Lifelong Learning Discourses in Europe contains a selection of papers presented during the Regional Conference on Lifelong Learning in Europe: Moving towards EFA Goals and CONFINTEA V Agenda held in Sofia; Bulgaria from Nov. 6-9, 2002. Bringing together almost 200 participants from 40 countries in Europe, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States, this was a precedent setting meeting as 1) it was the first meeting held at the regional level which covered the three areas of Lifelong Learning, Education for All and Adult Education; 2) it was the first gathering at the regional level to bring together participants from government, non-government organizations, research institutes and academe; and 3) it was the first attempt ever made to problematize the relationships across the three policy discourses.

This meeting was made possible through the combined efforts of the Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria; the Grundtvig Program of the European Commission; UNESCO and its Institute for Education (UIE); European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA); and the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Association of Adult Education (IIZ-DVV).