FLLLEX

Dissemination of FLLLEX results

FLLLEX final meeting9 May 2012Banku Augstskola of Business and Finance, Riga

Margriet de JongKHLeuven – Leuven University College

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• What is dissemination and exploitation of results?

• Why and what to disseminate?

Direct and indirect project results

• FLLLEX dissemination activities and possibilities

YOUR planning for dissemination as FLLLEX partner

Overview

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What is dissemination?(project handbook)

• Dissemination : planned process Providing information on results to key parties Occurs as and when the results become available.

• Exploitation: making use of and deriving benefit from a result:

Mainstreaming: transferring the successful results of programmes and initiatives to appropriate decision-makers in regulated local, regional, national or European systems

Multiplication: convincing individual end-users to adopt and/or apply the results of programmes and initiatives.

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Why disseminate?

• “Significant emphasis is placed on the impact of EU

co-financed projects and on the concrete plans for ensuring that what

they produce will be widely known about and widely used. The

results generated, the lessons learned and the experience gained by

each project team should be made available to the widest possible

audience”.

• “Well-planned and well-executed dissemination and exploitation ensure

that project results have a reach beyond those directly involved in

the consortium and an impact that is sustained beyond the

project's lifetime.”

Source: EACEA Lifelong Learning Programme Project handbook 2010http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/beneficiaries/2010/reporting_lifelong_learning_2010_en.php

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Direct project results:

Products

• FLLLEX Radar & user guide

• Reports

• Website

• Conference

Methods:

• Institutional self-evaluation for LLL by means of focus-groups

• Lessons learned

• Exchange of good ideas

Experiences

• experience gained by the project partners in the management and undertaking of transnational partnerships;

• experience gained by individuals, e.g. from mobility periods;

• exchange of experience and best practice through the establishment of networks.

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Indirect project results

Policy Lessons

• drawn from experience of projects that are particularly innovative or effective;

• Feed-back to inform policy making e.g. in the Lifelong Learning field within the Commission and within member States.

European Cooperation

• new or extended European partnerships;

• transnational sharing of experience and best practice;

• cross-cultural dialogue and co-operation;

• dialogue and partnerships between EU and non-EU countries.

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FLLLEX disseminationRealised activities

1. FLLLEX Radar and FLLLEX Results publications

2. Website, including all reports

3. EURASHE conference

4. Conference contributions and workshops:

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Conference contributions, articles, workshops and other realised activities

• 2011, August, Policy and performance: an analysis of Lifelong Learning policy implementation across eight countries, Paper at European Association of Institutional Research, 33rd Forum Warsaw (A. Stokes and R. Thorn)

• 2011, May 16, FLLLEX - LLL Incorporation into European HEI at the ENQA Workshop on Quality Assurance in Lifelong Learning (R. Thorn)

• 2011, February 23, Presentation of FLLLEX to delegation from University of Montenegro at K.U.Leuven (K. Vansteenhuyse)

• 2011, January, Newsletter of AQU Catalunya (El Butlletí)• 2010, October 27, Presentation of FLLLEX to meeting of representatives of Ministeries of Education at EU

(K. Vansteenhuyse)• 2010, October 6-9, Work Based Learning Partnerships: A Match Made in Heaven?, 21st Autumn meeting and

General Conference, SPACE (O. Doherty)• 2010, October 4, Studiedag Levenslang Leren (Poster presented on FLLLEX project) (K. Vansteenhuyse)• 2010, September, EUCIS Newsletter (including an article on FLLLEX)• 2010, September, Eurashe Newsletter (including article on FLLLEX)• 2010, September 17-19, EAIE - Workshop on implementing LifeLong Learning (Presentations by S. Delplace,

R. Thorn and K. Vansteenhuyse)• 2010, July 5-9,

Institutional Planning for Flexible and Distance Learning - Contextualisation and Implementation, NAIRTL Summer School 'Implementing Bologna' (A. Stokes and R. Thorn)

• 2010, April 28, FLLLEX: The impact of lifelong learning strategies on professional higher education in Europe, presentation at the Conference Meeting of the Lithuanian directors conference (LKDK), (A. Aleknavičienė)

• Souce:www.flllex.eu

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FLLLEX disseminationPlanned activities

European level:• Typologies of lifelong learning in professional higher education. Paper at EARLI

SIG 14 conference Learning and Professional Development, Aug 2012, Antwerp (B) (Sigrid Nindl)

Flanders:• Workshop on FLLLEX Radar at LNO2 conference, Flemish network of

educational developers in higher education• Article in regional magazine of VOKA – Flanders’ centre of commerce and

industry• Presentation of FLLLEX Radar and Results at KULeuven Association

(partnership of 12 HEI’s) workgroup for continuing education

In cooperation with VLHORA (to be discussed further):• Send copy of FLLLEX-Radar and results report to all professional HEI’s• Workshop for Flemish professional HEI’s on FLLLEX-Radar

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Your dissemination activities?

Partners are requested to:1. List your realised dissemination activities

2. Plan intended dissemination activities:

For HEI’s: How to communicate project results to: partner HEI’s (national level). Other stakeholders in your broader network

For other partners: How to transfer results to decision-makers (mainstreaming) How to convince end-users to apply the FLLLEX-radar

(multiplication)

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To do for all FLLLEX partners:

• Please send :1. 1 June: A plan for dissemination of results (see format) before 1 June

2. 1 July: A list of realised dissemination and exploitation activities (include evidence, link or document)

• Hands-on today:Brainstorm on dissemination plan for your organisation Groups of 2 – 4 Use format to note intended dissemination activities Target group, content, method, timing (estimated) Hand over to Margriet for a copy (will be returned)

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Example ofdraft dissemination plan:

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Target groupTarget group size

What(content, topic)

How(activity)

When

1 Employers (regional): regional chamber of commerce

? Project results and policy recommendations

Invited article in magazine

June ‘12

2 Educational development staff in HEI’s (Flemish network of colleagues).

? How to use the FLLEX-Radar & self-evaluation process at KHLeuven

Workshop on conference

June ‘12

3 Partner HEI’s in KULeuven Ass. : persons responsible for continuing education

12 HEI’s

Project results and recommendations + FLLLEX Radar

Presentation June ‘12

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Dissemination plan:

• Hands-on today:Brainstorm on dissemination plan for your organisation Groups of 2 – 4 Use format to note intended dissemination activities Target group, content, method, timing (estimated) Hand over to Margriet for a copy (will be returned) Today’s draft version should be followed up by a dissemination plan

per mail (1st of june).

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