Within its theme of Aging, lifelong learning and life course flexibility, the committee focuses on lifelong learning and work and lifelong learning and health, both sub-themes developed in relation to life course research and policy framework.

For lifelong learning and work, the committee seeks to answer questions such as: How and on what contexts do individuals, experiencing desynchronized life course, develop and mobilize knowledge and skills to pilot their occupational life transitions?

In the context of demographic changes that project labour shortage, the learning demand of the active population shifts towards older occupational strata. How are the work-related learning demands that emerge later in people’s lives expressed and met in various sectors?

Health-related lifelong learning policies are emerging in national policies on health, which tend to complete their historical dominant curative orientation with new concerns for health literacy within new public health strategies. The aim is to monitor this yet timid but steady transition from health welfare system to participative
learnfare system.

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