# Today`s importance of an European Corporate Learning Award

*https://www.hrm.de/todays-importance-of-an-european-corporate-learning-award/ — 2012-03-16*

**Today`s importance of an European Corporate Learning Award**  
   
 From “Subprime Knowledge” to meaningful Life Long Learning  
 One lesson from the financial and economic crisis seems to be that not everyone  
 wants to learn from it. Procedures, behaviour and regulations associated with  
 causing the crisis seem to be pretty much the same afterwards. This ought to give  
 rise to some questions. Companies employing best educated professionals and  
 claiming to be outstanding in their knowledge acted in a way that almost lead to  
 complete economic collapse. Greed and irresponsible behaviour do not sufficiently  
 explain the structural deficits that also are linked with the question of how to deal with  
 knowledge and learning. The same goes for the Lisbon Agenda. It is not enough to  
 take note of the fact of not having achieved the ambitious goals of the EU of  
 becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the  
 world.  
 Both, the dissatisfactory Lisbon process and the obvious interdependency of crisis  
 and shortcomings in institutionalized knowledge and learning frameworks make one  
 thing evident: It is not just about lack of money and about doing the same things just  
 more vigorously. It is the challenge to focus on new concepts of transdisciplinary  
 learning that allows for better judgment. This incorporates the need for efficiently  
 producing substantial results but does not mistake it for just gaining credit points or  
 for thoughtlessly delivering according to demanded figures.  
 The Leonardo Award will honour meaningful efforts that overcome knowledge  
 merely restricted to short-term solutions and learning concepts that similar to the  
 subprime crisis might be referred to as “subprime knowledge”.  
   
 More to learn about Leonardo European Award for Corporate Learning   
   
 [www.leonardo-award.eu](http://www.leonardo-award.eu)  
   
   
 *) Ursula Schneider, Austrian Professor, prime mover in Knowledge Management strategies