THE ROLE OF LIFELONG LEARNING IN DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES

In a dynamic and competitive world, lifelong learning is an essential necessity for adults. Developing new skills and personal growth, adapting to new technologies and diverse cultures, improving skills and qualifications leading to new career opportunities, increasing the quality of professional and personal life, balance – all these and many other reasons can lead and motivate an adult to opt for continuing learning, which results in “improving knowledge, innovations, skills, competences and/or qualifications for personal, social or professional reasons”. The shortcomings faced by adults in the education system can be overcome through micro-skills as an alternative for developing and promoting professional skills, and rapid adaptation to new situations and challenges on the labour market from an intercultural perspective can ensure a civilized intercultural dialogue in which the stakeholders concerned would have the opportunity to build socio-economic and cultural partnerships based on high-quality values and indicators.