Chula President Heads ASEM LLL Hub: Boosting Asia-Europe Lifelong Learning
Chulalongkorn University’s President Wilert Puriwat has been voted the new Chair of ASEM LLL Hub (Asia-Europe Meeting Lifelong Learning Hub). His term will officially start on November 18, 2025. The LLL Hub at ASEM is undergoing a notable change in leadership with the arrival of Puriwat, who is dedicated to promoting lifelong learning and adult education from institutions in Asia and Europe.
Location of the Hub
The ASEM LLL Hub is a zone where the different countries in the Eastern and Western worlds throw in their ideas for needs and issues of lifelong learning that concern them and the network. The LLL Hub has the essential attraction to create a continental and regional cohesion in the face of new and rapidly changing realities of education outside the category of upward and formal schooling.
The Hub bankrolls a collection of studies that promote aspects of education through the medium of digital technology and the publicity of authentic and attractive learning events in the learning-embracing world. Such networks focus on researchers’ and educators’ cooperation and further collaboration with experimental institutions and imposed policymaking bodies shaping educational trends in different countries.
Leadership Transition
If this assumption that he got the drive to handle the Hub is true, Wilert Puriwat will bring Europe-Asia relations to a new level, winning that hierarchy from a major university in Asia are his hands, thus possibly developing the impacts of Asia and her voice within the Hub. One of the effects of this development could be the incorporation of Asian educational policy models in the formulation of shared strategies so that the ASEM nations get educational awareness that is naturally metressed and well-balancedly shared.
Given the Hub’s extension of the official presence field into Southeast and South Asia, the chair’s locality in Asia implies that there will still be an emphasis on increasing interaction and cooperation in those parts of the world. The news may further underpin that academia and in particular, university-level institutions, in both the East and the West may deeply cooperate in facilitating cross-border research, interregional exchange programmes and policy dialogues on adult education and lifelong learning.
Lifelong learning is becoming increasingly significant worldwide as skill requirements keep changing and careers become more flexible.Thus ASEM LLL Hub offers a platform for this communication enabling countries to share research, experiences, and policies concerning lifelong learning.
Because of the huge and varied population of Asia, more representation in the Hub could help create more equitable and context-sensitive lifelong learning strategies that take into account the real needs of different societies. Moreover, the educational innovations of the future, from non-formal learning to digital education and adult learning, will be easily transportable from one continent to another. This development allows for better collaboration between universities, thus meeting the need for students as well as adults to have access to more learning opportunities.
The Hub can initiate more Asia-Europe collaborative projects under the leadership of a new Chair. These activities could involve: the creation of joint research projects, the mutual sharing of innovative ideas and strategies for life-long education through setting up workshops and conferences that involve sending faculties from both the regions and also the students and different institutions.
Researchers, institutions, and educators can work together on projects, initiate exchanges, and foster better relationships in the field of lifelong learning if this were to happen. Learners will have the greatest advantage of the international collaboration and education models as they will have more access to the opportunities.
In summary, the leadership transition signifies a move toward intensified collaboration between Asia and Europe in the field of lifelong learning. It might assist in the Hubs loosening up and gaining more trust, thus becoming useful for Asian countries which are in search of versatile learning beyond conventional classrooms.