2013
In 2013 EUCEN finishes another project about Validation of Prior Learning (VPL) called OBSERVAL-Net with the objective to create a network of VPL professionals. This project was a follow-up from EUCEN’s project OBSERVAL. OBSERVAL-Net created an online community of Validation Professionals in LinkedIn, developed its push for networking in 8 European countries, collected over 200 […]
2019
EUCEN has worked often in the professionalising side of ULLL. Developing up-skilling and re-skilling training is a very important part of ULLL. In 2017 EUCEN submitted an application to explore HE-Apprenticeships and obtained funding to undertake the ApprEnt project. This project worked with 7 country teams that included a university, an enterprise and an association each. […]
2023
EUCEN’s next step on diversity and inclusion has been the SMILE project, that has identified three main areas of inequity in HE and has developed tools around them. SMILE has developed the European Diversity Audit Model (that allows universities to self-assess their strategies and approaches in diversity and inclusion). It has also created 4 CPD […]
2019
Following EUCEN’s well timed HE4u2 project and EUCEN’s long working focus on Validation of Prior Learning, our Association decides to present another proposal to help migrants and refugees to settle in Europe and obtains funding for the VINCE project. VINCE addressed the work from a very challenging perspective because in 2016 universities had not yet adapted […]
2018
EUCEN focussed on cultural diversity and inclusion in its HE4u2 project “Integrating cultural diversity in higher education”. The project started in 2015, a very challenging time for migration to Europe, when Syrian citizens were seeking asylum in Europe in big groups. The HE4u2 project gave EUCEN the opportunity to observe how universities in Europe were […]
2004
EUCEN has a long history working the area of Validation of Prior Learning (VPL). An important push was done with the Transfine project, that drew on the experience of experts from different areas to propose a design for a European Framework for the recognition of non-formal and informal learning. The project reviewed the state of […]
2016
How can LLL contribute to the social dimension of universities? With this question in main, EUCEN developed a set of tools to help universities to self-assess their level of commitment to the social dimension, to identify their strategies to increase attainment and to embed their policy and practices of ULLL in a strategy of wider […]
2014
Collaboration and exchange between researchers and practitioners is not always an easy task. EUCEN explored this area and wrote the report “Bridges between Research and Practice in University Lifelong Learning – Policy Report and Recommendations” under the Dialogue project. This project explored the changes of dialogue with four thematic working groups: Learning and guidance, Access and […]
2011
Following previous work by EUCEN, the Association designed a set of tools to help universities to elaborate a vision, mission and action plan to turn their institutions into LLL Universities. This work was done through EUCEN’s ALLUME project. The project developed three tools: for self-analysis of the process, for self-analysis of the content, and for benchmarking […]
2009
EUCEN refines its BeFlex report and pinpoints at 10 recommendations to turn HEIs into University Lifelong Learning institutions: You can read and download the full BeFlex Plus report.