THEMP project

THEMP (Tertiary Higher Education for Mid-life People) is an EC supported project investigating Tertiary Lifelong Learning (TLL) for people in ‘mid-life’- identified as one of the main challenges facing ‘ageing knowledge societies’. The project involved universities in 7 European countries and employed an innovative combination of Transitional Labour market approaches (to define and measure situation of social risks) and the capability and capital approach (to operationalize employability and well-being).

Based on HERC’s research on lifelong learning in higher education, in November 2013 Professor Slowey, Director of HERC was invited to give one of the keynote addresses at the Final THEMP Conference at Barcelona University.

The THEMP project is coordinated by the CYD Foundation, Barcelona and full reports are available at  http://themp.eu/

Photograph: Opening session of THEMP conference, Aula Magna, Universitat de Barcelona

Left to right: Professors Santacana (VP FCYD) Ramirez (Rector, Barcelona University) and Kruger (Coordinator THEMP project)