The article tackles on the social and cultural dimension of education, illustrated in the concept of lifelong learning/ continuous formation and the developments of this type of education in a specific institution: Babeș-Bolyai, Romania. The first part introduces a theoretical background of the concept and the challenges to incorporate it under cultural policies. The paper proposes an approach of the cultural dimension on the one hand as a cause -a framework for social policies, seen from the perspective of the issues in the social area, and on the other hand as an effect -the result of such issues that lead to the inclusion of the cultural dimension on the agenda and among the priorities of the EU. The second part is a study case of a continuous formation program initiated by a higher education institution, analyzing the attempt to offer adult education to a community. It also contains a report of lifelong learning strategies integrated at Babeș-Bolyai University and a detailed report of the program that is unrolling at the moment.
As a result of the stakeholders' growing pressure and global environmental challenges, many corporations across the world have to integrate environmental issues into their strategic decision-making system and operations function. The objective of this paper is to identify to what extent the activities regarding the environmental issues are successfully integrated into general and functional strategies of a multinational company from production field. We have analyzed these aspects using the model proposed by Paul de Baker and data were collected by applying questionnaires. The results show that the highest score was obtained in the case of production strategy, while integration of environmental issues into human resource strategy is the biggest challenge that an organization has to face. The value of global diagnosis points out an average concern for integrating the environmental aspects in the overall company strategy, fact that is also confirmed by the scores obtained for each dimension and per total.
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