eucen Highlights | January 2023
| February 2023eucen Highlights Welcome to eucen‘s monthly bulletin! Last chance to send your abstracts for eucen’s 53rd conference in Utrecht – join us in the Netherlands, 31May-02June 2023! Some new projects have started. Read below some details about these new works. And do not miss the opportunity to be tester of some of the tools that we are developing! If you receive this message, it is because you have registered on our website or because you have requested to receive our newsletters. We offer you a selection of articles here that we think might be of interest to you. We hope you enjoy them!  The first speakers for EUCEN 2023 have been announced!During the conference European Commission Director-General Joost Korte will speak, along with other interesting speakers. You still have a few days to share your expertise with colleagues from around Europe at EUCEN 2023. Send in your contribution before March 1st!  PROMISE Kick-off MeetingThe PROMISE project consortium came together in-person for the first time in Krems (AT) on January 24-25. A collaboration between the University of Turku (FL), the University of Continuing Education Krems (AT), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES), Momentum (IE), the European E-learning Institute (DK) and eucen (BE), the project’s objective is to strengthen the ability of Higher Education Institutions to develop students’ entrepreneurial competences by introducing an innovative new skill set: Professional Noticing.  Partner UP First Meeting and Study VisitThe first face-to-face Transnational Partners Meeting and Study Visit of the Partner UP project took place in Zagreb (HR) from January 31st to February 2nd. The meeting brought together a consortium made up of partners from Greece, Cyprus, Latvia, Croatia, Italy, Romania and Ireland, as well as two European organisations (EAEA and eucen), to work together on the improvement of Upskilling Pathways across Europe.  BEQUEL Online Benchmarking Tool LaunchedAre you a VET provider engaging in e-learning? Are you interested in finding out how your VET institution’s e-learning provision compares to other institutions within your own country and across Europe? Then make sure to check out the BEQUEL online benchmarking tool.  Call for nominations to The International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of FameThe Hall of Fame honours outstanding leaders in the field of adult and continuing education, who are distinguished as a scholar, practitioner or policy maker. If you know of anyone who could deserve this honour, nominate him/her!  Call for user testers for the DWEL Digital Wellbeing ReportGiven the rapid digitalisation of Higher Education, it is important to consider how Higher Education Institutions’ are supporting their staff in maintaining their wellbeing in the digital sphere. This question is addressed in the DWEL project’s Report of the Digital Wellbeing in Higher Education Institutions, for which we are now recruiting user testers! RECENT EUCEN PUBLICATIONS:  The EJULL vol 6 no 2 from the Budapest conference is out!We are pleased to inform you that the newest eucen publication is available now. This time the EJULL includes the papers from the 52nd eucen conference in Budapest (June 2022). You will find the Editorial, six full papers and the interview Three questions to… We thank all the authors for their work. |
