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STRATEGIC PLAN 2015-2017

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eucen’s Strategic Plan 2015‐2017: Objectives – Actions – Roles President’s Report presented on behalf of the Steering Committee (SC) and the eucen Secretariat to the General Assembly, Dublin, June 2016

This report is based on the strategic document prepared by the President and the Steering Committee, written as a 2 year work plan defining priorities and actions, and having in mind the question “Are we doing the right things?”. The document is structured on two parts: a first dedicated to the 3 strategic intentions announced by the presidency candidate before elections by the General Assembly in Istanbul; a second dedicated to the permanent support activities and the roles distribution.

3 STRATEGIC INTENTIONS

1) New strategic and innovative projects In years past, eucen strengthened its collaboration dynamic among its members and its influence on stakeholders in developing knowledge and skills via unique founding European projects, as EQUIPE Plus, BeFlex, IMPLEMENT, OBSERVAL, ALLUME and others. For 2015‐2017, eucen needs to launch and develop successfully new strategic projects, anchored in our research or action‐research, in collaboration with new partners from diverse sectors (both non‐for‐profit or profit) and exploring other sources of funding, for instance Horizon 2020. One member of the Steering Committee (Lucília SANTOS) is mainly in charge of the projects development and works in close collaboration with the Secretariat soliciting punctual assistance of other SC members or eucen members. The results of actions undertaken during this year are reported in the following tables.

a) List of current projects with details – see table overleaf b) List of proposals in the pipeline – see Annex 1 c) Time line of projects and proposals submitted – see Annex 2

General Assembly Dublin 2016

PAPER 1

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Current Projects Coordinated by eucen or in which eucen is Full Partner

Acronym Full title Start/End Programme eucen’s role Consortium Key words Main objectives COMMIT Committing to the

social dimension in universities

Oct2013/ May2016

ERASMUS, multilateral project

Contractor and coordinator

13 partners (all members of eucen)

ULLL strategies, Training of experts, Institutional self-evaluation

Development of self-assessing tools (accessible on-line from a moodle platform) to help universities to turn into LLL universities. Development of a tool for monitoring attainment.

VALERU Validation of non-formal and informal learning in Russian HE

Dec2013/ Nov2016

TEMPUS Full partner -dissemination

University Krems is the contractor. 13 other partners – 2 are eucen members

VNIL. Access and establishment of links in Russia

To establish mechanisms and human resources for the implementation of VNIL in Russian HE. Development of national methodological basis, development of a national platform, training of experts, piloting of validation with the Russian partners

PROMOTE Promoting and Validating Key Competences in Mobility and Traineeships in Europe

Nov2014/ Oct2016

KA2 – EAC/S11/13

Full Partner –dissemination and expertise in VNIL

Vilnius University is contractor. 16 partners (only 6 are universities, from which 2 are eucen members)

Validation. Development of competences. University-Business relation. On-line learning

To promote and validate social, personal and organisational key competences such as entrepreneurship, civic competences and learning to learn with the help of an innovative, self-directed learning approach at the interface of HE and business

MODERN

NEW!

Mobile & Digital Elearning Toolkit

Sep2015/ Aug2017

KA2 Strategic Partnership for VET

Full partner Canice Consulting is contractor and has 5 other partners (incl eucen).

Only 1 partner is eucen member

VET; HE; eLearning; Skills for teachers

To increase the ability of HEI and VET educators to pursue innovative teaching strategies supported by the intelligent use of digital learning platform. Create an online tool kit and a short course for teachers.

UNIBILITY

NEW!

University meets Social Responsibility

Oct2015/

Sep2018

KA2 Strategic partnership HE

Full partner –dissemination

University of Vienna is contractor + eucen + 5 other universities.

4 partners are eucen members

Social responsibility; University-Business cooperation; Volunteering; minorities

The UNIABILITY project seeks to implement active CSR-measures between universities and local communities / businesses.



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Acronym Full title Start/End Programme eucen’s role Consortium Key words Main objectives TANDEM

NEW!

