Norman Longworth

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Independent Consultant
France
  • Former Hon Professor of Lifelong Learning at 5 European Universities        
  • Former Managere of External Education Programmes, IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Former UNESCO Professor
  • Former President of European Lifelong Learning Initiative
  • Consultant to UNESCO (current) and formerly to European Union and OECD
Interests/Expertise: 

Economic, Social and Environmental Development of Learning cities and regions
Project Management and Consulyancy on Lifelong Learning and Learning City/Region Matters
Development and application of Tools and Audits for implementing Learning City/Region Policies
Development and application of Learning Materials for Local and Regional Authorities on Learning City/Region Topics

Lifelong learning in schools, universities, business and Industry, local authorities and Adult and Community Education. 

Recent research/consultancy: 
  • TELS (Towards a European Learning Society) developing an Audit Tool for 80 Learning Cities
  • LILLIPUT, development of 200 hours of learning materials in 14 modules
  • PALLACE, Linking Learning Cities and Regions in 4 continents
  • INDICATORS – developing Stakeholder Audits for Transforming Local Authorities, Schools, Universities, SMEs etc
  • LILARA (Learning in Local and Regional Authorities), developing Audit Tools to find Learning Needs of local and regional authority personnel and their stakeholders.
  • PENR3L (Pascal European Network) Workshops and Conference to establish European Network of Academics and Practitioners in Learning Cities/Regions
  • EUROlocal - collecting all learning cities and regions tools, learning materials, knowledge, charters, strategies etc together into one interactive website and making available to all.
  • UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities - advice to UNESCO on content, policy/strategies, key features and implementation.
  • PASCAL Networks of Learning Cities - Inclusion and Entrepreneurialism
  • Friuli Futures - regional future in Northern Italy - consultancy and advice 
Recognitions, positions, memberships: 
  • Former President of European Lifelong Learning Initiative
  • Vice-President of World Initiative on Lifelong Learning (presently inactive)
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures
  • Former holder of IBM/UNESCO chair in learning and education technology
  • Former manager of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa external educational programmes
  • Consultancy work for OECD, European Commission, UNESCO etc
  • PASCAL Associate
Selected publications: 
  • ‘Lifelong Learning- new vision, new implications, new roles’ (Kogan Page (now Taylor and Francis) 1996)
  • ‘Lifelong Learning at Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century’ (Kogan Page (now Taylor and Francis) 1999)
  • European Commission Policy paper on the Local and Regional Dimension of Lifelong Learning (DG EaC 2001)
  • ‘Lifelong Learning in Action – Transforming Education in the 21st century’ (Kogan Page (now Taylor and Francis 2003)
  • ‘Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities – Lifelong Learning and Local Government’ (Taylor and Francis 2006)
  • Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions (with Prof Michael Osborne) (NIACE 2010)  
  • plus 100+ keynote and refereed conference papers, chapters in other books and project reports

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