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LLLPLATFORM - ACTIVITY REPORT 2016 WHAT WE DO ANSWERING CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES ANNUAL CONFERENCE IMAGINING THE LEARNING COMMUNITY OF TOMORROW The learning community of tomorrow, what will it look like? The speed at which society has evolved in the last decades makes it difficult to conceive what might be happening in 10 years, let alone 20 or 50. But this is not enough to stop us from hoping for a better future. On the contrary, it seems the perfect time to design the society we dream of, and what role education will play in realising it! The LLLPlatform held its Annual Conference 2016 in Bratislava, on 31 May and 1 June. Gathering some 100 experts and practioners in education, the conference was the opportunity to share practices from all over Europe to learn from each other and build creative solutions. Followed by a Project Development workshop, it supported participants finding partners for projects aimed at meeting Europe’s most pressing challenges. The learning community cannot be imagined solely on the basis of what goes on in the classroom. Indeed, if the traditional space for learning is the classroom, this learning also takes place at home, outside school when taking part in activities such as sports, theatre, music…, and most of all, learning take place throughout life, long after we leave schools and all the way up to retirement. Learning is also highly dependent on the environment it develops in, meaning the built but also natural environment. The outcomes of each workshop were handed over to a group of architects who interpreted them on a maquette, presented to the audience in the final plenary. This novel way of looking at policy as integrated within a real environement, spurred the final discussions. GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016 GA 31 MAY - BRATISLAVA (SK) 12 The Platform held its 2016 GA in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the Institut Français of Slovakia, partner in the LLLP Annual Conference. 2016 31 may 1 & june BRATISLAVA - SLOVAKIA IMAGINING IMAGINING THE THE LEARNING LEARNING COMMUNITY COMMUNITY OF OF TOMORROW TOMORROW www.lllplatform-ac2016.org international