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| Cross-cutting Priority |
| Europe Must Integrate Education and Employment Policies |
 Thessaloniki (GR), March 2010 - The need to develop fully integrated skills policies for education and training, employment, and innovation at all levels was a dominant theme in the workshop Skills and competence to overcome the crisis, which Cedefop co-organised with MEP Ole Christensen on 02 March at the European Parliament in Brussels. [more...] |
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| Standardization |
| Successful Year for eLearning in Europe |
 Essen (GER), February 2010 - The year 2009 was a very successful year for European eLearning standardization. Three new standardization projects were started, and as the highlight, the first European de-jure standard was published. "We are very pleased that the first official European Norm (EN) for eLearning was approved in consensus last year!", explains Christian M. Stracke, Vice-Chair of the European eLearning standardization body CEN/TC 353. [more...] |
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| European Tools |
| The Latest on Training Quality and Credit Transfer |
| Thessaloniki (GR)/Brussels (BE), November 2009 - Cedefop and the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture have introduced new European tools: the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQARF) and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET). [more...] |
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| 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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| EU-Funded project |
| Train2Cert project presents ICT certificates |
 Schwarmstedt (GER), November 2008 - At Online Educa, Train2Cert project will present and offer ICT certificates and training to commercial partners for joint exploitation. On Friday, December 5, Dr. Piotr Zwierzykowski from the Poznan University of Technology in Poland will present vocational training solutions for certification in the most current ICT skill areas. In the 2.30 p.m. session of the "Teaching and Training Skills for the 21st Century" conference track, he will showcase blended and technology-based training formats for certificates on currently sought-after ICT skills. [more...] |
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| SeniorLearning |
| European eLearning platform for Senior Citizens (55+) |
 Barcelona (ES), September 2008 - A simple and easy-to-use eLearning platform recently went online that is specifically designed for senior citizens (55+). The project SeniorLearning is supported by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Grundtvig Programme. It offers free access to practical, structured, and easy-to-follow online courses that enable senior citizens to learn how to use the Internet and benefit from its services. [more...] |
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| Organic.Edunet |
| Online Survey Seeks Participants |
 Athens (GR), April 2008 – Organic.Edunet is a European initiative that aims to raise awareness about organic agriculture and agroecology in agricultural universities and schools around Europe. Organic.Edunet wants to facilitate access, usage, and exploitation of digital educational content for teaching relevant topics. In this context, an online survey has been launched. [more...] |
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| MEDA Region |
| Giunti Labs Hosts an International Training Event |
 Sestri Levante (I), April 2008 – More than one hundred teachers and trainers involved in 'eLearning for teachers and trainers in the MEDA region', an important European initiative in eLearning for North African and Middle East countries, have taken part in an international training event hosted by Giunti Labs. [more...] |
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| The COOPER Project |
| Team-based eLearning Turns a New Page |
| Hannover (GER) / Lugano (CH), March 2008 – How do students, who may be located across the globe, collaborate on team-based project work? European researchers have developed the first online platform that integrates elements of eLearning, social networking, and project management to help virtual teams get the most from their practical experience. [more...] |
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| European Support |
| Small Enterprises Accessing the Open Labour Market |
 Chemnitz (GER), March 2008 - The project SOLE is a Leonardo Transfer-of-Innovations-funded project that brings placement support to new EU member states and is targeted towards SMEs and job seekers in foreign countries. The Project’s aim is to help employers who take on workers, trainees, and students from other European countries. From October 2007 until October 2009, the three partners, Interminds LLC, Bulgaria, ROC Midden, the Netherlands, and Community4you GmbH, Germany will carry out the project. [more...] |
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| Practical Guidelines |
| Computer Simulations as Effective Learning Scenarios |
| Twente (NL), September 2007 - Inquiry learning with computer simulations facilitates the education process through experimentation and scientific reasoning. With simulations, students change variables and observe effects in order to form conclusions. Through this process students discover principles, rules, and characteristics of scientific phenomena. So say researchers from the University of Twente, NL, in new guidelines for teachers that provide practical recommendations for improved deployment ICT in secondary schools. [more...] |
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| Statistical Survey |
| ICT in Secondary Education in South-East Europe |
| Moscow (RU), August 207 – The survey "Indicators of ICT Application in Secondary Education of South-East European Countries" aimed at investigating the main factors, tendencies, problems, and solutions for ICT applications in secondary schools of South-Eastern Europe. The survey was conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. [more...] |
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| Open Journal |
| Emerging Technologies in Learning |
| Vienna (A), June 2007 – The second issue of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning - iJet - has just been published. It focuses on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as on the presentation of practical experience gained while developing and testing elements of technology-enhanced learning. [more...] |
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| Rural Area Networks |
| Initiative Sets up Network Access in Rural France |
| Pomeys (FR), May 2007 – One of the main obstacles to ICT deployment in European rural areas is the lack of cheap high-bandwidth Internet access when ADSL is not available. Alternative solutions exist, but they are expensive and reserved for professional uses (e.g. satellite access). Furthermore, the strategies for introducing ADSL in rural areas of the EU differ from country to country, and while some are already widely covered or plan to be, others will never implement ADSL everywhere because of specific geographical conditions. [more...] |
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| eUser Project |
| Best Practice Cases Collected from Ten EU Countries |
| Bonn (Germany), November 2006 - "The eUser project represents the first coherent effort to address the needs of the whole population in relation to online public services of public interest. While some countries like Denmark and the United Kingdom have a leading edge, European leaders have not done enough to tailor services to the users. Users will demand far more in the future, and there is room for improvement", says eUser project manager Werner B. Korte of Empirica GmbH. [more...] |
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