| Call for Applications |
| EU Study Visits Programme |
| Thessaloniki (GR), February 2010 - Would you like to explore education and training issues with your peers in other European countries? Are you interested in expanding your professional network? Do you wish to learn more about education and training policy and practice across Europe? Then perhaps it’s time to participate in the EU’s Study Visits Programme. [more...] |
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| Easy Access |
| New Web Portal for Vocational Education and Training |
| Thessaloniki (GR), February 2010 - Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, has brought its redesigned and updated Web pages under a new roof. The new Web portal has been conceived primarily with the needs of policy-makers, researchers, and social partners in mind. It also aims to serve practitioners and interested European citizens. [more...] |
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| Dyslexia |
| European Commission Funds Intelligent Reading System |
 Madrid (ES), November 2009 - The AGENT-DYSL project is developing an Intelligent Assistive Reading System that can help school-aged readers who have dyslexia to improve their reading. Children using the reading system receive personalized attention by the system, with customized presentation of reading material based on individual profiles built up through "observation" of each child reading the text on the system’s viewing area and by recognizing their reading errors. [more...] |
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| Funding |
| Lifelong Learning Programme Call for Proposals 2010 |
| Brussels (BE), November 2009 - The European Commission’s new Life Long Learning Programme (LLP) supports learning opportunities from childhood to old age in every life situation. The next deadline for transversal programmes, which include Key Activity 3 ICT, is 31 March 2010. [more...] |
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| Vocational Training |
| Groundwork Laid for the 2011 Cedefop Survey |
| Thessaloniki (GR), July 2009 - The aim of the fourth Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS4) is to provide targeted data for policy-makers on emerging policy needs. Researchers are able to provide in-depth data analyses on the basis of the survey, but there is also considerable scope for better and more sophisticated use of such analyses by policy-makers. [more...] |
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| Content Production |
| WEBACAD Manages EU Project with OutStart's Software |
| Eschborn (GER), July 2009 - WEBACAD, an eLearning content development company, has chosen the OutStart learning content management system (LCMS) to develop, manage, maintain, and deliver eLearning content for an online training initiative known in Europe as the Certified European ELearning Manager (CELM) program. [more...] |
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| Columbus Portal |
| Unique System for lifelong Learning |
 Cologne (GER), July 2009 - The Columbus Portal is an eLearning platform that supports the lifelong learning processes of European citizens by offering professionally produced eLearning courses. In addition, the portal offers - as the first in the world for special interest and hobby content - a possibility to create with the easy-to-use authoring tool that is available to everyone on the portal training courses. [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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