Flexible pathways connecting VET and HE by taking into consideration the demands of labour market

Jan2016/ Dec2017

KA3 –

Call 33/2014

Full partner EVBB is contractor. 4 other organisations apart from eucen are partners (not universities or eucen members)

VET Project designed to contribute to the debate on reform by drawing lessons from existing good practices of consortium partners, strengthening the connection between policymakers and practitioners = business and educational community

HE4u2

NEW!

Integrating cultural diversity in HE

Jan2016/

Dec2018

KA3 –

Call 33/2014

Contractor and coordinator

7 eucen members. 1 non-member

Inclusion; Equity; Dialogue,

Contribution to the reform of teaching and learning HE and improvement in retention and attainment of migrants and students from ethnic minorities background.

Projects in which eucen is Associate Partner without a specific duty and without a budget

Acronym Full title Programme Consortium Key words Main objectives

SEA-ABT South East Asia Academy for Beverage Technology

KA2 Capacity Building in HE

Contractor: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (AT)

Knowledge transfer, competences and skills

To give to the Thai University Education System tools to establish adequate courses to train students for the beverage industry

AGSMART New paths for smart agricultural engineering in the Balkans

KA2 Capacity Building in HE

Contractor: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (AT)

Curricula development; LLL; Management systems

Increasing capacities of Balkan Universities for delivering modern high quality curricula and LLL in agricultural engineering and sustainable management systems



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The main criteria for a eucen project involvement or development are: 1) alignment with eucen mission ‘Is the project a project for eucen ?’ 2) degree of risks in implementing the outcomes, project management and partnership management 3) availability of competencies and expertise 4) reinforcement of members relationships with a special attention for new members Moreover the project has to fit the call criteria (e.g. in terms of geographical dispersion …) The forthcoming actions are:

a) Follow‐up and watch up of the European Calls, and exploration of new sources of projects. We are looking at Horizon 2020 and/or specific demands or expectations of DGEAC regarding modernisation of Education and Innovation. We would like to develop a large project including several sub‐projects where a large number of members could contribute via consultation.

b) We have in mind to launch a survey after Dublin Conference for the next calls (expected after November 2016) c) The SC decided to write the project decision process and to make explicit the criteria

2) Consolidating eucen’s role at European level eucen is already active at European level (e.g. our involvement in the LLL Platform1 or as one of the six VET providers Associations in the advice board for DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion). Supporting the development of “inclusive, innovative and reflective societies” as written in Horizon2020 plan2 (VET, VNIL, Social Dimension of ULLL). eucen will develop position papers and policy recommendations3, looking at the EU policy agenda and monitoring EU activities (Contributions to EC Policy development).

1 Previously called EUCIS‐LLL 2 http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020‐section/europe‐changing‐world‐inclusive‐innovative‐and‐reflective‐societies 3 Collected information from the SC and the ULLL National Networks in February and submited a global view (see point D in page 4)



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A) EU GROUP(S) WITH WHICH EUCEN HAS ESTABLISHED REGULAR AND STRONG CONTACT

Area DG eucen Conditions Length Contact person

Responsible Other Actions and status

VET Employment Social Affairs and Inclusion

Alfredo SOEIRO Jean‐Marie FILLOQUE

Unlimited time. DG EMPL (Unit C5) cover costs T&S

Unlimited Formalised participation in April 2015

Anna Barbieri

João SANTOS Dana BACHMANN

VET4EU2 group with EfVET, EUproVET, EBVV, EVTA and EURASHE Website by eucen

‐ Mandate to Alfredo SOEIRO & Jean‐Marie FILLOQUE confirmed until June 2017 ‐ Lucília SANTOS nominated SC link

J‐MF ‐ attended meeting: Brussels, 30 October 2015 AS ‐ attended meetings: EU ministerial meeting and Riga VET Declaration (Riga, 22 June 2015), EURASHE VET‐HE Permeability (Glasgow, 12‐13 November 2015), Experts VET Providers meeting (Brussels, 27 May 2016)

B) PEOPLE/GROUPS WITH WHOM eucen COULD CREATE/REINFORCE RELATIONS

The SC identified EC key people to be met in order to present eucen, eucen activities and products and to identify with them our potential contributions. A specific leaflet is created to support this work (see ‘eucen for EU’ in Annex 3) The results of our actions are for the moment the following ones:

‐ DG EAC – Adam TYSON Unit B Modernisation of Education (Education Policy and programme, Innovation) Meeting in Brussels FdV/KS/CR4 took place 17 November 2015. As an immediate outcome, Mr Tyson confirmed his participation in eucen’s conference in Dublin 2016 as keynote speaker. However, a last minute emergency has forced him to cancel this engagement. His Deputy Director will represent him, Ms Margie WATERS.

