Desk Officer, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Bonn, Germany
Eckart Lilienthal is Desk Officer at the German Education and Research Ministry’s Division of Basic Policy Issues and Internationalization Strategy, where he is responsible for inventing new mechanisms of (co-) financing lifelong learning, maintaining regional networks of lifelong learning, recognition of prior learning, and guidance and counselling. He previously worked in research, as a teacher, as a designer of e-learning products, and as a project manager at a regional employers’ foundation for education to integrate young people with little formal qualification into the workplace.