Lifelong learning for the Italian Public Administra tion: the MarchE-Learning Project

This paper describes a local experience for the development of a fr amework program to set up a Continuous Learning System for Public Administration employees of Marche Region, in Central Italy. Such program belongs to a greater national program, aimed at modernizing the Italian Public Administration by means of t he application of ICTs. This program is also part of Italian participation in the European Union’s Lisbon Strategy, aimed at turning Europe into one of the most competitive knowledge-based societies in the world. The activity ai ms at setting up a network of reference PA workers in underprivileged areas of the Marc he Region, and training them to detect needs that will be satisfied through a network i nfrastructure to carry out e-learning activities.