DOCUMENT RESUME CE 085 377 ED 479 670 AUTHOR Guggenheim, Eric Fries, Ed. Agora XI: The LearningRegion (Thessaloniki, Greece, March TITLE 15-16, 2001). CEDEFOP PanoramaSeries. Development of Vocational Training, INSTITUTION European Centre for the Thessaloniki (Greece). REPORT NO TI-49-03-894-EN-C; CEDEFOP-70 ISBN ISBN-92-896-0221-X ISSN ISSN-1562-6180 PUB DATE 2003-00-00 and Portuguese. NOTE 166p.; Also available in French GR-55102 Greece. Tel: 30 AVAILABLE FROM CEDEFOP, PO Box 22427, Thessaloniki, 31 49 01 11; Fax: 30 31 49 01 02;e-mail:
[email protected]; Web site:http://www.trainingvillage.gr/ (# 5140 EN, free). For full text: http://www2.trainingvillage.gr/ etv/publication/download/panorama/ 5140_en.pdf. PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. Impact; *Educational DESCRIPTORS Adoption (Ideas); Colleges; Economic Innovation; Foreign Countries; Partnershipsin Education; *Policy Formation; *Regional Cooperation;Regional Programs; School Business Relationship; SocialCapital; *Social Integration; *Vocational Education;Vocational Schools; Vocational Training Centers Regions IDENTIFIERS *Europe; European Union; *Learning ABSTRACT This conference program describes"education and training agencies taking a leading rolein promoting innovation on a regionalbasis" following three key issues to as the focus ofthe Agora and puts forward the region itself and a be debated during it:(1) the concept of the learning critique of its strengths andweaknesses;(2) education and training agencies, including