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[EN] Control education is a mature area in which many professors and researchers have worked hard to face the challenge of providing a versatile education, with a strong scientific base. All this without losing sight of the needs of the industry; adapting the contents, methodologies and tools to the continuous social and technological changes of our time. This article presents a reflection on the role of automation in today s society, a review of the traditional objectives of control education through seminal works in the area and finally a review of the main current trends., [ES] La educación en automática es un área madura en la que multitud de profesores e investigadores han trabajado intensamente para afrontar el reto de proporcionar una educación versátil, con una fuerte base cientí­fica. Todo ello sin perder de vista las necesidades de la industria; adaptando los contenidos, las metodologí­as y las herramientas a los continuos cambios sociales y tecnológicos de nuestro tiempo. Este artí­culo presenta una reflexión sobre el papel de la automática en la sociedad actual, una revisión de los objetivos tradicionales de la educación en automática a través de los trabajos seminales del área y finalmente una revisión de las principales tendencias actuales.

International audience; This paper proposes a new architecture of incremen-tal fuzzy inference system (also called Evolving Fuzzy System-EFS). In the context of classifying data stream in non stationary environment, concept drifts problems must be addressed. Several studies have shown that EFS can deal with such environment thanks to their high structural flexibility. These EFS perform well with smooth drift (or incremental drift). The new architecture we propose is focused on improving the processing of brutal changes in the data distribution (often called brutal concept drift). More precisely, a generalized EFS is paired with a module of anticipation to improve the adaptation of new rules after a brutal drift. The proposed architecture is evaluated on three datasets from UCI repository where artificial brutal drifts have been applied. A fit model is also proposed to get a "reactivity time" needed to converge to the steady-state and the score at end. Both characteristics are compared between the same system with and without anticipation and with a similar EFS from state-of-the-art. The experiments demonstrates improvements in both cases.

The article reviews the importance of long-life learning nowadays and the new semantic e-learning environment creating during the last years to support the requirements of that conditions. The education in 21st century is a long-life learning education with the commitment to formal, non-formal, and informal learningsupportedbyNew Learning Environments. The eAcademia framework has been adopted and created with real and virtual members of organizations, applications for communication and collaboration, e-Learning, and directory services. The aim of the article is to describe the changes in the education system in the last decades forced by the innovations of technology and their implementation in life. The characteristics of the New Learning Environments are analyzed and the concept of long-life learning.

Most important conceptualizations of quality of life have in their definitions three basic pillars: psychical dimension, psychological dimension and social dimension (OMS, 1948, Schalock and Verdugo, 2003; Walker, 2010). In this communication we focus our attention on the last dimension, in detail how the long life learning could improve seniors’ quality of life.The purpose of this study is to analyze social networks of the seniors’ students in the UniversitatOberta per a Majors (UOM), -an educational program intended to adults over 50 years- from 2006-2007 to 2011-2012 academic years. Method: Application of social support questionnaire. A total of 261 questionnaires were used for the analysis by SPSS program. Dimensions evaluated were: lost relationships (and sources) versus new relationships (and sources), feeling of loneliness, perception of changes on their social network from to 5 years before and for next 5 years and influence of the educative program in these changes. Findings and results: Most of the sample affirm that lost relationships of working environment, but in general they have increased their social network; rarely they have loneliness feelings and they think that their social network will be stable during next 5 years. They considered that UOM program have a strongly positive effect in their social networks.Conclusions and recommendation: positive effects of long life learning are demonstrate in this study, specifically improving social networks’ senior students

Due to the increasing average age of skilled professionals in the field of construction and municipal facilities as well as increasing the number of migrants who often do not possess the necessary skills to carry out construction work and research, there is an urgent need to an influx of skilled workers with different levels of education and training. In this regard, it is necessary to improve the skills of teachers and trainers, to help them in their acquisition of professional experience in work with the modern technological equipment, contribute to the development of innovative technologies applied to the leading construction companies in the region; and train the concept of “double teacher”, who can solve several problems. Solving this problem allows Technical College will contribute effective organization of production practices, will increase interest in the building trade, the formation of the graduates of the college corporate spirit and the emergence of confidence in their own employability.

