As the title suggests, COMMIT intends to increase commitment to the social dimension of higher education and support strategies for increasing attainment. The project builds on the work of a previous project – ALLUME – which developed 3 self evaluation tools for universities to review their strategy for implementation of a comprehensive and coherent LLL university. This COMMIT project will review those 3 tools, refining and adapting them and adding new features which take on board a wider and clearer idea of the social dimension of HE; it will also design and develop a new tool for monitoring attainment in HE and integrate these tools in HEIs management systems. These 4 tools will be used by 12 universities in 12 different countries to conduct a self evaluation which, with supporting documents, will form the starting point for a collective learning process including a visit from one of the other partners; each of the 12 partners will visit one and be visited by another partner.

This whole process will be underpinned by a training event with input from experts in other related projects at institutional and European level; associate partners and other multipliers will be invited to the training. Transversal analysis of the visit reports and the completed tools will lead to the publication of focussed reports including a feasibility study on the tool for monitoring attainment.

A final phase of valorisation and exploitation will include: 12 national active learning workshops each hosted by one of the partners, including around 10 other universities and representatives from the relevant ministry; a European event again with an active learning approach: and associate partners will be invited to host a visit from one of the experienced partners. The contractor, eucen will manage the project and lead on dissemination; it will also host the tools and results on its moodle learning platform so that sustainability will be ensured.

Partners:

–eucen (coordinator) – BE
–Université catholique de Louvain – BE
–University of Turku – FI
–University of Brest – FR
–University of Aveiro – PT
–University of Stuttgart – DE
–Dublin City University – IE
–Bogaziçi University – TR
–University of Genoa – IT
–University of Ioannina – GR
–Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” in Iasi – RO
–Rovira i Virgili University – ES
–University of Pecs – HU