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Conferences

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

  Conference History:

  18th ECLO Int’l Conference 2011, TBD

  Conference Program TBD

  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)

  n.a.

  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)

  n.a.

  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)

  n.a.

  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: ?)

  n.a.

  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
  Conference Theme: Building Learning Organisations: Tools and Techniques
  (Host: Glasgow Development Agency and Glasgow Learning Alliance)

  n.a.

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

  n.a.

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

  n.a.

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

  n.a.

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

  n.a.

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

  n.a.

Workshops

• …
• 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)

Awards

• ECLO Academic Award
  2010: Winner – Hans-Werner Franz (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany); Worthy of mention – Alaa Garad (Middlesex University, Dubai)
• ECLO Practitioner Award
  2010: Winner – Diane Doyon + Jacques Limoges (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada); Worthy of mention – Mireille Boonstra-Kints (KPC Groep, Netherlands)
• ECLO Impact Award
  2010: Winner – Dan Lamoon and Jon Prest (From Dusk To Dawn, UK); Worthy of mention – Józefa Fawcett (OFQT Ltd, UK)