In 2009 there was a widening gap between the policy making process of LLL at European level with statements from various stakeholders (e.g. the European Universities Charter on LLL, the 2009 Communique of Ministers in Leuven) and the situation of Universities in their respective contexts.
The results of eucen projects like BeFlex and BeFlex+ indicated that there was a stunning diversity of LLL activities at HE level, while at the same time only a minority of universities were fully engaged in the process of integrating LLL into their institutional missions and strategies to continue the shift from University LLL activities to genuine LLL Universities as part of an overarching knowledge system for LLL.
The COMPASS project addressed these challenges and developed the following products: