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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
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
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
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
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
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
Fostering Innovation with Web 2.0
Seville (E), November 2008 - Web 2.0 technologies and approaches have a highly stimulating impact on education and training, providing the impetus for a re-appraisal of traditional roles and practices. Dr. Christine Redecker of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), one of seven scientific institutes of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Spain, described the way students and staff are using Web 2.0 to CHECK.point eLearning. » MORE
The European Award for Languages 2008
New York, NY (USA)/Cambridge (UK), October 2008 - The European Commission has honored the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) with the European Award for Languages for their French-language simulation program "The Creation and Everyday Running of a French SME [small-to-medium enterprise]". » MORE
So Far less Effective for Micro-enterprises
Thessaloniki (GR), October 2008 - A Cedefop workshop held in Thessaloniki on 25-26 September 2008 showed that the sectoral training funds set up in fifteen European countries are increasingly important means of financing and delivering targeted training, as well as for providing guidance, advice, and forecasts on training needs. However, these funds have so far been less efficient in providing such services to employees of smaller companies, especially of micro-enterprises (>10 employees). » MORE
Project on Strategic Competencies Successfully Completed
Kaunas (LT), September 2008 - The European Project "Development of Strategic Individual Competencies" was recently successfully completed. It resulted in a cross-nationally and cross-organizationally applicable catalogue of strategic individual competencies, a methodology of strategic individual competencies development, and an interactive self-assessment tool. All are now available online in six different languages. » MORE
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