An Integral Model for Interleaving 21st Century Education with Career and Life Long Learning. Introduction to Historical Scope and Design Rational

The current trends of disfavoring statistics for technological education in EU and USA, are not to be regarded as an issue of isolated origin and cause, but rather as a culminating sequence of consequences stemming from structural deficiencies in the career development, curriculum inadequacy and competency, along with a non efficient and rigid link between academic education and enterprise/industry. The hereby briefly outlined EUEDOS model (www.euedos.org - European University Enterprise/Education/Employability Databases Organization System), has been initially officially presented and proposed under the European University-Industry Network (www.eui- net.org). This preliminary study, introduces an integral 3-layer roadmap for implementing an effective and pragmatic delivery, of a technological model able to interleave and render an individual's employment and academic profile, as inter-nested to his/her life-through education. It can be readily applied as a complementary activity to standing policies and institutional structures. A robust technological framework is further introduced able to act as an effective roadmap for Life-Long-Learning activities, as well as sustain the accumulated wealth of the life-through experience assessed by the individual. On the technology framework aspect, this model is realized as a set of next-generation distributed repositories/depositories, nested under a flexible low cost grid (as based on common non-brand hardware platforms) for allowing the knowledge built-up on an inter-institutional cycle of sustainable cooperation. The emergence of thematic networks and "technology leagues" that should spring from such a fostered activity, will form the basis for the new enterprise model, expectedly a broader scheme of cooperation of experts focused towards project specific activities with innate potential for acute innovation generation. The paper will also provide a brief overview of deductions and directions after three years of rendering the project's exploratory activities.