From the network

• NECE CAMPUS 2021 – A creative, networking and digital space for citizenship education – call for projects

  For the second time in a row, NECE (Networking European Citizenship Education), the European platform of citizenship educators, will launch the NECE CAMPUS 2021 to provide a platform for discussion, interaction and networking for stakeholders of citizenship education in Europe and beyond.
  Set against a backdrop of continued disruption induced by the pandemic and the stark inequalities that have been subsequently exposed, and to a great extent exacerbated by the onset of the Covid crisis – the NECE campus […]

• New DARE App: Competendo Digital Toolbox

  DARE is since 2020 the home address for the Competendo project. Since 2021 Competendo is also part of the DIGIT-AL project, Digital Transformation in Adult Learning for Active Citizenship, supported by the European Union in the framework of the program Erasmus+ (KA2 Adult Learning).
  Competendo is committed to contribute to better learning of civic competences and empowerment in a time of transformation. The toolbox offers and shares experience, methods and inspiration for (digital) competency based learning, especially non-formal learning. Published under […]

• OBESSU REACTION TO THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON GENRAL SECONDARY EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING

  UNESCO reports that 1.5 billion students have been affected by school closures due to the Covid-19 outbreak, in 165 countries. This is more than 87 percent of all registered students. The Coronavirus crisis has become an education crisis.
  In Europe, as OBESSU observe, most governments have temporarily closed their schools as a measure to contain the spread of the Covid-19. Education has shifted online but the situation is far from being ideal. While tertiary education institutions were already […]

• eucen Seminar Across the Atlantic 2021 – Shaping the Future of ULLL

  The pandemic has changed ULLL and some of its effects will last. Most notably, the pandemic accelerated the digitalisation of continuing education and had a profound impact on the way ULLL professionals work.
  Considering that, what will the future of ULLL look like? Are all professionals going to share their working hours between home and the office? Will most of the courses be delivered online or will learners want to go back to the classroom? This seminar will explore how professionals in […]

• ETUCE Conference presents new research on privatisation trends in EU education systems

  On 31 March 2021 ETUCE held the online conference “Education in Europe from Resistance to Recovery: Public Investment, Privatisation, Reforms and the role of Industrial Relations”. This was the final event showcasing a yearlong research project coordinated by ETUCE under the title “Social dialogue and industrial relations in education: the challenges of multi-level governance and of privatisation in Europe”.
  The research brings to surface evidence from four countries, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Sweden, and at EU level. It shows the extent to […]

• EDEN – CO-DESIGNING THE NEXT NORMAL OF EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

  The Covid 19 shutdown has challenged students, as well as higher education institutions across Europe, to quickly adapt to a new learning and teaching situation at home, one that is characterised by digitisation and distance learning. In this process, new teaching and learning methods have been introduced and tried out. While the teachers’ situation was immediately addressed by support measures, the difficulties faced by students were not initially considered.
  In this situation, EDEN wanted to give students a […]