The document prepared in the framework of the COMORELP project (Joint Monitoring of Regional Lifelong Learning Policies) summarises the evaluation of regional lifelong learning policies in the Małopolska region. The evaluation was based on a tool prepared by representatives of the project's partner institutions, representing Poland, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and Turkey. The tool includes an evaluation of different aspects of lifelong learning policy in the region – Its management, design and implementation, and evaluation.
The carried out self-assessment, however, is not intended as an accountability check, but as a tool for building the region's self-knowledge, strengthening learning processes and sharing experiences.
The participants in the self-assessment roundtable were representing all economic sectors, public, private, and non-governmental as the stakeholders of lifelong learning processes in Małopolska.
The answers given to the questions were jointly discussed and collectively agreed upon. The participants of the Regional Round Table, in concluding their deliberations, unanimously acknowledged that the very attempt to answer the questions posed was a learning experience. It made it possible to look at individual problems or issues of lifelong learning from a new perspective, often going beyond seeing them only from the level of the institution or organisation they represent.
The report consists of several parts: it first presents a general characteristic of the region, particularly focusing on its potential for the development of lifelong learning, then presents the results of the SWOT analysis, which characterises this potential, followed by the general structure of the organisation of lifelong learning in Poland. The last and most comprehensive part of the study contains the results of a self-assessment of the learning policy in Malopolska in relation to the fourteen aspects of the policy analysed. The report is supplemented by an annex, which presents the synthetic results of the evaluation.