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Negotiations continue to achieve an agreement before the summer about the Erasmus for All programme
On 15 February 2013, the EU's education ministers discussed Erasmus for All, the reformed student exchange programme, and the contribution of education to creating jobs and growth.
Erasmus for All is a proposal for an integrated programme in the areas of education, training, youth and sport for 2014-2020. It brings together in a single programme activities previously covered by a number of separate programmes (including the Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus Mundus and Youth in Action) and also includes activities in a new area of European competence: sport.
The new programme aims to continue focussing on three types of key actions, namely:
• the learning mobility of individuals;
• cooperation on innovation and good practices; and
• support for policy reform.
There are also a number of innovative proposals, such as the Erasmus Master's degree student loan guarantee scheme - aiming to promote mobility and access to affordable finance for students taking their Master's degree in another member state -, knowledge alliances and sector skill alliances.
The programme also aims to support the EU's efforts to overcome one of the most difficult economic periods in its history, notably by aligning itself very closely with the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs, in which education and training play an essential part.
The negotiations between the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission started on 19 February 2013. The Irish Presidency hopes to achieve an agreement before the summer, which would enable important preparatory work by the Commission to be completed in time for the programme to begin, as proposed, on 1 January 2014.
TRAILER: Tagging, recognition and acknowledgment of informal learning experiences
This paper appears in the post-proceedings of The International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE 2012) in IEEE Xplore.
The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, have for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts.
However, the nature of formal and non-formal, course-based, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved.
TRAILER project aims to address this problem by developing a tool for the management of competences and skills acquired through informal learning experiences, both from the perspective of the user and the institution or company. This paper describes the research and development main lines of this project.
MOOC: Resultados reales
This article was originally published on the online journal Revista Educacion Virtual.
Las universidades tratan de ampliar sus fronteras en todo el mundo gracias a los MOOC. Sin embargo, aunque todo el mundo se está haciendo preguntas como ¿Cuáles son las ventajas y desventajas de los MOOC? ¿Como podemos hacer frente a las certificaciones? ¿Cómo podemos sacar un rendimiento monetario a este tipo de cursos?, etc. Lo más importante es conocer por qué surge este nuevo modelo de educación y cuáles son los resultados tras este tsunami inicial.
ICERI2013 (6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation)
You are invited to participate in ICERI2013 (6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation). It will be held in Seville (Spain) on the 18th, 19th and 20th of November 2013.
It will be the best opportunity to present and share your experiences in the fields of Education, Research and Innovation in a multicultural and enriching atmosphere.
The attendance of 700 participants from more than 75 countries is expected.
There will be 3 presentation modalities: Oral, Poster or Virtual.
The deadline for abstracts submission is July 11th, 2013.
Abstracts should be submitted on-line at http://www.iceri2013.org/online_submission
For more information about the conference and its venue, you can visit our website www.iceri2013.org
Tools for Monitoring Urban Integration: UNITE Project
The UniteEurope project provides Social Media tools and makes software available to policymakers working on integaration of third-country nationals. Users of the UniteEurope tool can save, monitor and track specific integration cases to measure impact and to predict the effect of future decisions.
UniteEurope takes citizen generated content, mass data related to integration issues, and existing platforms, but then acts as an intelligent filter. Its aggregation architecture delivers relevant information for policy makers to support sustainable social integration.
Its grid model with multi-layer logic patterns is used for consistent categorisation of relevant integration areas (e.g. education, business, culture) in cities. Coherent layers with multilingual semantic tags, significant sources and parameters form the basis of this tool, and are supported with information on web-based dashboards and intuitive visualisations.
Additionally, identified target groups and policy makers at a European level are provided with aggregated data and key figures to monitor urban integration in Europe and identify good practices for specific areas of integration. UniteEurope supports operational integration measures and strategic policy development at regional and pan-European level.
The UniteEurope team consists of system architects, software developers, E-Government, Social Media and integration experts from leading universities, competence centres, companies and three European cities considering integration an agenda priority.
Roadshow "Retention Management via eLearning" in München
Bei unserer Top-Roadshow speziell für Personalmanager geht es um folgende Punkte:
- Wie erfolgreiches Retention Management gestaltet werden kann
- Wie Sie mit konkreten Maßnahmen die Einstellung Ihrer Mitarbeiter zum Unternehmen positiv beeinflussen und die Mitarbeiterbindung aktiv steuern können
- Welche Rolle Personalentwicklung und eLearning dabei spielen können
Die Veranstaltung dauert von 12.00 bis 14:30 Uhr, inklusive Lunch-Buffet.
Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung unter
http://www.skillsoft.de/roadshow/
Um einen echten Austausch zu ermöglichen, ist die Teilnehmerzahl auf 20 Personen begrenzt.
Über Ihre Teilnahme würden wir uns sehr freuen!
Viele Grüsse,
Kerstin Stengel, MBA
SkillSoft NETg GmbH
eLearning Lösungen
Niederkasseler Lohweg 189
D-40547 Düsseldorf
Tel. +49 (0) 211 1 64 33
E-Mail: kerstin_stengel(at)skillsoft(dot)com
Webinar zu MS Office 2010-Schulung via eLearning
In unserem Webinar am 26.4.2013 beschäftigen wir uns mit den Schulungsanforderungen einer Office 2010-Migration und stellen die entsprechenden eLearning-Lösungen dazu vor:
- eLearning Curriculum mit Umsteiger- und Einsteiger-Kursen
- Online-Bücher
- Das Microsoft Office 2010 KnowledgeCenter, ein benutzerfreundliches Lernportal, in dem alle Ressourcen gebündelt zur Verfügung stehen
- Interaktiv, detailliert und mehrsprachig!
Wann? Freitag, den 26. April 2013 um 9:30 Uhr
Dauer: 30 Minuten - plus Diskussion - Bruttolänge max. 45 Minuten.
Wo? An Ihrem PC mit Internet-Anschluss!
Viele Grüße,
Kerstin Stengel, MBA
Skillsoft NETg GmbH
eLearning Lösungen
Niederkasseler Lohweg 189
D-40547 Düsseldorf
Tel. +49 (0) 211 1 64 33
Better eBusiness: EU-China Exchange Programme
The eBEREA runs a joint exchange programme dedicated to advance eBusiness research and higher education in EU and China. The programme, implemented by a network of five EU universities and three universities in China, reinforces existing research collaboration through seconding and hosting researchers.
The aim is to actively transfer knowledge and develop sustainable collaboration between EU and China in research and in education. The focus of this exchange programme is electronic business (eBusiness), more specifically business modelling and design; related financial services for consumers and citizens; and the institutional arrangements such as regulation and trust enhancing mechanisms on advocating the aforementioned topics for prospering eSociety.
Call for independent experts for the European Commission's Safer Internet Programme
The European Commission has opened the Call for Independent Experts for the Safer Internet Programme 2009-2013.
The Safer Internet Programme aims to empower and protecting children and young people online by awareness raising initiatives and by fighting illegal and harmful content and conduct over the internet.
The tasks of the experts include assisting the European Commission in evaluating proposals submitted in response to calls and the review of individual Safer Internet projects, as well as legacy projects funded under the Safer Internet plus programme. Experts included in the database will be assigned specific tasks on a case-by-case basis, according to the relevance of their education, expertise and interests in the tasks at hand.
The Call is open until 30 September 2013, and the list of experts will remain valid until December 31st.
Experts are entitled to a payment in the form of a lump sum per day of work and reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses in accordance with the scales valid at the time of signature of the agreement with the Commission.
A document with the specifications and conditions of the Call for Independent Experts for the Safer Internet Programme 2009-2013 is available here (only in English).
Applicants who are already on the list of experts drawn up for the implementation of the Safer Internet plus programmes (call for experts 2005-2009) must submit a new application.
Only online applications are accepted for this call. Click here to register as a new expert or update an existing profile.
EUNEC statements on the European Commission Communication ‘Rethinking education'
The European Network of Education Councils (EUNEC) has issued a statement as a reaction to the European Commission’s recent Communication “Rethinking education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes.”
On 20 November 2012 the European Commission published a set of policy recommendations to reinforce the cooperation between EU Member States and give a new impetus to education policy. The most important part of the proposal is the Communication “Rethinking education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes”, where the EC takes the opportunity to gather all aspects of European Education and Training policy in an encompassing framework and to give some new impetus.
As a first reaction to this Communication, EUNEC issued on April 2013 a document with comments and recommendations regarding the EC’s text, stressing the need for a broad approach of education and training policy.
“Sustainability, social cohesion, equal opportunities and a development oriented approach are as important as the labour market orientation. EUNEC cannot support an approach to Education and Training that is exclusively labour market oriented”, says the statement.
The lack of attention to the role of school communities and school groups in the Communication and the lack of transparency of the decisions are also issues of concern for EUNEC.