Xavier Rambla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. In the last decade he has participated in research on lifelong learning policies in the European Union and Education for All in Latin America. Further information is available here: https://geps-uab.cat/xavier-rambla/Marcella Milana is Associate professor of general and social education at the Department of Human Sciences, and since 2019, Honorary professor of adult education at the University of Nottingham, School of Education, UK. Expert in adult education and lifelong learning, her research interests focus on education policies and governance - at local, national, regional and global levels, and in a comparative perspective, for this reason she draws on multidisciplinary knowledge and collaborates also with sociologists and experts in political science. Methodologically she believes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are all needed, but is mostly devoted to qualitative research.

• Introduction — The stepping- stones of lifelong learning policies: politics, regions and labour marketsXavier Rambla and Marcella Milana1. Equity and social exclusion measures in EU lifelong learning policiesElena Tuparevska, Rosa Santibáñez and Josu Solabarrieta2. Youth in the context of chronic unemployment in Spain and BrazilAdriana D’Agostini and Mauro Titton3. Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groupsMarcella Milana, Gosia Klatt and Luigi Tronca4. Regional lifelong learning policies and the social vulnerability of young adults in Girona and ViennaXavier Rambla, Yuri Kazepov, Judith Jacovkis, Lukas Alexander and Marcelo Parreira Do Amaral5. Lifelong learning policies supporting young adults in two Portuguese regionsMariana Rodrigues, Rita Queiroga, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Natália Alves and Tiago Neves6. Lifelong learning policies and young adults: Considerations from two Italian case studiesMauro Palumbo and Valeria Pandolfini7. The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation: testing the assumptions for the case of ChileOscar Valiente, Adrián Zancajo and Judith Jacovkis8. The local embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatch and of lifelong learning policies for its overcomingPepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, Valentina Milenkova and Rumiana Stoilova9. Employability pathways for young adults: lived experiences of learners and practitioners in Youth Guarantee programmesEllen Boeren, Alan Mackie and Sheila Riddell

Xavier Rambla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. In the last decade he has participated in research on lifelong learning policies in the European Union and Education for All in Latin America. Further information is available here: https://geps-uab.cat/xavier-rambla/Marcella Milana is Associate professor of general and social education at the Department of Human Sciences, and since 2019, Honorary professor of adult education at the University of Nottingham, School of Education, UK. Expert in adult education and lifelong learning, her research interests focus on education policies and governance - at local, national, regional and global levels, and in a comparative perspective, for this reason she draws on multidisciplinary knowledge and collaborates also with sociologists and experts in political science. Methodologically she believes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are all needed, but is mostly devoted to qualitative research.

• Introduction — The stepping- stones of lifelong learning policies: politics, regions and labour marketsXavier Rambla and Marcella Milana1. Equity and social exclusion measures in EU lifelong learning policiesElena Tuparevska, Rosa Santibáñez and Josu Solabarrieta2. Youth in the context of chronic unemployment in Spain and BrazilAdriana D’Agostini and Mauro Titton3. Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groupsMarcella Milana, Gosia Klatt and Luigi Tronca4. Regional lifelong learning policies and the social vulnerability of young adults in Girona and ViennaXavier Rambla, Yuri Kazepov, Judith Jacovkis, Lukas Alexander and Marcelo Parreira Do Amaral5. Lifelong learning policies supporting young adults in two Portuguese regionsMariana Rodrigues, Rita Queiroga, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Natália Alves and Tiago Neves6. Lifelong learning policies and young adults: Considerations from two Italian case studiesMauro Palumbo and Valeria Pandolfini7. The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation: testing the assumptions for the case of ChileOscar Valiente, Adrián Zancajo and Judith Jacovkis8. The local embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatch and of lifelong learning policies for its overcomingPepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, Valentina Milenkova and Rumiana Stoilova9. Employability pathways for young adults: lived experiences of learners and practitioners in Youth Guarantee programmesEllen Boeren, Alan Mackie and Sheila Riddell

Xavier Rambla is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. In the last decade he has participated in research on lifelong learning policies in the European Union and Education for All in Latin America. Further information is available here: https://geps-uab.cat/xavier-rambla/Marcella Milana is Associate professor of general and social education at the Department of Human Sciences, and since 2019, Honorary professor of adult education at the University of Nottingham, School of Education, UK. Expert in adult education and lifelong learning, her research interests focus on education policies and governance - at local, national, regional and global levels, and in a comparative perspective, for this reason she draws on multidisciplinary knowledge and collaborates also with sociologists and experts in political science. Methodologically she believes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods are all needed, but is mostly devoted to qualitative research.

• Introduction — The stepping- stones of lifelong learning policies: politics, regions and labour marketsXavier Rambla and Marcella Milana1. Equity and social exclusion measures in EU lifelong learning policiesElena Tuparevska, Rosa Santibáñez and Josu Solabarrieta2. Youth in the context of chronic unemployment in Spain and BrazilAdriana D’Agostini and Mauro Titton3. Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groupsMarcella Milana, Gosia Klatt and Luigi Tronca4. Regional lifelong learning policies and the social vulnerability of young adults in Girona and ViennaXavier Rambla, Yuri Kazepov, Judith Jacovkis, Lukas Alexander and Marcelo Parreira Do Amaral5. Lifelong learning policies supporting young adults in two Portuguese regionsMariana Rodrigues, Rita Queiroga, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Natália Alves and Tiago Neves6. Lifelong learning policies and young adults: Considerations from two Italian case studiesMauro Palumbo and Valeria Pandolfini7. The coordination of skill supply and demand in the market model of skill formation: testing the assumptions for the case of ChileOscar Valiente, Adrián Zancajo and Judith Jacovkis8. The local embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatch and of lifelong learning policies for its overcomingPepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, Valentina Milenkova and Rumiana Stoilova9. Employability pathways for young adults: lived experiences of learners and practitioners in Youth Guarantee programmesEllen Boeren, Alan Mackie and Sheila Riddell