4 Françoise DE VIRON/Kari SEPPÄLÄ/Carme ROYO



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‐ CoR – Committee of the Regions – Markku MARKKULA, President. KS invitation to present CoR activities and projects during Brussels Autumn Seminar. Meeting in Brussels KS/FdV/CR took place 16 November 2015, to identify potential collaboration. As a result, it was agreed to organise the Policy Talks in the premises of the CoR.

‐ DG EAC – Chiara Gariazzo Unit A Modernisation of Education (Europe 2020, E+ coordination, Erasmus +) FdV/KS/CR had organised a meeting in Brussels with DG Employment for 05 April 2016 but was cancelled because of Brussels terrorist attack.

‐ KS – active participation in Cedefop’s workshop 'Fostering partnerships for continuing training’ (11‐12 February 2016)

Other meetings will be pursued the forthcoming year.

C) POLICY TALKS

In order to improve eucen visibility on European scene, the SC decided to organise once per year an event dedicated to EU Policy makers and European LLL stakeholders located in Brussels: ‘eucen Policy Talks’. The main objective are to make eucen activities known, to promote eucen expertise and to create new contacts and collaboration opportunities. The principles of this event are the following: located in Brussels, based on projects’ results and recommendations, and organised with help from the LLL Platform as we are member of it. The target people are: policy makers (EC, Parliament members, Committee of Regions, members, …) and key stakeholders such as EUA, EURASH, ESU, ENQA, EAN, etc. One member of the SC (BN) is nominated for the Policy Talks organization. The first one was planned on April 4 April 2016 but was unfortunately cancelled due to dramatic terrorist attacks in Brussels few days before. FdV/KS/CR revised the plan for presenting eucen results in Dublin, during the conference.

D) EU MODERNISATION CONSULTATION: eucen contribution

The SC decided to contribute actively to the consultation launched by EC (December 2015). All eucen members, Universities and National Networks were invited via eucen website to contribute to this consultation. Furthermore, the SC developed a response on behalf of the association, taking into account National Network contributions and eucen objectives. Kari SEPPÄLÄ gathered a final contribution posted to EC and sent to Adam TYSON in reference of our visit.

E) FLYER : eucen FOR EUROPE

A specific tool was created to describe the relevance of eucen activities and outcomes for the stakeholders of Europe – see Annex 3



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3) Knowledge transfer improvement within EUCEN ‘s members and outside eucen is a wonderful treasure of knowledge and know‐how in University Lifelong Learning. Members with their own expertise and practices are obviously the main intellectual assets of our network: How could we make this expertise visible and accessible to any member? How could members be in contact rapidly with each other when they are working on the same subject? In a more prospective way, how to identify the information we have and use, or should have and use for our own purposes (eucen strategy) or for EU purposes (EU strategy)? How to be connected with Rectors and Presidents of eucen members and engage them in eucen activities? Three trails are currently identified and could be pursued.

i. Services (e.g. proposal to Malaysian universities, …) ii. Tools on the web iii. Networks and associations: eucen membership

A) A MOTO See Annex 4

B) FLYER: eucen for members See Annex 5

C) A VIDEO An innovative publicity tool has been created. It allows us to explain in 2 minutes what eucen is and what we do.

