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Head of Area Enhanced Cooperation in VET and Lifelong Learning Mara Brugia has been appointed to the post of Deputy Director by Cedefop’s Governing Board. Ms Brugia will take up her new duties on 1 September 2014. She will replace outgoing Deputy Director Christian Lettmayr who is retiring at the end of August.
Born in Perugia, Italy, Ms Brugia joined Cedefop in 1994 and rose through the ranks to become Head of Area in 2004. She has been managing teams of experts working in European VET policy analysis, the common European tools and principles for education and training, and adult and work-based learning with a specific focus on apprenticeship-type learning. She served as Acting Deputy Director from November 2012 to October 2013. Ms Brugia holds a university degree in Economics and a Master’s Degree in Economics, Politics and Law of the European Union.
Cedefop Director James Calleja welcomed Ms Brugia’s appointment saying that he is looking forward to a fruitful cooperation with her.
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A new Eurobarometer survey on the 'European Area of Skills and Qualifications' (Special Eurobarometer 417) shows also that around a quarter (23%) of EU citizens feel that their education or training has not provided them with the skills to find a job in line with their qualifications. While over half of the respondents (56%) think their qualifications would be recognised in other Member States, 6% tried to work or study in another Member State but were unable to do so, either because their qualifications were not recognised by their prospective employer or education institution, or because the respondents lacked information about recognition of their qualifications abroad. More...

Are you willing to innovate and enrich your teaching by making telecollaboration a central part of your pedagogic agenda?

 TILA introduces intercultural telecollaboration as a key topic for secondary school language (teacher) education. It promotes professional development by addressing pedagogical, technological and organizational concerns for the successful integration of telecollaboration practices in intercultural language education in secondary schools.

TILA is co-financed under KA2 Languages (Lifelong Learning Programme) and it started in January 2013 until June 2015. More...

Invitation for submission of papers for presentations at the International Conference ICT for Language Learning.
Experts, teachers, trainers and researchers in the field of language learning willing to take part in the 7th edition of the ICT for Language Learning international conference (Florence, Italy, on 13-14 November 2014) are invited to submit abstracts (speech, poster or virtual presentation). Abstracts need to be written in English.

Deadline: 14 July 2014.

The Conference aims to promote transnational sharing of good practices and research findings in the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to Language Learning and Teaching.  The event also offers the opportunity to develop international contacts among experts in language learning. More...

The CETIS conference is all about technology innovation in higher education, and it took place 17-18 June in Bolton, UK. Open Education Europa couldn't be there this year, but we sure enjoyed following along on Twitter! Here are some of our favourite tweets from the conference. More...

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Coursera is offering a new MOOC about copyright law as it concerns educators and librarians. The course is designed to allow those who work in the education sector to work with a variety of content without putting themselves at risk of violating copyright law. Coursera course listing. More...

Comportement hostile dans le cadre du travail

En 2010, d’après l’enquête Sumer, 22 % des salariés déclarent que dans le cadre de leur travail, ils sont confrontés systématiquement à un ou des comportements hostiles.

« Ceux-ci peuvent prendre la forme de marques de mépris (plus souvent évoquées par les femmes), de dénis de reconnaissance du travail (davantage cités par les hommes) ou, plus rarement, d’atteintes dégradantes.

Ils émanent le plus souvent de personnes appartenant au collectif de travail (collègues ou hiérarchie). Les employés de commerce et de services, les fonctionnaires et agents à statut, les jeunes et les salariés étrangers ressortissants de pays hors de l’Union européenne se déclarent plus souvent touchés que la moyenne.

Les comportements hostiles apparaissent plus fréquents quand l’organisation du travail est marquée par des horaires atypiques ou par des dysfonctionnements, en particulier le manque de moyens pour effectuer correctement son travail et le manque d’autonomie. Les salariés concernés par ces comportements se déclarent plus souvent en mauvaise santé, ont davantage d’accidents du travail et sont plus souvent absents de leur travail que l’ensemble des salariés.
Dares - 2014-044 - Subir un comportement hostile dans le cadre du travail : plus de 20 % des salariés s’estiment concernés… »

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