The article treats the political and strategic aspects of the concept of long life education, formulated by R.H. Dave in his book “The basements of permanent education” and in the Memorandum of the European Community Commission on life long education (2000). The concept policy and the strategies of the life long strategy have an international, national, sectorial, local, and personal dimension. These dimensions do not develop uniformly. On one hand, at the international and local levels such phenomena like globalization and human resources concept can stimulate the development of conceptual and operational frame, on the other hand, at the national and sectorial levels strategies can be developed, but they lack the institutional frame and the mechanism to stimulate the adults’ participation in training activities.