Contemporary entrepreneurial approaches for the needs of the labor market - a review of experiential knowledge in Macedonia and several European countries

Lifelong learning is defined as an activity of learning through life, in order to improve knowledge, skills and abilities towards personal, civil, social and business perspectives. For a successful transition towards society and the economy based on knowledge, leading principle in the entire concept of learning and acquiring knowledge should be based on the process of lifelong learning. One of the concepts related with lifelong learning and knowledge is the recognition and valuation of the learning based on experience. (Recognition of prior learning - RPL). The increased social importance of RPL reflects in the need for activating the entire knowledge in the society, based on knowledge, in the migration of the population, in the focus of the total increased representation of the elderly population, in the desire to increase the quality human capital and the creation of better possibilities for development of all the members of society. In following paper, systems of validation of informal and non-formal learning in several European countries and the concept of such systems will be presented. The purpose of this Analysis is to contribute to the development of VNFIL(Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning) process in Macedonia by offering a targeted comparative analysis of common European VNFIL models and practices with focus on EU countries. It also offers a closer look at the Macedonian validation context with focus on usage of local potentials and a possible role of the Centre for Adult Education (AEC) in this process