The European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education (EQANIE) has awarded five international Euro-Inf accreditations to the UOC in recognition of the work of its Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies.
The Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunication Studies (EIMT) of UOC have received an important international recognition for the quality of its teaching and research. More...

The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (Slovenia) has coordinated the project EMCOSU - Emerging Modes of Cooperation between Private Enterprises and Universities.
They have recently published their International Report Insights of European Enterprises and Employers Organisations. More...

The proposal called RAVSI - Research and Action: Validation as Social Innovation, intends to develop a common understanding of social innovation in general and VNIL in particular both as a tool and as an outcome. More...

The BarCamp, organised in the framework of the European Project PACE – Project Actors Community in Europe (www.projectactors.eu), is open to Project Managers and Project Actors working in EU funded projects who would like to share experiences and ideas. More...

eucen's chapter has been written by Prof. Françoise de Viron, current President of eucen, and Pat Davies, consultant in higher education and lifelong learning and past eucen’s Executive Secretary and Projects Director. The chapter, entitled "From University Lifelong Learning to Lifelong Learning Universities: developing and implementing effective strategies", proposes a well-founded and already proven approach to enable universities, in collaboration with all relevant internal and external stakeholders, to develop their own specific strategy for becoming Lifelong Learning Universities.

You can access the publication through the following link:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002335/233592e.pdf. More...

You may be interested in knowing that EPALE, the e-Platform on Adult Learning launched by the European Commission, has developped a partner search facility to assist organisations and individuals in setting up partnerships. More...

eucen has set up an agreement with IACEE (the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education) in which eucen members have the opportunity to use their Quality tool online for free during 2015.
You will be able to Define, Assess, Benchmark and Improve your organisation and its practices.
What do you need to do? If you are member of eucen, please, go to http://www.cpd-bqip.org/ and request to join (you will have to fill in a form). You will be granted access during 2015 free of charge. Another benefit from being member of eucen. More...

Join the VNIL Community discussion group in LinkedIn, and be in touch with experts on Validation on Non-formal and Informal Learning from different sectors all around the World!
Validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNIL) represents a fundamental opportunity for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to become Lifelong Learning (LLL) organisations. VNIL can be very useful when people want to invest in themselves with the aim to improve their possibilities in the labour market or simple for widening their knowledge. It would be very helpful if HEIs could offer tailor-made and affordable VNIL services for individual design of portfolios, assessment and LLL activities. 
Join the VNIL Community to share your experience and thoughts with other experts from different sectors and countries around the world. More...

This Resource Kit is designed to help policy-makers and other stakeholders to review existing lifelong guidance provisions within their country or region, and to identify issues requiring attention and gaps that need to be filled, drawing from practices in other European countries.

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eucen is one of the 6 associations giving advice to the EC in VET issues: the European VET Providers Associations - VET4EU2. One of the activities that this group has promoted is the creation of a website, open to the public, collecting the most important and useful documents and links to VET issues. eucen actively contributed by creating, hosting and maintaining the site. Do not miss the opportunity to visit the web and use all these materials!
http://vetproviders-group.eucen.eu/. More...