I had the unenviable task of chairing the Learning Interoperability Framework Europe (LIFE) discussion booklet. On the whole, I believe the session went reasonably well, indeed Frans Van Asche, said it had been the most successful EUN discussion around these themes. It did strike me that there were a number of EU ministry policy advisers present and I guess many understood very little of what we were talking about (confirmed by a discussion with a french colleague at the end of the event). I tried to encourage questioning with limited success, I’m sure many present were embarrassed to ask even “simple” questions.http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/interoperability/developments/life_final_roadmap.htm

Reflecting on this issue, we do need to reflect on the on the language and vocabulary we use when addressing  this kind of (mixed) audience, we need to engage more people in the general discussion.

Overall I enjoyed the conferenc and manged to have meaningful discussions (round the watercooler ) with many European colleagues ( Including one of the commisioners).