Call for Papers, deadline: 10 February 2012

Invitation
The EDEN Annual Conference will approach the key questions of learning methodology and technology focusing on the 'Open learning generations', the contexts of socially significant target groups: junior and senior e-learners. We will explore their learning cultures, technology use patterns and discuss new approaches in the schools, universities, lifelong - informal - adult learning settings that respond to them.

The 2012 European Year of Active Ageing and the Solidarity Between Generations serves as framework for raising awareness, generating innovative approaches and disseminating good practice.

Open learning for and amongst diverse generations
Innovative pedagogical models have been significant in empowering learners and their communities as co-producers in networked lifelong learning. The spread of educational resources as digital content which accommodate different learning pathways, widening participation and shared learning experience between generations will contribute to closing the technology gap.

Online and Social
The 2012 EDEN Annual Conference will be supported and accompanied intensively by social networking, online and virtual presence and involvement possibilities. That will be implemented through the EDEN Members Portal: the NAP area on the web.

Call for Contributions
We invite all interested professionals to take part and discover the conference themes by submitting their experience.

There will be opportunities for submitting and presenting papers, workshops, posters and demonstrations. At the Porto conference, virtual presentations, as a new form will be introduced. The conference allows openness in choosing the topics and in applying interactive formats and ways of presentations.

To learn more about the scope of the event and consult the themes, please visit the respective conference pages.
For details visit the Conference web-site and the Call for Contributions links.

Keynote Speakers
- Laszlo Andor, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (invited)
- Nuno Crato, Minister of Education, Portugal
- Bob Fryer, Chair of Board, Campaign for Learning, UK
- David White, Honorary Director General, European Commission, DG EAC
- Dale J. Stephens, Educational futurist, 2011 Thiel Fellow '20 Under 20', USA
- Lesley Wilson, Secretary General of the European University Association (invited)
- Ingeborg Bo, Norwegian Associaton of Distance Education, EDEN Past-president

Schedule and Deadlines
Paper Submissions - 10 February, 2012
Registration Open - Mid February
Notification of Authors - 31 March

Conference Venue, Porto
The second largest city in Portugal is Porto, or Oporto, considered as the economic and cultural heart of the entire region. Porto, is a city with soul, populated with a supportive community, an unhurried pace of life. The city's historic center was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, and it was also the European cultural capital in 2001.

The Conference will be hosted at the Alfandega do Porto Congress Center, in downtown Porto, by the Douro River. This historical building was the former customs house which after recovering by Portuguese contemporary architects is now an outstanding facility.