EURASHE will organise an EU Validation Seminar on Defining Professional Higher Education (PHE) on 5 February 2014 in Brussels (Belgium). More information on this page on:

Defining Professional Higher Education (PHE) 

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Registrations 

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Defining Professional Higher Education (PHE)

In the first phase of the HAPHE project, we have made an advanced research on the current state of PHE in Europe, through a desk research and a wide survey with more than 600 stakeholders involved. These results are presented in the publication Professional Higher Education in Europe. 

Afterwards, an expert team has worked on a definition and a set of characteristics for PHE and has consulted various stakeholders throughout Europe. 

This EU Validation Seminar will bring together main stakeholders in the field, and gather their input on the proposed definition and characteristics.

One more exiciting EUROCLIO Annual Conference coming.This time in beautiful Ohrid. Register now!
HISTORY EDUCATION BEYOND BORDERS - HOW CAN WE SHARE OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE?
Registration for the 21st EUROCLIO Annual Conference Professional Development and Training Course is OPEN now. GRANTS are available.

EUROCLIO is happy to launch registrations for its Spring Annual Conference which takes place between 31 March and 6 April in the Macedonian city of Ohrid in the heart of the Balkans. Grants are available for educators from eligible countries. These grants will cover your costs to travel and to stay during the conference. All you need to do is contact your national agency and apply before 17/09/2013.

You are invited to come and experience a professional training course with around 200 history, heritage, citizenship educators from all over Europe and beyond, explore rich & challenging history of Balkans, engage yourself in important discussions around multiperspective approach to History and Heritage in Republic of Macedonia and History Education beyond Borders in Europe and the World and address the shared and layered
heritage around Ohrid locally and in the wider region.

…and this is not all!

Explore the rich cultural and historical heritage of Bitola, Struga and Ohrid, experience the warm welcoming by history educators of Macedonia, enjoy amazing food and let the lovely spring weather embrace you.

Steps to register:

1) CLICK to submit your registration

2) Contact your national agency, use below reference numbers and apply for grants:

• Comenius (For secondary level educators) Ref. Num: NL-2014-356-001
• Grundtvig (For Adult educators) Ref. Num: NL-2014-357-001

Deadline for grants is 17 September 2013. 

Visit the conference page for the programme & more practical information. For questions contact Aysel Gojayeva- aysel@euroclio.eu.

We are dedicated professionals from all areas of language education and intercultural communication worldwide.

We promote excellence in the teaching and learning of languages by

• defining professional standards for teachers and learners

• recognizing quality and best practice across a wide range of educational environments

• disseminating these standards and practice to the widest possible public

By improving professional standards and teacher training in language education and intercultural competence more people achieve the higher level of communication skills that they need in our globalized, multilingual world.

Conference Announcement 2014

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This month EUCIS-LLL took part in a focus group organised by the MENON network in the framework of the EU-USR project. The initiative, focused on Comparative Research on University Social Responsibility in Europe and Development of a Community Reference Framework, was conceived as a response to the policy priority of the European Commission about the need for a common social responsibility strategy for all European universities. In this context, the EU-USR project creates a European model to enhance social responsibility of universities in a long-term perspective. To this end, the project uses a bottom-up approach which starts from some leading EU universities in the field of USR. EU-USR supports the achievement of a European Area of Higher Education by developing of a common European Framework for Universities Social Responsibility. EUCIS-LLL notably provided expertise on the project Manifesto that should be soon released and precise the consortium objectives.

Claudio Dondi, vice-president of the MENON Network (European innovation and research network member of EUCIS-LLL) intervened in a public hearing (see intervention summary) organised by the Committee on Culture and Education in the European Parliament on new technologies and open educational resources (read also the EP draft report). The hearing follows up on the release of the Commission’s Communication on “Opening Up Education” last September, foreseeing many actions to be undertaken in 2014 in the field of digital learning. Claudio Dondi welcomes the Communication’s holistic approach and recommended that the political ambition should be supported by adequate policy instruments. He took up on key elements of EUCIS-LLL position on the issue i.e. the crucial role of teachers, and underlined the importance of networks such as the Platform to mobilise Member States in a bottom up approach through grassroots stakeholders. See also EAEA position in reaction to the Communication.

SOLIDAR has released a briefing paper on “Empowering people through non-formal and informal learning”, gathering many innovative good practices from the network and policy recommendations which value non-formal and informal learning as a tool to empower people, so that they fully participate in society in a democratic, social, economic and cultural way. See also SOLIDAR project on “Building Learning Societies: Promoting Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning” partnering EUCIS-LLL and EUCIS-LLL task force on validation and related documents.