The DEHEMS Consortium (an acronym for ‘Network for the Development of Higher Education Management Systems’) organised the Second DEHEMS International Conference: ‘Employability of Graduates & Higher Education Management Systems’ in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 27 & 28. September, 2012.
This guide has been produced as part of the UK National Team of ECVET Experts project. The Austrian ECVET guide ‘Let’s Go Europe!’ prepared by 3s (Karin Luomi-Messerer) and ibw was used as one of the sources for preparing the UK guide.
The latest issue of the QALLL project newsletter ( ‘QualityAssurance in LifeLongLearning with a Focus on Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education’) informs about current developments in the European thematic network netECVET, which seeks to offer practical help for the application of ECVET (European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training) in transnational mobilities.
The final QALLL Conference took place November 5th – 6th in Vienna, Austria. The conference focused on Quality Assurance (QA) in vocational education and training and adult education. QA best practices and case studies have been central at the final QALLL conference. Interactive working groups and themed islands offered the possibility to network and learn about QALLL activities.
All organisations in Europe working in the sector of the Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning (VNIL) are invited to submit case studies for the OBSERVAL-Net Validation Prize, which will be awarded in three categories in October 2013. The categories are the ‘Bottom Up Approach’, ‘New Profession’ and ‘Work-based Competence Development and Recognition’.
3s (Sigrid Nindl) was invited to write a peer country comments paper and to take part at a peer review on 24th/25th of September 2012 in Berlin, hosted by the German Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs.
The European Commission workshop “The continuing vocational training and adult education component of Lifelong learning: new needs for research and policy development” was jointly organised by DG RTD and DG EAC and took place on 27 September 2012 in Brussels.
About 60 representatives and stakeholders of the European Commission, Ministries, Public Employment Services, Education and Training Institutions as well as Research Centres participated in the conference, which took place in Rome on the 18th of October 2012.
The Cross-Sectoral Reference Group (CSRG), set up early in 2012, engaged in initial research which culminated in the development of a first draft model for cross-sectoral skills in ESCO. That preparatory work paved the way for an in-depth empirical study which was carried out by Claudia Plaimauer (3s) and Elizabeth McSkeane between July and October 2012.
The EQUAL-CLASS project which will analyse qualifications from several different angles, curricula, students, and graduates, has started this week in Baden (CH). The project partnership successfully discussed the ZOOM methodology which will be used for the comparison of qualifications. Moreover the instrument of ‘Remote Labs’ – online laboratories to remotely conduct real experiments – has been introduced.