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Theodor Heuss Bridge, Mainz (DE)

eucen’s 25th Anniversary celebrations

finish with the 2016 Autumn Seminar in Barcelona The eucen’s 25th Anniversary celebrations are coming to an end. The association has tried to bring back some memories of people and work done, as an acknowledgement to those who

built eucen at the beginning of its history and for the benefit of the younger generations who do not know much about the origins of our association. In Dublin our current president, Prof. de Viron, welcomed three of

the former presidents of eucen:

Prof. Collande (1991-94), Prof. Assunção (2000-06), and Dr. Waxenegger (2010-15).

During the 2016 Autumn Seminar Prof. Collande is presenting a poster and leading a discussion group. The celebrations finish paying a small tribute to the men

who brought the eucen Secretariat to Barcelona back in 2000. The Autumn Seminar dinner, that is aking place in a very emblematic building of the city, will be the perfect frame to end our celebrations. Thanks to all who have participated! And do not forget to

view and disseminate eucen’s

video from our YouTube channel!

What’s the plan for next year? MAINZ! The Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germany is

hosting eucen’s 49th conference

next year. Please, book the dates in your diary:

Wed 07 - Fri 09 June 2017 The title of next year’s conference is:

University Lifelong Learning and the labour market in Europe – the contribution of Continuing Education and Vocational Education to the challenges of changing work and qualification requirements. This is a hot topic in Europe and of great relevance to our community. Read more details about our next event on page 2 of this newsletter.

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24 November 2016

Do not miss:

eucen’s end of celebrations culminate with the Seminar dinner at “El Frare Blanc”!

eucen’s 49th conference in Mainz (DE) is our next appointment!

The VET Week in December

Take note of the deadlines for the eucen conference in Mainz!

New eucen project starting in December 2016 on VPL

Update news from the HE4u2 project

New alliances in USA and EU!

What else is in this issue? VET Skills Week ............... 2 Deadlines for Mainz ....... 2 New project VINCE ......... 2 News from HE4u2 .......... 3 New Alliances ................. 3 Make your work visible through eucen’s web ..... 4 Connect to eucen via social media .................... 4

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The HE-VET pathways are becoming more relevant in Europe

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion has organised the first European Vocational Skills Week. This innovative activity will have its main events taking place in Brussels between Mon 05 - Fri 09 December 2016.

eucen, as one of the key VET provider associations in Europe, will be

participating actively in the event, contributing with presentations and active discussions. In parallel, DG EMPL has encouraged others to organise events connected to this week. Currently there are 519 different face-to-face and online activities organised. You can visit the web of the European Vocational Skills Week, learn more about it, plan which activities you want to join and, maybe if you are quick, organise your own activity!

Take note of the deadlines!

Mainz (DE) is getting everything ready to host eucen’s annual conference. But

first things first! The Call for Contributions is being prepared and will be launched on Friday 16 December 2016. The Call will be announced formally

on eucen website and also on the website of the conference.

Take note of the following deadlines for next year’s event:

Call for Contributions (CfC) 16th December 2016

Close of the CfC 10th March 2017

Feedback sent to authors 31st March 2017

End of Early Bird Registration 7th April 2017. Authors of all accepted abstracts must be registered by this date in order to guarantee the inclusion of their work in the conference

Closing of registration period 26th May 2017 As the set of deadlines is quite tight from the closing of the CfC to the deadline for authors to register, we invite you please to take note of these dates in your diary and to check updates on the

announcement of the Call on eucen’s website.

Church of Christ, Mainz (DE)

A new eucen project has been funded!

From December 2016 eucen will start its work on VINCE - Validation for Inclusion of New Citizens of Europe. The project has been funded under the KA3 call EACEA/05/2016, Initiatives for policy innovation - Social inclusion

through education, training and youth. It will be coordinated by eucen and

aims to adapt validation procedures that target refugees and newcomers, by training the validation professionals that work with them.

In this project eucen will be working with members and also with other NGOs

currently working with refugees and migrants. The project will last for three years and at the end of it we expect to have a full set of guidelines for refugees and newcomers, a training course for professionals of validation and

a set of policy recommendations for policy makers. Keep an eye on eucen’s

website for more information about this project!

The Call for Contributions to the

49th eucen Annual Conference will be

formally announced 16th December 2016

Do not miss the opportunity to

present your work to your

colleagues!

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HE4u2 - The first big step of the project was taken! After collecting a number of best practices and useful literature resources in different languages and from different countries, a transversal analysis was carried out and is now available to download on the project website. The conclusions drawn will form the starting point of the following work phases.

In the meantime, the ET 2020 Working Group on “Social and civic competences” that met in Brussels 17-18 November 2016 invited HE4u2, represented by

eucen’s President, Françoise de Viron, to attend the

meeting and explain the innovative aspects of our work. A lot of interest from the EC that makes the consortium proud and even more engaged!

New alliance across the Atlantic!

eucen seals a mutual agreement with AAACE The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education

AAACE and eucen have just signed an agreement of collaboration

this month. AAACE’s objective is to provide leadership for the field of adult and continuing education by expanding opportunities for adult growth and development; unifying adult educators; fostering the development and dissemination of theory, research, information, and best practices; promoting identity and standards for the profession; and advocating relevant public policy and social change initiatives.

New mutual membership with Chain5 Community for Level 5

eucen has also signed a mutual membership agreement with Chain5

this month. This association is the ‘community of practice for level 5’ for those who are involved in the developments concerning level 5 of the European Qualifications Framework. Associations for VET, HE, HVET as well as employers’ organisations, students’ organisations, HEIs, business academies, experts, researchers, etc. are members of this association.

eucen started working with Chain5 in the TANDEM project.