D) INFORMATIVE POSTERS OF CURRENT PROJECTS A set of informative posters for each current project in which eucen participate has been prepared to disseminate our activity in events

E) PRESENTATIONS/PARTICIPATION BY INVITATION IN EUROPE CR ‐ panellist at the CRUE (Conference of Spanish Rectors) debate “LLL and the dual education” in Boadilla del Monte, 14 July 2015 J‐MD ‐ representation of eucen at the Forum on RPL in volunteering activities organised by the LLL Platform in Brussels, July 2015 CR/J‐MF ‐ participation in the Forum for Education, Training and Youth in Brussels, 19‐20 October 2015 KS ‐ key note presentation in the National Meeting of RUIAP‐network Rome, 29 October 2015 CR ‐ panellist at the DISCUSS project conference in Munich, 30 October 2015



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KS ‐ key note presentation in the National Meeting of UCEF network Helsinki 4 November 2015 J‐MF ‐ representation of eucen in the CEDEFOP Seminar “Learning providers and the competitiveness challenge: promoting Quality in

education and training delivery at EU level”, and presentation in the session “Linking general/HE and VET: a common framework for accreditation?” in Thessalonica 09‐11 December 2015

AS – representation of eucen and panellist in the Expert Seminar on Learning Providers and the Quality of Learning Delivery, CEDEFOP ‐ Thessaloniki, 10‐11 December 2015

J‐MD ‐ representation of eucen at the LLL Agora in Mechelen 07‐08 March 2016 FdV ‐ audio address to the audience in 12th MELLearN Lifelong Learning Conference 21 April 2016 KS ‐ key note presentation in 12th MELLearN Lifelong Learning Conference 21 April 2016 KS ‐ video discussion about COMMIT project results and social engagement of universities in the Meeting of UCEF Helsinki 21 April 2016 ChR ‐ presentation during the Spanish National Network Conference (RUEPEP) in Bilbao 27‐29 April 2016 AdF ‐ presentation in the ASIIN International Conference “Quality Management in Higher Education‐ the Mystery of its untapped potential.

How to jointly tackle the remaining grand challenges?“ in Berlin 3‐4 May 2016 CR ‐ presentation during the seminar “Bureaucracy in our institutions. Quality assurance or limits of autonomy?” in Gdansk 16 May 2016 CR ‐ presentation during the conference “What is new in the Bologna Process organised by the Bologna Follow up group in Poland, Warsaw

17 May 2016 AdF ‐ representation of eucen at the IACEE World Conference “Innovation in Continuing Professional Development: a vision of the future” in

Porto 17‐20 May 2016 J‐MF ‐ Advisory board member on behalf of eucen for the IACEE World Conference 2016

F) OTHER ACTIONS TAKEN KS ‐ eucen enquiry 2016: material collected from the National Networks in April/May 2016. Results to be disseminated in the National Network Forum in Dublin in June 2016.



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G) MEMBERS REPRESENTING EUCEN IN OTHER FORUMS OUTSIDE THE EU

eucen is member of the LLL Platform, RECLA, UPCEA etc and is setting up mutual membership with AAACE (American Association for Adult and Continuing Education) and maybe others if are found useful and complementary to eucen’s work lines

Charo ROMANO has a mandate to represent eucen in RECLA (the Latin American network for LLL) Jean‐Marie DUJARDIN has been appointed to represent eucen in the LLL Platform Seamus O’TUOMA has been invited to be eucen’s Ambassador at the AAACE activities Alfredo SOEIRO is informally the link with IACEE (International Association for Continuing Engineering Education)

eucen was presented to USA in a Webinar for UPCEA members and to Latin America in a Webinar for RECLA members. Ahidoba DE FRANCHI, Carme ROYO and Alfredo SOEIRO were the presenters in both activities.

eucen was represented in RECLA by Charo ROMANO during their annual conference in Guadalajara (Mexico), 30Sep‐02Oct 2015



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PERMANENT SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

1) Events a) eucen Annual Conferences b) eucen Autumn Seminars c) eucen Policy Talks

2) Finance a) Annual budgets b) Annual accounts c) Membership fees

3) Membership management a) New applications b) National Network

4) Secretariat Activities (Barcelona office) a) Day‐to‐day business

i. Finance ii. Legal and Formal issues iii. Membership

the SC made a test outsourcing for promoting eucen to new members, to give support to our General Secretary. But it was not conclusive.

iv. Front‐line b) Communication (social media, websites, publicity materials, etc) c) Collaboration with the SC: solution driven mode using clear deadlines and expectations d) Projects

i. proposal preparing: Engagement with external support, if needed. Planning and developing of ideas. Engagement of needed partners. Successful submission.



