This workshop was organized by the EU 6th Framework Integrated Project TENCompetence. The objective of the workshop was to identify and analyse current research and technologies in the fields that provide the building blocks for the development of an open source infrastructure that contains all the services needed to support individuals, teams and organisations to (further) develop their competences, using all the distributed knowledge resources, learning activities, units of learning and learning routes/programmest that are available online.

To achieve this involves the use of open, usable and accessible services for:  the creation, sharing, discovery and use of knowledge resources, learning activities and learning paths by any individual, team or organisation.   It should also include the development, use, monitoring and maintenance of competence frameworks for the different professions or domains of knowledge.

Assessment is also a key factor and as such the assessment of competences  the registration, use and sharing of personal data (profiles, portfolios, ...) will also be developed andintegrated into the TENCompetence system. In terms of learning content, the discovery of suitable learning resources that are adapted to the users needs and profile  is also required as is the support of users to navigate through all the possible learning resources to build specific competences.

The workshop addressed these issues and many more besides including:

• Learning Design for formal and informal Lifelong Learning and Competence Development
• Knowledge Management issues related to competence development, lifelong learning or HRM
• Competence description frameworks for professions
• Monitoring (changes in) competences in professions
• Competence assessment and learner positioning
• Methods and tools for learner support in distributed environments
• Methods and tools to support peer tutoring, teaching, mentoring, coaching
• Personal data, profiles, and portable ePortfolios for competence registration Technologies for the discovery of suitable learning resources
• Collaborative filtering technologies, recommendor systems for learning
• Use of language technologies to support learning processes
• Navigational support to users in a learning network
• Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of knowledge resources
• Authoring, discovery, advise and/or exchange of learning activities or units of learning
• Open standards and specifications usable for learning networks
• Social software usable for lifelong competence development
• New social theories and practices which have implications for the CD
• Models and tools supporting work-based learning
• Personalised and collaborative trails using knowledge resources or learning activities
• Mobile support for lifelong competence development
• Semantic Web and lifelong competence development