European Consortium for the Learning Organisation (ECLO)*

Conferences

Conference of the European Consortium for the Learning Organisation (ECLO)**

17th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 12-14, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
Conference Theme: Learning Excellence, a Survival Guide in Troublesome Times
(in partnership with the EU Leonardo Projects Ti-SAETO and Trans-SAETO (Successful Quality Development by/using by Self-Assessment For Educational and Training Organisations)

Workshops: Knowledge Speaker Cafe

16th June 18-19, 2009, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Conference Theme: Vitality in Organisations – Fit Until the Finish
(Host: KPC Groep)

15th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 15-16, 2008, Budapest, Hungary
Conference Theme: Never Stop Asking – The Age of LifeLong Learning
(Host: Society for Organizational Learning (Hungary))

Stream: The Role of Mobile Technologies in European Learning

14th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 30 – June 1, 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
Conference Theme: Learning Organisations in the 21st Century: Reflecting, Refining and Reshaping an Essential Strategy
(Host: Glasgow Caledonian University Business School)

13th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 22-23, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Theme: Creating the Capacity for Change
(Host: European Corporate Universities and Academies Network (ECUANET) and Odyssey)

12th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 23-24, 2005, Birmingham, UK
Conference Theme: Transformation, the Ultimate Learning Process
(Host: Millennium Point Birmingham and the University of Central England)

Keynotes: Birmingham, transformation country; Transformation : the ultimate process ?

Themes: Developing Managers to Become Transformational Agents; Transforming the Individual to Transform the Organisation; Knowledge Management as a Transformational Tool; Transforming the Organisation; Tools and Measurement;

Engagements: Transformation, the missing link

11th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 24-25, 2004, Dublin, Ireland
Conference Theme: Leadership for Learning – Collaborative Learning
(Host: Brewing Skillnet and Skillnets)

Keynotes: Putting Inspiration into Practice: a Visualisation; Leading through Collaboration. Lessons Learned in the Skillnets Project

Leading through Collaboration revisited or…
– The Deidesheimer Kreis”® peer learning concept for leaders
– ECLO’s communities of practice and how they relate to you
– learning = sharing

Themes: Leading Strategic Learning; Learning Process Innovation; Concepts; Learning in Learning to Learn; Learning Process Innovation

10th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 22-24, 2003, Dortmund, Germany
Conference Theme: Learning from Crisis, Learning for Crisis – How Can an Organisation Prepare itself and its Members
(Host: German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition (DASA); sfs Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund (Social Research Centre))

Themes: Getting the picture – how organisations learn for crisis; Living the reality; Understanding the building blocks; Recent Developments in Learning Organisations; Management and Leadership

9th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 16-18, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Conference Theme: Delivering Learning in the Workplace – When the Learning Organisation Becomes a Knowledge Factory
(Host: ?)

8th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 16-18, 2001, Lisbon, Portugal
Conference Theme: The Discovery of the Learning Organisation: The New Management Frontier
(Host: Global Change Consultores Internacionais Associados)

Keynotes: The Living Company in the New Economy

Themes: Thoughts; Tools; Testimonials

Executive panel (Roundtable)

Open Space

Pre-conference Workshops: Enhancing the Learning (May 15)

7th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 17-19, 2000, Munich, Germany
Conference Theme: The Future for Learning Organisations
(Host: the Munich Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Allianz, Kenniscentrum CIBIT, Deutsche Telekom AG)

Keynotes: Cooperation between universities and business necessary; The Future for Learning Organisations (was: How to build organizations worthy of people’s commitment?); Transformation of IBM into a learning organisation; Deutsche Telekom as a learning organisation: How HRD promotes the change process

Plenary Session: Creating a Knowledge Market

Themes: The Future of Technology in support of the Learning Organisation; The Future of Learning; The Future of Tools to support Learning Organisation implementation; The Future of Learning Communities – issues and lessons from practice; The Future of Learning Communities – issues and lessons from practice

Workshops: DE-CONDITIONING How to learn to forget?; TANGO – Monitoring Intellectual Assets

Site Visits: The future of Manufacturing (BMW); Living with an uncertain future (Allianz); The future of the media (Bayerischer Rundfunk)

6th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 18-20, 1999, Glasgow, Scotland
(Host: Glasgow Development Agency and Glasgow Learning Alliance)
Conference Theme: Building Learning Organisations: Tools and Techniques

5th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 18-20, 1998, Turin, Italy
Conference Theme: Learning Organisations In A Learning Society
(Host: International Labor Organization (ILO))

4th ECLO Int’l Conference, May 18-20, 1997, Sophia Antipolis, France
Conference Theme: Leading Learning Organisations Into The 21st Century
(Host:?)

3rd ECLO Int’l Conference, May 18-20, 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conference Theme: Growth through Learning
(Host: Dansk Industri)

2nd ECLO Int’l Conference, May 17-19, 1995, Warwick, UK
Conference Theme: Best Practices in Learning Organisations: Measuring the reality
(Host: Rover)

1st ECLO Int’l Conference, May 16-18, 1994, La Hulpe, Belgium
Conference Theme: Learning Organisations: Innovations – Initiatives
(Host: IBM)

Workshops

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• Sep 2007: In Search of Creative Leadership (with Leicester Business School)
• …
• Dec 1997: Building the Learning Organisation (with Scottish Campaign for Learning)
• Nov 1997: The school as a learning organisation (with Welsh Joint Education Committee Cardiff)
• Nov 1994: On the Job Learning for more Effective Performance
• Nov 1993: Learning Organisations Practices
• Sep 1993: Change Agents, Excellence and Competencies

Seminars

• Mar 2009: Challenges and Opportunities When Facing an Ageing Workforce – A Learning Perspective (with the VOV Flemish Learning Network)
• Feb 2007: People – A Source of Unlimited Knowledge Content (with Henley Knowledge Management Forum)
• Nov 2006: People – a Source of Unlimited Knowledge Content (in conjunction with Knowledge & Content Europe (KC Europe) conference)
• Sep 2006: Creating the Capacity for Change – Public Sector Seminar (LifeTree and Glasgow Caledonian University Business School)
• Nov 2004: E.C.L.O. Sessions @ KM Europe, 10 November 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  (in conjunction with the KM Europe 2004 Exhibition & Communities Programme)
• Nov 2003: E.C.L.O. Sessions @ KM Europe, 11 November 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  (in conjunction with the KM Europe 2003 Exhibition & Association Programme)
  Sessions: Knowledge Management: Problem or Solution? (presentations); Knowledge Management and Learning: tools, cases and experiences (presentations); Towards a European Community on Corporate Learning (panel discussion)

Communities

E.C.L.O. Communities of Practices (CoP) ¹⁾

• The Production of Knowledge : A Process Oriented Approach
• e-Learning implementation. Design of e-Learning content
• Technology in support of the HRD process
• Design and Management of Corporate & Enterprise Academies
• Knowledge Management Mapping
• E-Learning Project Management
• Animating and Managing Communities
• Implementation of Complex Management Initiated Change Projects
• Knowledge Management & Communities of Practice

Projects with E.C.L.O. involvement

• SME Learning Networks
• Knowledge and Learning Infrastructure (KALIF)
• Business Gaming Methods for Developing Competence in Knowledge Management (KITS)