava (Romanian Institute for Adult Education/Romania) (Presentation: Bjarne Wahlgren)