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VET has a unique position between more theoretical HE and practice. It is typically an operator, who could have the skills both to understand the research information and implement it to the practice. Especially in rural areas the VET's role has also changed from the traditional educator to important regional expert organisation and developer. VET is an important link to the expertise especially for small and micro companies to whom it is often the only expert organization available. More...

As the title suggests, COMMIT intends to increase commitment to the social dimension of higher education and support strategies for increasing attainment. The project builds on the work of a previous project – ALLUME – which developed 3 self evaluation tools for universities to review their strategy for implementation of a comprehensive and coherent LLL university. More...

The LLP has funded a number of projects which developed tools to support other LLP project actors in effectively and efficiently implementing their projects. But although (parts of) most products would be relevant for the whole programme, the dissemination and exploitation range of these projects is often limited to the sub-programme/education sector in question. Many of the support products take a rather conventional form: paper-based guidance publications, conventional face-to-face-trainings and conferences, as well as static websites are prevailing. They often lack an attractive feel, and they do not make sufficient use of the potential of multimedia and Social Media. Moreover, they often “fossilize”, i.e. they are produced at a certain point of time, but are not regularly updated and further developed. More...

VALERU aims to establish mechanisms and human resources for the validation of non-formal/informal learning (NIL) in Russian Higher Education in order to ensure sustainable development of Russian HE. More...

Research and development in public and private universities remained static in the Caucasus Region (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia) in the last years. Only between 0.2% and 1% of GDP in these countries flows into research and development. In Armenia for example the state does not fund universities doing research. More...

The world has been experiencing rapid transformation in Education area and on the actual scenario mobility, cooperation and development of quality relating to methods of assessment are crucial subjects that raise many questions. Effective assessment drives learning efficiency as the growth of e-learning technologies drives e-assessment. This growth reinforce the need to improve learning and support the idea that is important to define a strategy to ensure that our selection of assessment methods respond positively to the objectives and outcomes of our course programme allowing a clear evaluation of competencies, skills and knowledge. More...

The project aims at promoting and validating social, personal and organisational key competences such as entrepreneurship, civic competences and learning to learn with the help of an innovative, self-directed learning approach at the interface of higher education and business. More...

PROMOTE
Promoting and validating key competences in mobility and trainership in Europe

TALOE
Time to Assess Learning Outcomes in eLearning

PACT
Project actors capacity training in Caucasus

VALERU
Validation of non-formal and informal learning in Russian HE

PACE
Project actors community in Europe

COMMIT
Committing to the social dimension in universities

Connect-VET
Vocational education and training connecting HE and rural companies. More...

eucen has coordinated EU-funded projects for over 20 years. Regularly submits project proposals to the European Commission. eucen also accepts to become partner of other EU-funded projects, each occasion with a specific role, from evaluators to workpackage leaders for dissemination or exploitation. The products of eucen's projects are tools, reports, analysis, online observatories, etc. Outputs produced by projects are free to use and openly available. You can find links to these products from our Resources section. More...

Warsaw, June 2014
Charmey, May 2013
Malta, November 2012
Graz, May 2012
Genoa, November 2011
Granada, May 2011
Rovaniemi, June 2010. More...