| Lifelong Learning |
| European University Quality Management |
| Valencia (ES), June 2009 - The UNI-QM project aims at creating a model and tools for quality management in lifelong-learning organisations and continuing education. The model and tools will be based on the EFQM model but applied in the field of lifelong learning, thus respecting its characteristics and needs. [more...] |
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| Innovation |
| Research Is the Best Learning Medicine |
| Saarbrücken (GER)/Sevenoaks (UK), June 2009 – IMC AG participates in three research projects regarding the identification of innovative web-based learning technologies on the national and international level. IMC’s involvement is both financial and through development work and coordination roles. [more...] |
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| Accessibility |
| ELearning for the Visually Impaired |
| Dueren (GER), May 2009 - The Consortium for ELearning Accessibility (C4EA) is an EC-funded project to improve the accessibility of eLearning services and products for blind and visually impaired people. The CD ROM with all project results can now be ordered from one of the project partners. [more...] |
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| Demographic Change |
| ELearning Platform for Age-Diverse Recruitment |
 Vienna (AT), May 2009 – Due to the youth-oriented hiring policies of enterprises, mature jobseekers are frequently being excluded from the recruitment process and stereotyped as being "too old" to do certain jobs. Mature@eu is an eLearning platform that aims to enable employers or personnel recruiters to introduce age-diverse recruitment policies and practice. [more...] |
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| Centre of Excellence |
| UN Institute for Training and Research Joins EFQUEL |
| Brussels (BE)/Geneva (CH), May 2009 - Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Vice-President of the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning, welcomed the first UN body to join the organization’s Network: "That the United Nations Institute for Training and Research is now a member of the EFQUEL Network is a big step for our Foundation." [more...] |
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| To Inspire People |
| Creating a Tolerant and Understanding Global Society |
 Auckland (NZ), May 2009 – (by Richard Rowland) The One World Foundation was set up with the aim of bringing the cultures of the world closer together, especially for young people. The mission statement says that it seeks to create an infectious desire to learn more about other cultures and lifestyles among the people of the world and to allow them to help each other in this learning process. [more...] |
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| Leadership |
| New Director for the European Training Foundation |
 Turin (IT), May 2009 - Madlen Serban, Director of the National Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Romania, has been appointed as the next Director of the European Training Foundation. Following a public recruitment procedure, the ETF’s Governing Board chose Ms. Serban from a short list of three candidates put forward by the European Commission. [more...] |
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| EU-Funded Research |
| Immersed in Real-time Learning |
| Sestri Levante (IT), May 2009 - Leading-edge research under the 36-month, 12.9m euro project awarded by the European Commission to a consortium of thirteen leading European organisations is close to being able to use grid and cloud computing to provide the computing resources to bring learners together in both the real and virtual worlds. [more...] |
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| How to participate |
| MEDEA Awards: Open Call for Participation in 2009 |
 Roosbeek (BE), April 2009 - The MEDEA Organising Committee has announced the start of a new MEDEA Awards year. MEDEA Awards were created to recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources at all levels of education and to highlight good practice in the use of media and video in the classroom. [more...] |
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| Capacity Building |
| imc Supports eLearning Competence Centre in Ethiopia |
| Saarbruecken (GER), April 2009 – The Engineering Capacity Building Program (ecbp) is part of Germany’s development cooperation with Ethiopia. Its efforts include the reform of higher education and the modernization of engineering curricula. imc, a German learning-solutions supplier, is supporting the establishment of an eLearning competence center in Addis Ababa, providing know-how for the recording of presentations and university lectures. [more...] |
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| In-depth Information |
| ELearning Country Report for Portugal |
| Bonn (GER), March 2009 – An in-depth country report on eLearning in Portugal is available through the European Project eUSER's website. The research report was compiled by Gonçalo de Sousa Santinha of the University of Aveiro in Portugal, who collected qualitative and quantitative information from national sources. [more...] |
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| Continuing Training |
| EU Encouragement of Social Dialogue Pays Dividends |
 Thessaloniki (GR), February 2009 - The recent joint study by Cedefop and Eurofound entitled Contribution of Collective Bargaining to the Development of Continuing Training demonstrates that collective agreements have a largely positive impact on employee training. However, it also shows that training provision in small and medium enterprises and training offered to workers over 45, is still lagging behind. [more...] |
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| User Training |
| U&I Learning Signs Framework Contract with the EC |
| Gent (BE), February 2009 - U&I Learning, an eLearning integrator active in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, has signed a contract with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) for the delivery of eLearning services. This contract was awarded to U&I Learning after an open call for tender procedure. [more...] |
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| Cedefop Papers |
| EU Research Materials on Vocational Education and Training |
| Thessaloniki (GR), January 2009 – European cooperation on vocational education and training and lifelong learning made considerable progress last year, both in terms of implementing common European tools and political decisions. Cedefop provided much of the expertise for the Bordeaux Communiqué and the Council Resolution on Lifelong Guidance. [more...] |
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| European Project |
| Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship |
 Heerlen (NL), November 2008 – It is difficult to ignore the impact of globalisation on universities these days, as students and staff alike embark on a variety of real and virtual activities aimed at increasing their exposure to international trends and opportunities. CHECK.point eLearning talked to Dr. Kees-Jan van Dorp, Research Director at European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), about the project Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship, which is a multilateral European project under the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013. [more...] |
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