Balázs Németh

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Submitted by Balázs Németh on May 8, 2010 - 20:17
Professor of Lifelong Learning
University of Pecs
Hungary

Dr. habil Balázs Németh is a researcher in European adult and lifelong learning policy development and comparative adult education. He is Associate Professor and Reader in Lifelong Learning at the Faculty of Adult Education and HRD of the University of Pécs, graduated in History and English at the University of Pécs in 1995, received an MA in History from the State University of New York and Central-European University in Budapest and a postgraduate degree in European Law at the University of Pécs. He is Vice-Head of the Department of Adult Education, Head of the Regional Lifelong Learning Research Center of the Faculty, and represents the Faculty and the University in national and European research projects on adult continuing education and lifelong learning (e.g. Socrates Erasmus, Grundtvig and Tempus projects).

He has been working in the Faculty for almost two decades, and has participated joint European networks (e.g. EUCEN) and related projects, researching the role of higher education in adult and continuing education and lifelong learning (e.g. TheNUCE, EULLearN, ALPINE, EUROEDULT, DILLMULI, LILARA), and on curriculum development for adult educators (e.g. Socrates Grundtvig TEACH project – www.teach.pl). He is the official representative of the University of Pécs in EUCEN and EAEA. He has provided surveys on adult learning and education in Central-East Europe for the European Commission on Quality in the Adult Learning Sector, Policy Developments in Adult Education.

           

He is a founding member of the Hungarian Universities Lifelong Learning Network (MELLearN). Further research includes work in: Politics and Adult Education; Comparative Adult Education; History of Modern European Adult Education and Learning City-Region Developments in association with the global network of learning cities programme (GNLC) of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and PASCAL.

Balázs Németh has been the president since 2019 and member of Steering Committee of EUCEN, since 2015, being responsible for policy affairs and talks. He is a vice-Director of PASCAL International Observatory for Central-East Europe, Executive President of MELLearN and the current president of the Adult Education Sub-Commission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Dr Németh was a key figure to take the learning region initiative into the focus of discussion of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the European Union as an alternate member of the Education, Research Commission of the CoR. He has published research papers on the development of European lifelong learning policy as part of the Lisbon strategic planning, and has elaborated upon the role of university continuing education in Hungary (globalisation, lifelong learning and their impact on the adult education of Central East-European countries, see Journal of Adult and Continuing Education. 9.1. 2003; University Continuing Education in Hungary; M. Osborne and E. Thomas (eds.) Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent. Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe. NIACE, 2003. 8; Lifelong Learning – historical overview, in S. Schmidt-Lauff (hrsg.); Adult Education and Lifelong Learning. A European View as perceived by participants in exchange programme, Verlag Dr. Kovac 2003, and edited books on adult and continuing education (e.g. B. Németh and F. Pöggeler (eds.) (2002) Ethics, Ideals and Ideologies in the History of Adult Education. Peter Lang, Hamburg; B. Németh - Jutta Thinesse-Demel (eds.) (2004) Museums as learning places, LERNMUSE- A SOCRATES-Accompanying Measures, Project number 2002-3478/001-001 SO2 81AWC, PTE TTK FEEFI. Pécs.

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