Call for papers: DGWF Annual Conference 2026 | Future Lab Continuing Education: New Scenarios for Lifelong Learning
Under the title “Future Lab Continuing Education” the DGWF Annual Conference 2026 invites participants to develop, discuss, and reflect on new scenarios for continuing education. The focus is on the systematic development, discussion, and classification of future endeavours that could be significant in the context of continuing education—in terms of content and target groups, as well as formats, governance, framework conditions, and social impact.
The aim is to identify different possible visions of the future and explore their implications for education policy, academic institutions, and professional practice, as well as synergies with undergraduate teaching. What possible, probable, and desirable futures will shape the continuing education of tomorrow—and how can we shape them actively today? How could continuing education position itself in different visions of the future? What skills, structures, and formats would be conceivable? And how can universities and continuing education institutions make and pave the way for bold and strategically necessary decisions?
A particular focus will be placed on international university partners – for example, from European university alliances and other global collaborations, to open a broader international perspective. What future developments are conceivable in this context? How can we jointly shape an international educational space characterized by openness, mobility, digital connectivity, and shared responsibility for education and research? What role can continuing education play here, drawing on its strengths in openness, flexible formats, diversity, and didactic innovation?
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