ABSTRACT
Several characteristics and evolutions of our contemporary society such as continuously changing and rapid evolving (technological) innovation and growing (global) competitiveness (Kyndt, Dochy, Michielsen and Moeyaert, 2009) have led to the fact that both organisations and individuals experience the need for lifelong learning (Baert, 2002; Beck and Achtenhagen, 2007; Pillay, Boulton-Lewis and Wilss, 2003). Lifelong learning is understood as
a process, in which both individuals and organisations, in all contexts of their functioning, acquire the needed knowledge and competences to be able to realise all their professional, economic, social and cultural responsibilities in a rapid changing society and to be able to adopt a critical, meaning giving and responsible attitude.
(Baert, 2002)