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EUCIS-LLL welcomes the European Year of Citizens that gives a stronger focus to topics that are crucial for our organisations such as the recognition and validation of diplomas and qualifications. However, EUCIS-LLL vision on what European citizenship implies goes beyond and includes important topics such as education to (European) citizenship or civil dialogue and participatory democracy that are so crucial to re-connect citizens to the EU project especially one year before the European elections. EUCIS-LLL has just published its key messages on the European Year. They will be further discussed during its next Annual Conference to take place in Vilnius on 14 May 2013. EUCIS-LLL is also a member of the coalition of NGOs “European Year of Citizens 2013 Alliance“.

Open national-level competition is crucial to deriving maximum value from public money invested in research. Best-practice performance in this respect which all Member States should attain involves:
• Allocating funding through open calls for proposals, evaluated by panels of leading independent domestic and non-domestic experts (peer review) - this incites researchers to reach internationally-competitive levels of performance
• Assessing the quality of research-performing organisations and teams and their outputs as a basis for institutional funding decisions - peer review can form a part of such assessment and, in the long-term, lead to organisational change.
While the balance between these two approaches may vary, they should be at the core of research funding decisions in all Member States in order to overcome divergences in performance across the EU.
Member States are invited to:
• Introduce or enhance competitive funding through calls for proposals and institutional assessments as the main modes of allocating public funds to research and innovation, introducing legislative reforms if necessary
• Ensure that all public bodies responsible for allocating research funds apply the core principles of international peer review
The Commission will:
• Support mutual learning and the exchange of good practice between Member States on the removal of national legal and other barriers to ERA for the priorities set out in this Communication
• Support through the Smart Specialisation Platform Member States and regions in using Structural Funds to develop research capacity and smart specialisation strategies, including support to joint research programmes, in line with Cohesion Policy objectives
• Support ERA Chairs aimed at fostering structural change in institutions to raise their research quality to international levels of excellence.

European Day of Languages
Every year, 26 September is the day we celebrate Europe’s rich linguistic heritage – the EU’s 23 official languages, the 60 or so regional/minority languages, and the languages spoken by people who’ve come to Europe from other parts of the world.

NELLIP - Network of European Language Label Initiatives and Projects

Multilingual database for European Language Label

Teachers from all over Europe visit the BETT show to find out what’s new in the world of educational training and technology.
For the second year running, there will be a stand where visitors can find out more about eTwinning, the community for schools in Europe. They can talk to experts and teachers already involved, sign up for eTwinning and find partner schools in other European countries.
You can join in the eTwinning BETT discussion on Twitter by following @eTwinning_CSS or by using the hashtag #etwbett.
More about eTwinning.

EUNIS 2013 is the 19th congress in a series of conferences within the framework of the European University Information Systems Organisation (EUNIS). EUNIS Congresses are international events that attract a large audience from Higher Education Institutions (HEI). They represent an opportunity for sharing of experience amongst international specialists, users, researchers, decision-makers, and teaching staff from all over Europe. Moreover, it is a very good event to present and publish the latest results of research, development, and deployment of Information Technology in HEIs.
The EUNIS 2013 Congress's theme is "ICT role for Next Generation Universities" and its topics include:
    Open Access, Open data, Open Courseware and Digital publishing
    Information Systems for Research Support
    ICT for Teaching and Learning Enhancement
    ICT in Learning Spaces
    Enterprise Architecture
    Identity Management
    Enterprise Information Systems
    IT Leadership and Governance
    Business Intelligence and University Analytics
    ICT for Mobility and Collaboration
    Campus computing: Cloud, High Performance Computing
    Social Media in universities
    University IT security
We cordially invite you to make a submission to the Congress, in one of the aforementioned topics, for any of the following tracks:
Scientific – presentation of research work and results in a paper session. Submit Paper.
Technological – presentation covering technological aspects and good practices of the use of ICT in Higher Education. Submit Extended Abstract.
Poster sessions – presentation of posters covering technological aspects or good practices. Submit Poster.

iLearning Forum Paris 2013 will open its doors on February 12th and 13th 2013 at Espace Champerret of Paris by welcoming e-learning, Training, HR and Talent Management professionals of the whole world.
iLearning Forum 2013 proposes a space of show more widened on the Hall A of Espace Champerret in order to welcome around 50 exhibitors and 4500 to 5000 expected visitors from more than 40 countries.
The show confirms its positionning as the most important European reference n°1 event in France in the field of the technologies at the service of learning. One large opened space of 250sqm will be the place of all the demonstrations and the presentations of the latest international innovation in e-learning (simulations, interactive video, serious games, skills and management applications, the development of contents tools, social networks of learning...).
Access to the show is free. Website: iLearning Forum.

Call for papers: ePIC 2013 - The 11th conference on ePortfolio and Identity
Following the rich discussions triggered by the presence of Mozilla Open Badges at ePIC 2012, the 11th ePortfolio and Identity Conference intends to explore further the concept of 'openness' in relation to the themes traditionally addressed by the conference. In particular, as ePortfolio and Open Badges are containers of personal data, what is their place in what some predict as the next big revolution: Open Me — open personal data?
The conference will take place on 8-10 July, 2013
Deadline for abstracts submission: 11 March
Contemporary media (digital, social and mobile) is transforming the landscape of identity, education, employment, culture, technologies and politics. The centralised, top-down, mass media model on which most of our institutions are based is facing assaults from the emerging decentralised, bottom-up, networked, agile social knowledge media. While old power centres are being challenged, new ones are appearing: they are based on the systematic collection, analysis and exploitation of the mass of data produced in our daily life. And we are busily coding our actions and thoughts for Google and Facebook to monetise them. In this context, how can we create the conditions for the emancipation of individuals towards a truly open society?
Authors are invited to address ePortfolio and identity issues in relation to:
    open ePortfolio and open badges
    open identity and open data
    open learning and open educational resources
    open assessment and open accreditation
    open employment and open business
    open architecture and open infrastructure
Key conference questions, in relation to ePortfolio and identity, may include (but are not limited to):
    How to support individual and community learning?
    How to contribute to the identity construction process?
    How to facilitate the recognition and accreditation learning?
    How to support lifelong learning, orientation and employability?
    How to support the acquisition of 21st century skills?
    How to create an ePortfolio architecture and infrastructure?
Deadline for abstracts submission: 11 March.