Paper short abstract:

National educational projects for adults indicate State’s plans for the future by strongly affecting citizens’ future. People that participate to LLL project in Greece challenge state’s future plans weaving both their future as well as the one of the state’s through alternative temporalities of statehood.

Paper long abstract:

Life Long Learning Project (in Greek Διά Βίου Μάθηση) in Greece is a Nation - State strategic plan which focuses on connecting adults with labor market through education. Amongst its official purposes are both the decline of social inequalities and the improvement of state's human resources. The main point is to re-orient people's choices towards labor market needs by providing them 'new' skills. Such projects indicate State's plans for the future by strongly affecting citizens' future. Before 2008 in Greece such projects were known as adults' education or just as seminars on several tasks and courses for self improvement while there were many others related to academic activities under the notion of Ancient Greek Athenian philosopher Socrates argument " live and learn" ("γηράσκω αεί διδασκόμενος"). However, nowadays such certifications are valuable and recommended especially for unemployed or uneducated people. The Ministry for Education in 2012 called local governance organizations to cooperate on providing Centers for Life Long Learning all over the country cultivating LLL project under a census of team working. In this paper I will explore the ways local people understand such projects, participate in them and evaluate them after a three academic period implementation of a local Center of LLL in a suburb of Athens. Furthermore, my attempt is to highlight the ways local people challenge state's future plans as well their own future visions weaving both their future as well as the one of the state's through alternative temporalities of statehood.