Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning (LLL) policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy.


Examining specific yet diverse regional and local contexts across Europe, this book uses original research to evaluate differences in scope, approach, orientation, and objectives. It examines the embedding of LLL policies into the regional economy, the labour market, education and training systems and the individual life projects of young people, with a focus on those in situations of near social exclusion.

Contributions by: Sebastiano Benasso, Mauro Palumbo, Vlatka Domovic, Anna Cossetta, Natalia Alves, Tiago Neves, Ruggero Cefalo, Kristinn Hermannsson, Rosario Scandurra, Anna Siri, Sonia Startari, Judith Jacovkis, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Valentina Milenkova, Thomas Verlage, Jenni Tikkanen, Tero Järvinen, Heikki Silvennoinen, Risto Rinne, Oscar Valiente, Queralt Capsada-Munsech, Borislava Petkova, Dejana Bouillet, Mirjam Pot, Ruggero Cefalo, Yuri Kazepov, Nikolas Schöneck, Valeria Pandolfini, Kevin Lowden