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ii. invitations to join others’ ideas: First assessment on interest. Discussion with SC members or eucen members. Communication of decision. iii. requests for counselling/help: First assessment on interest. Discussion with SC members or eucen members. Communication of decision. iv. project management (either as coordinators of eucen projects or as partners in others’ projects)

eucen PEOPLE 1) Current Steering Committee

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS AREAS OF INTEREST/EXPERTISE Françoise DE VIRON – President Catholique University of Louvain (BE)

Strategy in ULLL | Inclusion, VNIL | Learning and Knowledge Transfer | Business-University partnership | ULLL course design

Kari SEPPÄLÄ – Vice‐President University of Turku (FI)

Specialization studies | Social engagement | Exports of education | Fund-raising | Quality in ULLL

Ahidoba DE FRANCHI MANDSCHEFF – Secretary General University of Geneva (CH)

Quality in ULLL | Quality of online learning | UCE centres | Training of ULLL staff | EQF, NQF, learning outcomes | ULLL course design

Charo ROMANO – Treasurer Rovira i Virgili University (ES)

ULLL course design | Quality in ULLL| UCE management | Business-University partnership | Inclusion | ULLL National Networks | VET

Tamer ATABARUT – Strengthening international relations Bogaziçi University (TR)

Partnership with stakeholders (private, public, NGOs, VET, etc) | VET | CSR | National Networks | NEET | Policies and strategies | Sustainability | UCE Centres establishment

Balázs NÉMETH – Strengthening policy relations University of Pécs (HU)

Policy developments and strategy building in HE based adult and lifelong learning | Learning cities and regions | Quality in ULLL | National networking in ULLL | Social engagement

Lucília SANTOS – Projects University of Aveiro (PT)

UCE centres | VET, apprenticeships | VNFIL, RPL | ULLL course design | HE teaching and learning

Helmut VOGT – EUCIS‐LLL and marketing University of Hamburg (DE)

(mandate finished 31 March 2016)

ULLL | Financing of ULLL/UCE | Distance Education and E-Learning in ULLL/UCE | Institutions and Institutional Structure for ULLL/UCE | National Networks for ULLL/UCE



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Duties and Responsibilities Period June 2015‐June 2017 Key: TBA – to be appointed; M – formal mandate; SCD – Decided during a SC meeting; IN – informal nomination; * – leader of the team

Activity Steering Committee link Approach External link Approach

TOPICS

VET4EU2 group (DG Employment) Lucília SANTOS* Tamer ATABARUT

SCD SCD

Alfredo SOEIRO Jean‐Marie FILLOQUE (until September 2016)

M M

The LLL Platform [TBA] – Jean‐Marie DUJARDIN M RECLA (Latin American network for CE) Charo ROMANO M n/a – AAACE (American Association for CE) Tamer ATABARUT SCD Seaums O’TUOMA M IACEE (International Association for CE Engineering) Tamer ATABARUT SCD Alfredo SOEIRO IN Business‐University link (EC) Françoise DE VIRON SCD n/a – ASEM‐LLL (Association for LLL Asia) Balazs NEMETH SCD n/a – Pascal Observatory Balazs NEMETH SCD n/a –

EVEN

TS

eucen Autumn Seminar 2015 Ahidoba DE FRANCHI* Françoise DE VIRON

SCD n/a –

eucen Policy Talks Balazs NEMETH Françoise DE VIRON Carme ROYO

SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

Dublin 2016 Conference Kari SEPPALA* Françoise DE VIRON

SCD SCD

Maria SLOWEY IN

eucen Autumn Seminar 2016 Ahidoba DE FRANCHI* Tamer ATABARUT

SCD SCD

n/a –

Mainz 2017 Conference Balazs NEMETH* Tamer ATABARUT

SCD SCD

n/a –

eucen Autumn Seminar 2017 Lucília SANTOS* Ahidoba DE FRANCHI

SCD SCD

n/a –



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Activity Steering Committee link Approach External link Approach PR

OJECT

S

COMMIT Françoise DE VIRON Kari SEPPALA Lucília SANTOS

SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

HE4u2 Françoise DE VIRON Kari SEPPALA

SCD SCD

Josephine FINN SCD

MODERN n/a – Alfredo SOEIRO SCD TANDEM Balazs NEMETH

Tamer ATABARUT SCD IN

Alfredo SOEIRO (official link to the VET4EU2 group)

