Within the Norwegian education system, Akershus University College has been accorded a nodal point function for vocational pedagogy at National level. The Centre for Research on Education and Work is established to be a space for professional reflection and knowledge development. The whole educational system in Norway has gone through a profound change during the 1990s, in order to face new challenges linked to fundamental and rapid changes in the society, characterised by globalisation, new information and communication technology and increased mobility. These changes have taken place in a very consensus oriented society. Thus, a general feature of this changing process in Norway is the fact that it has been a tripartite reform process carried out in collaboration between the social partners employers and employees - and the State.
Reforms are now in an implementation phase, at all educational levels, although at different paces.
In this social setting, at the beginning of a new millennium, focus is placed more and more on what kind of relation has to be established between learning at school and learning at the work place and in the space between the two. This seminar is set up in order to open up for an international discussion in search for answers to this question. Education technology, and language 2. Teachers and teacher education challenged to change 3. Cultural partnership school and enterprises 4.