Pia Cort is Assistant Professor in Vocational Education and Training at the Department of Education, Aarhus University. She is the national coordinator of the international Master of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management. Her field of research is LLL from a policy perspective and she has since 2005 been especially interested in processes of Europeanization and institutional change. Pia Cort furthermore has many years of experience in evaluation of education programmes and projects for e.g. the Danish Ministry of Education, the European Commission and NGOs. She is currently evaluating a major experiment project in which the Danish folk high schools are to contribute to the realization of the policy objective of making 95% of a youth cohort complete an education programme at upper secondary level.