HE4u2 has been presented at the ET2020 Working Group meeting on Social and Civic Competences in Brussels this

month!

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Links mentioned in this issue:

eucen’s video https://youtu.be/dTpFhonZoQM

eucen’s conference in Mainz http://www.eucen2017.uni-mainz.de/

EC Skills Week http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=1261

HE4u2 website http://he4u2.eucen.eu

eucen’s link to conferences http://www.eucen.eu/post/cat/Conferences

AAACE http://www.aaace.org

Chain5 http://www.tandemflexiblepathways.eu

Do you know that you can announce your activities and results on eucen’s web? eucen offers you the possibility to make your work more visible! How? Add your news in the “News feed” section of eucen’s website. A selection of the most interesting news will be included in the monthly eucen Highlights that reach hundreds of individuals every month. If you are interested, please, go to our website www.eucen.eu and register. Once your account is confirmed, you can start uploading news!

Social media: stay connected to eucen! How can you not know what’s going on in eucen?! It is so easy to be up to date! Link your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts to the eucen’s accounts and be informed all the time about eucen activities but also eucen’s stakeholders’ activities: New calls from the EC, Opportunities to join projects, Calls for expert roles, Conferences and call for abstracts, etc. Do not miss the opportunity to be informed! Link to our social media through the addressed shown on the left of this page.

Season Greetings! The Steering Committee and the eucen Secretariat in Barcelona want to take this opportunity to wish you a very pleasant season break and very much success for the coming New Year 2017!

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1 EQUIPE project website http://equipe.up.pt 2 QLT http://equipe.up.pt/TOOLS/web-equipe-qlt/conj/u3065/pag38627.html 2 EQUIPE Plus project website http://www.cfp.upv.es/webs/equipeplus/index/index.jsp

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SPECIAL EDITION Featuring eucen’s history

eucen contribution to quality issues for

continuing education and adult learning

At the end of the 90s eucen,

through its members, was working on Quality of Adult Education and Continue Education issues. More specifically, in 1999 a group of colleagues from Finland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, led by University of Besançon (FR), started the EQUAL project that would produce the publication “Designing and managing a quality project in university adult and continuing education” by its end. This project output formed the bases of a guide to find specific elements corresponding to the needs and the level of quality reached by any one project. The EQUAL work, that finished in 2001, encouraged one of its partners –the University of Porto– to prepare a new proposal on quality issues in collaboration with

eucen: the EQUIPE project1,

submitted in 2000 under the Grundtvig programme. Although the University of Porto was the

contractor of this project, the coordination was undertaken by

eucen from its Secretariat under the direction of Pat Davies

(Executive Secretary of eucen at the time). The aims of EQUIPE were: to improve the individualised learning pathway as experienced by adults in universities in Europe, enhancing the quality of the educational practices in relation to: (a) access and entry issues, (b) learning experience at university, and (c) impact and progression. By the end of the project, EQUIPE had developed a Quality Learning Tool (QLT) 2, intended for professionals in UCE/ULLL planning to start a quality project, that allowed the user to follow the phases of a quality project, and that presented thematic issues, recommendations as well as planning and evaluating questions, and finally offered the experience of previous projects and initiatives. After the work done in EQUIPE and seeing the results obtained, in

2003 eucen decided to submit a follow up proposal: EQUIPE Plus3

– this time eucen was both the

contractor and coordinator. This project enhanced and updated the EQUIPE tools and resources adding new ones, such an exploration of quality indicators, national quality reports, a survey of universities’ involvement in Grundtvig as well as putting in place a network of meetings, visits and exchanges to turn quality in ULLL into a reality across Europe.

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Milestones:

eucen members start a project about Quality of Adult Education in 1999 - EQUAL

The EQUAL project produces a publication to help find specific elements of quality in processes in 2001

In 2001 eucen coordinates the University of Porto’s project EQUIPE

By 2003 EQUIPE has developed the Quality Learning Tool

In 2004 eucen starts its own project on quality: EQUIPE Plus, a follow up of EQUIPE that enhanced the existing tools and resources, and added new tools such the exploration of quality indicators or the result of a survey of universities involvement in the Grundtvig programme, for example

Cut from a EUCENews 1999.

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What was eucen publishing in 1999?

At the end of the 90s some of

eucen’s members were actively working on research issues. On your right you can see two cuts from a EUCENews in 1999. The one above portrays work done by Kari Seppäla from University of Turku (FI) –our current Vice President of

eucen. The one below shows news about some work undertaken by Pat Davies, who in 1999 was the named representative of

City University (UK) in eucen

as well as member of the Steering Committee of the association. Interestingly, in 2000 she was contracted by

eucen and became Executive Secretary and Projects Director

of eucen, where she served in these roles for 6 years.

Above you can see the full Steering Committee group as it was formed in 1999: from left to right – Alfredo Soeiro (PT), Filip Santy (BE), Pat Davies (UK), Geneviève Auroi-Jaggi (CH), Edward Thomas (UK), Victor de Kosinsky (BE), Michel Feutrie (FR), Julian Auleytner (PL) and Marjatta Häti-Korkella (FI).

Quite interesting also in 1999: The French National Network for continuing education (i.e. Conférence des directeurs de service de formation continue universitaire) contributed with a report and recommendations to the reform of laws related to continuing education that took place in France. Michel Feutrie from Univesitité de Lille 1 (who in 2006 would become President of eucen) was author of this report on behalf of the network.