IN

VALERU n/a – Jean‐Marie FILLOQUE IN PROMOTE n/a – n/a – UNIBILITY n/a – n/a – New proposals Lucília SANTOS*

Balazs NEMETH Tamer ATABARUT Carme ROYO

SCD SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

New proposals in Turkey Tamer ATABARUT* Carme ROYO Lucília SANTOS

SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

MEM

BERS

National Networks ULLL Kari SEPPALA* Balazs NEMETH Tamer ATABARUT

SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

Open Forum Charo ROMANO SCD Jean‐Marie FILLOQUE SCD Welcome to newcomers Ahidoba DE FRANCHI

Carme ROYO SCD SCD

n/a –



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Activity Steering Committee link Approach External link Approach eucen strategy 2015‐2017 Françoise DE VIRON

Kari SEPPALA Carme ROYO

SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

25th Anniversary of eucen Helmut VOGT Carme ROYO Françoise DE VIRON

SCD SCD SCD

n/a –

2) Current staff in the Secretariat Carme ROYO – Executive Director and eucen Projects Coordinator Francesca URAS – Projects Officer Jenny GILBERT – Administrative and Financial Assistant



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ANNEX 1 New Project Proposals in the pipeline where eucen has a Full Partner role


RAMSEs Refining Apprenticeships in Medium and Small Enterprises

KA3 – Support for policy reform EACEA/41/2015 Submitted 15/01 Result expected in July 2016

Contractor: eucenPartners: 9 partners (8 are eucen members)

Apprenticeship. HE. SMEs

The project intends to create or increase the engagement with high level apprenticeships among the partner institutions and their linked SMEs, jointly producing a set of tools to address the challenges of policy implementation they face and supporting local/regional/national and European networking of professionals from SMEs and HEIs to underpin further development and sustainability.

VINCE Validation for inclusion of new citizens in Europe

KA3 – Initiatives for policy innovation Submitted 30/05 Result expected September 2016

Contractor: eucenPartners:12 partners (4 are eucen members and 5 are associations/NGOs)

VPL, Social inclusion, Access, New citizens

To train individuals involved in the validation processes to approach refugees and inmigrants that might arrive to the process with non-standard situation (i.e. without accrediting documentation and with social problems at different levels)

VALUE.IL Validation of Learning in Universities and Colleges in Israel

KA2 – Capacity Building in the field of HE

Contractor: University of Krems Partners: 12 partners

VNIL To foster the internationalisation of Israeli universities and the establishment of new pedagogical approaches by creating a framework for the validation of learning and its application through e-portfolio as integrated and individualised concept of learning.

CAVAL Consistent and Accessible Validation of Prior Learning

KA2 Strategic Partnership for adult learning

Contractor: VIA University Partners: 11 partners

VNIL Development of a learner centred generative and flexible model for VPL practises, based on common basic principles, methods and tools that ensure coherent, non-fragmented and professionally organized validation arrangements

NOVAHcare New Opportunities for Volunteering At Home CARE

KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Contractor: FONDAZIONE "FRANCO DEMARCHI" Partners: 5 partners

VNIL The project aims to find ways for recognising the experience of volunteers/informal caretakers of dependent people (or relatives) and to accredit their knowledge.



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InnoVal Innovative Assessment Methods for Validation


Contractor: LLL PlatformPartners: 6 partners

VNIL. Assessment The project addresses the urgent need to offer valid & reliable assessment methods that allow all learners to have a chance at validation. It will offer a Training Programme and a set of Guidelines to implement innovative assessment methods supported by Open Educational Resources and a Toolbox of case studies.

