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EC Projects

Be-TWIN : Testing a Joint ECVET-ECTS Implementation Projects to test and develop the credit system for vocational Education and training (ECVET)

The ECTS has become one of the main pillars of the Bologna process towards a common EHEA. More recently, ECVET is being designed as a response to the specificities of Vocational Education and Training (VET). A central issue of the Be-TWEEN Project is to define the connection between the two credit systems.

Be-TWIN will offer a better relationship between HE and VET and between ECTS and ECVET for the European Education Area. Translation tools between both systems would help reaching common goals of transparency, mobility and recognition.

The submission of the Be-TWIN project was an initiative of Chambre de Commerce de Paris in the framework of LLL Programme 2007-2013 Leonardo da Vinci sub-programme. UNICA coordinates the work Package 2 (methodology) and participates in Work Package 6 (dissemination).

"1st Work Package 2 meeting : Methodology", 15-16 June 2009, Brussels

Agenda (pdf document)
List of participants (pdf document)
Practical information : hotels (pdf document)

Papers and presentations

European Qualifications Framework (EQF), Learning Outcomes and ECTS, by Vera Stastna, UNICA expert (powerpoint presentation)
Clarifying the concept of learning outcomes, by Desislava Atanasova, University of Rousse (powerpoint presentation)
Practical examples and challenges ECTS : The University of Vienna, by David Baldinger, UNICA (powerpoint presentation)
Practical examples and challenges ECTS: University of Rousse, by Desislava Atanasova, University of Rousse (powerpoint presentation)
Practical examples and challenges ECVET : “Négotia”, by Marina Jean, Chambre de Commerce de Paris (powerpoint presentation)
Practical examples and challenges ECVET : SESAMO Project, by Simonetta Bettiol, Ufficio Scolastico Provinciale di Venizia & Veneto Regional Officer of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (powerpoint presentation)

Working papers

Draft glossary (word document)

Background Documents

ECVET Bulletin 2009/01 (pdf document)
Background Paper: ECVET Pilot Projects, 1st Seminar : Setting the basis for cooperation, GHK, Brussels 23-24 April 2009 (word document)
Minutes of the "1st Seminar : Setting the basis for cooperation", by Lilian Cadet, Chambre de Commerce de Paris (and coordinator of the Be-twin project) (word document)
Reader of the "Training Seminar for Bologna Experts : European Qualifications Framework, Learning Outcomes and Labels for ECTS and Diploma Supplement", from the conference that UNICA organized in the framework of the Higher Education Reform II project, hosted by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 30 June-1 July 2008 (pdf document)
"Learning Outcomes : Current developments in Europe: Update on the issues and applications of learning outcomes associated with the bologna process", Stephen Adam, UK Bologna Expert, Bologna Seminar: Learning Outcomes based higher education: the Scottish experience, 21-22 February 2008, at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland (pdf document)
ECTS Users’ Guide, 2009, European Commission (pdf document)
Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a European credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET), 15 May 2009 (pdf document)
Conclusions of the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 12 May 2009 on enhancing partnerships between education and training institutions and social partners, in particular employers, in the context of lifelong learning, 2941th Education, Youth and Culture Council Meeting, Brussels, 12 May 2009 (pdf document)
Questions to be addressed, by David Baldinger and Vera Statsna, UNICA Experts (word document)
A forecast of Europeans' skills until 2020

Eramus Mundus Action 4- European Campus : "Enhancing Overseas Student Mobility"

Project website : http://europeancampus.eu/
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Project summary (pdf document)

Information Project on Higher Education Reform III (Lisbon Strategy and Bologna Process)

Project website : http://www.bolognaexperts.net/
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Information Project on Higher Education Reform II (Lisbon Strategy and Bologna Process)

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Tempus IV - Promotion of European HE Reforms in the Tempus Countries

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PRIUM Tempus - Joint European Project

Project website : http://prium.unica-network.eu/
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Project summary (pdf document)

SUMIT

After Mobility - Keeping in touch : Analysis from both Institutional and Student Perspectives - Antwerp, September 10-13 2008

The above-mentioned session has been approved by the Conference Programme Committee (CPC) and will appear on this year's programme of the 20th Annual EAIE Conference in Antwerp (10-13 September 2008).

"SUMIT" Supporting Mobility through ICT seminar - University of Warsaw, Warsaw, October 11-12, 2007

Proceedings of the seminar have been published ! Download or print the publication :

Seminar information

This seminar aims at supporting the objective of 3.000.000 Erasmus students by 2011 through discussions and exchange of best experiences on virtual aspects related to mobility during three stages: before, during and after (mobility). The objective is to show universities in the targeted countries (new EU members) how ICT can be used to enhance the quality of the student and the university experience of exchange, which, eventually, will help to increase numbers (influx and outflux) of Erasmus students.

The event will be of interest to university staff involved in International Relations, Erasmus Coordination, e-Learning, libraries and IT services as well as to student associations from the whole Europe. The total number of 80 participants is anticipated. It will be financed from the Socrates Complementary Measures Project, Supporting Mobility through Information and Communication Technologies - SUMIT.

Project summary (word document)
Agenda (word document)
Participants' list (word document)
Working groups (pdf document)
Conference speakers (word document)
Programme of excursions (pdf document)
Practical information (pdf document)

Presentations

Information and Communication Technologies usage by Erasmus Student Network, University of Warsaw, by Anna Laudy (pdf document)
Presentation of Paris 3 experience, by Chantal Serman (working group 3) (powerpoint presentation)
Virtual orientation for incoming exchange students, by Raisa Saviaho (powerpoint presentation)
Mobility and IT Support at Vidzeme University College (powerpoint presentation)
Student Mobility in Sofia University: Tendencies and Perspectives, by Tsvetan Bogdanov (powerpoint presentation)
Role of ICT instruments in the management of the decentralised Erasmus activities, by Dorota Rytwinska (powerpoint presentation)
Enhancing Student Mobility in a Digital World, by Jeff Haywood (powerpoint presentation)
Enhancing student mobility in a digital world : sharing experiences in an enlarged Europe, by Mirta Baranovic (pdf presentation)
Enhancing student mobility in a digital world – sharing experience in an enlarged Europe, by Jolanta Urbanikowa (powerpoint presentation)
Enhancing student mobility by a web 2.0 platform, by Christof Devriendt (pdf presentation)
Warsaw University Library - e-resources and information services for academic community, by Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko (pdf presentation)
Nicolaus Copernicus University, by Ewa Derkowska-Rybicka (powerpoint presentation)

Pictures

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BEPIQUA

More information :

Presentation (powerpoint presentation)
Survey results (powerpoint presentation)
Survey results report (word document)
Glossary of benchmarks (word document)
Arthur Mettinger’s presentation (powerpoint presentation)
Fiona Hunter, VP of EAIE, presentation (powerpoint presentation)
Final report (word document)
Presentation for EAIE session (powerpoint presentation)
Executive Summary (french version) (word document)

EUNIRO

In 2000 UNICA launched a new project entitled Enhancing University International Relations Offices - with the acronym EUNIRO - in cooperation with the European Association for International Education, EAIE, to the SOCRATES Accompanying Measures Programme of the European Commission.
The general objective of the project focused on the major human, physical and technical requirements that University International Relations Offices should secure in order to be in a position to fully contribute towards the challenges and goals foreseen up to the year2010.

More information :

Plan of Action
Survey Report (in English)
Summary (in French)

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