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With fine wine and dine the ACA Annual Conference 2014 convened between 15 and 17 June in the wonderful city of Bordeaux, for its 10th edition. Close to 250 participants were actively engaged over the 2.5 conference days in social activities, dynamic sessions and parallel discussions around the overarching theme – Europe in the world. Higher education developments across the globe. Among other compelling topics, speakers and participants alike looked into the attractiveness of the European higher education area, the geopolitics and future of global higher education, and Europe’s cooperation and position towards the Mediterranean, the US, China, Africa, Russia, India and the Gulf states.
ACA’s main partner for this event was one of its two member organisations from France, the Agence Europe-Education-Formation France (2e2f). Additionally, the Université de Bordeaux 1 hosted the event, while the City of Bordeaux held the welcome reception. The ACA Secretariat is very grateful to the co-organisers and to all the people that worked towards making this event a success. More...

Les acteurs français "peuvent mieux faire" pour s'impliquer dans les échanges entre la France et la Tunisie, estime le ministre tunisien de l'ESR et des TIC, Tawfik Jelassi. Un mois et demi après une première visite en France et la signature de contrats de coopération avec l'incubateur Agoranov, il est de retour à Paris pour travailler à la "mise en place d'une coopération stratégique dans l'ESR et l'innovation".

Plus de 1,400 jeunes de la zone Euro-Méditerranée ont bénéficié du programme Euromed Jeunesse IV entre 2011 et 2013.
Le programme financé par l'Union européenne soutient les activités concrètes mises en place par les organisations suivant des appels à propositions dans les trois domaines principaux qui sont : les échanges de jeunes, le service volontaire, la formation et le développement de réseau.
Les 84 projets financés reflètent la diversité des priorités régionales. Pour en savoir plus : www.enpi-info.eu/.

Un projet de soutien au Partenariat pour la Mobilité entre l'UE et le Maroc a été lancé la semaine dernière dans la capitale marocaine Rabat.  Cette cérémonie fut l'occasion de présenter la démarche innovante du projet, qui consiste en un appui technique pour les politiques marocaines en matière de mobilisation des marocains résidant à l'étranger pour le développement par une coopération renforcée entre administrations publiques européennes et marocaines. D'une durée de 3 ans, ce projet bénéficiera d'un don de 5 000 000 d'euros de l'Union européenne.
Pour en savoir plus : http://www.enpi-info.eu/mainmed.php?id=37850&id_type=1&lang_id=469.

The “Future of Higher Education - Bologna Process Researchers’ Conference” (FOHE-BPRC2) will be taking place on 24-26 November 2014. The Conference will be focusing on aspects connected to the status of the theoretic research activities on the Bologna Process, on providing insight regarding actual developments related to the Bologna Process and their effects “in the field”, in particular regarding the efforts made to define and refine the framework under which international norms could be operationalized at the national and institutional level.
Therefore, we invite authors to contribute to the event with academic papers of 5-6000 words, developed under one of the nine sub-themes of the FOHE-BPRC 2 event:

1. Internationalisation
2. Financing and Governance
3. Excellence and diversification of higher education institutions’ missions
4. Student Centred Learning / Teaching and Learning
5. Social dimension/ Equity
6. Education, Research and Innovation
7. Quality Assurance
8. EHEA at the crossroads: Bologna Process and the future higher education
9. Evidence-based policies in higher education: data analytics, impact assessment and reporting

The Editorial Board will select the papers that will be presented at the conference and then further published in a resulting research volume, which will be part of the official documentation of the 2015 EHEA Ministerial Conference in Yerevan. In order to be considered, potential authors have to submit an abstract of their contribution by 18 July 2014 at fohe@uefiscdi.ro. Authors of the selected papers are invited to attend the conference in order to defend their papers. No participation fees will be required from the participants to FOHE-BPRC 2.
Details related to the call for papers, a description of the conference themes and more about the conference can be found in the attached documents, as well as on the website of the event: http://fohe-bprc.forhe.ro/.  
For more information on the Conference and the agenda please follow the link: Information on the Conference.
Call for authors.

How shall Europe maximise the potential of vocational education and training (VET) to address its long-term strategic goals? This question will be the focus of a conference organised by Cedefop and the European Commission in September.
Building European VET – Time to move on will be based on the results of Cedefop’s VET monitoring report on progress toward the aims of the common EU strategy on VET, as set out in the Bruges Communiqué (2010). More...