INDEX-Pro Building competences for International Development for Evaluation in Education Professionals

KA2 – Knowledge Alliances

Contractor: Ludwig Maximilian University Partners: 12 partners

Evaluation, assessment The project will map the necessary competences of expert evaluators of educational policy in international development, through desk research and interviews with professionals, employers and stakeholders in the sector; will design a multidisciplinary learning programme, using real case studies and problem-based scenarios and create a MOOC that will be incorporated in University curricula and provide ECTS credits

QF-P Qualifications Framework as Platform for the development of learning outcomes based curriculum

KA2 – Capacity building in HE

Contractor: University of Limerick Partners: 19 partners

EQF The aims of this project is to support the reform of the HE system in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to improve the quality of education in accordance with EU standards and teaching in line with national priorities through the building of a QF Knowledge Platform (QFP). A training model for forecasting and identifying labour market needs in the area of qualifications will be developed

SR-Uni Building Social Responsibility and Awareness in European Universities

KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for HE

Contractor: Polytechnic University of Bucharest Partners: 7 partners

Social Responsibility Better understanding of University Social Responsibility inside and outside HE institutions; increasing HE institutional and ethical commitment towards sustainability in the frame of the community in which they operate; promoting the incorporation of USR strategies in the student’s curriculum and university governance



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TELLING Training EU project manager on building new narratives to disseminate European projects


Contractor: SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK. Full Partners: 6 partners Proposal suggested by PACE and PACT partners

Project management. Dissemination of existing products

To promote training offered for European project managers of KA2 E+ Strategic Partnerships projects to enhance their communication and dissemination skills, making the most out of the available online communication tools to reach a wide community of potential users in a continuous training process

HEED Higher Entrepreneurial Education

KA2 - Strategic Partnerships for HE

Contractor: UNIWERSYTET SZCZECINSKI Partners: 6 partners

Entrepreneurship The main objective of this project would be to increase the proportion of HE students acquiring an entrepreneurial mind-set and engaging in early stage entrepreneurial activity by raising awareness, improving the pedagogic capacities of HE policy makers and educators and facilitating improved collaboration with other actors in the entrepreneurship ecosystem

ThiFA Team Class Coaching Model

Contractor: Bogaziçi University Partners: 7 partners

Coaching, training trainers, improved learning environments

The main aim of this project is to equip the educators with the TeaClaC model which is a prospect coaching model enabling a class act as a “team” donned with leadership skills and communication abilities based on Berne’s transactional analysis, cognitive behaviour approach, learning by stimulating 5 senses, and more

INTERYoung Equity and social justice through young adults education

COST action (OC-2015-1-19386) Research programme

Contractor: UNED Partners: 25 partners.

Intercultural education; equity & social justice; Digital inclusion; Innovation; Mobilising knowledge; Research

To improve equity and social justice in Europe by mobilising intercultural education, fostering research-based future images of education and providing a networking scenario, both virtual and face-to face, to communicate, cooperate, etc.



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New Project Proposals in the pipeline where eucen is Associate Partner without a budget


CLUE Communities of Learning on innovation and sustainability in Urban Energy management

KA2 – Knowledge Alliances

Contractor: Universitat Rovira i Virgili Partners: 16 partners

Innovation, efficient energy management, smart cities

The project aims to promote innovation in higher education within a priority area of Europe 2020: efficient energy management in smart cities. The project will: a) improve systemic intelligence by bringing together partners from education, municipalities and enterprises; b) increase the effectiveness of innovative teaching and learning methods jointly developed by the partners and relevant stakeholders; c) help municipalities meet their social innovation skill needs; and, d) give insights to public authorities in the design and implementation of creative policies to drive efficient and sustainable urban energy management.

Other initiatives which eucen has agreed to give support


EIP-AHA European Innovation partnership on Active and healthy ageing

Call for Reference sites

Leading institution: University of Porto

Healthy Ageing The project aims to establishing reference sites in Europe in the field of Healthy Ageing, in the pillars: Prevention, Screening and Early Diagnosis, Care and Cure, Active and Independent Living.



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ANNEX 2 Time line of projects and submitted proposals

CURRENT PROJECTS

2016 2017 2018 J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D

COMMIT* PROMOTE VALERU MODERN TANDEM UNIBILITY HE4u2*

SUBMITTED PROPOSALS AWAITING DECISION

2016 2017 2018 2019 O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D RAMSEs* VINCE* VALUE.IL CAVAL NOVAHcare InnoVal INDEX-Pro QF-P SR-Uni TELLING HEED



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ANNEX 3 A copy of this leaflet is inside your conference pack.



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ANNEX 4 eucen motto 2016.



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ANNEX 5 A copy of this leaflet is inside your conference pack.

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