Urban gardens are spreading in many cities across Europe, with community gardening being a fundamental form of urban agriculture. While the literature reveals the essential role that community gardens can play in terms of learning and education, no studies have investigated the training needs for participants in community gardens to ensure their successful development. The goal of this article is to evaluate the training requirements of urban community gardens to ensure their successful implementation and their contribution to sustainability in European cities. Two questionnaires of users&rsquo, needs analysis were designed and implemented in Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, and Cartagena. The results unveiled the need to re-enforce the training in the formation and community building phases of community gardens towards ensuring the creation of an engaged gardening community to maintain activity, particularly for top-down activities (e.g., research-related gardens). Users claimed their need for being trained on crop management skills (e.g., maintenance, bed preparation, organic practices) and on communication skills to further disseminate their activity, thereby increasing the potential for citizen engagement. Such requirements could be overcome with the creation of urban gardens networks, where experiences and knowledge are shared among practitioners. Policy recommendations are provided based on the outputs of this study.

This article explores the features of assessments which Russian managers used when they asked to assess the aged subordinates' professional performance. We studied, how the manager prefer to assess aged professionals' planning, control and work process. To reconcile aged professionals work experience and organizational changes the Matrix of competitiveness of work experience (Matrix CWE) proposed. Эта статья исследует особенности оценки российскими руководителями среднего возраста деятельности пожилых специалистов. Изучаюсь оценка руководителями особенностей планирования, контроля и организации работы пожилых специалистов. Для того, чтобы помочь таким работникам согласовать их опыт работы с организационными изменениями и эффективно обучать пожилых работников предлагается использовать матрицу конкурентоспособности профессионального опыта (CWE).

This paper presents the research approach designed for EScAlADE, an EU funded project that sees the participation of five European countries and focuses on adult participative e-learning. EScAlADE aims at investigating about the educational needs of adults (range: 50-65 years) involved in e-learning programs. This paper reports on the projects methodology and on the necessity of educational strategies able to provide adult trainees with the skills required by the labor market.

Este artículo plantea la necesidad de incluir la orientación personal y profesional en los planes y actuaciones de formación profesional que se desarrollan en la actualidad. Es preciso elaborar programas y herramientas específicas para orientar los procesos de aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida . se propone que se tenga en cuenta las aportaciones que se vienen realizando desde la pedagogía sistémica para enfocar las labores de orientación para la elaboración del proyecto profesional y de vitala This paper is about the need to include personal and professional guidance into present professional education plans and actions. It is necessary to develop specific programmes and tools to guide long-life learning processes. It is put forward to take into account the contributions that are being carned out from the systemic pedagogy approach to focus the guidance processes for the development of the life and professional project.

The term Electronic Learning or e-Learning is being used in Russia rather rarely. It integrates a number of terminological notions in the sphere of application of modern information and communication technologies in education such as multimedia, education on the base of web-technologies, etc. Teachers and learners must realize that new opportunities are offered by modern on-line communication. A person with basic Internet and Web skills is open to a new world of knowledge, from free Web surfing and self-organized education – through on-line resources and familiarization with Internet culture, its places, sites, search engines etc. – up to a more structured approach.

The paper aims to present the process and partnership building in multicultural project teams through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) taking into account the Cultour+ communication project management plan to build virtual teams. CULTOUR+ is a Strategic Partnership (SP) of universities, local governments, SMEs and NGOs, that following the mainlines of the Higher Education Modernization Agenda, will offer high quality and innovative courses and tools, integrating innovation, international mobility and cross-border cooperation to enhance capacity building in higher education curricula in the fields of cultural tourism and hospitality, cultural management and shared cultural heritage. This paper aims to enhance the effective use of ICT in project work by analyzing the way it fits in with various project activities having as an example the Cultour+ project. This approach may facilitate the choice of appropriate tools by each project team and show how ICT can support key processes like leadership, management, communication and co-operation within other European project teams.