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PROMOTE @ UB forum

Final results of PROMOTE project were presented in a University-Business forum in Brussels.  Many new interesting ideas and expanding communicate of PROMOTErs. Competence validation system of PROMOTE project were met with great interest from attendants and project final results were published on official Erasmus + website as good example of a successful European initiative.

Final Project conference

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The 7th REVEAL conference focusing on competence oriented learning and validation of non-formal and informal learning highlighted the interface between business and academia and in innovative blended learning arrangements that are supported by state-of-the-art learning technologies that facilitate the validation on institutional and individual levels.

Parallel to the conference there was a poster exhibition of the sub-projects carried out in PROMOTE and IMPACT for the winner projects and for OWL.

For more detailed information about the conference refer here.

Project final conference

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Don’t miss on Competence Oriented Learning and Validation of Non-formal and Informal Learning conference, which will take place on 22nd and 23rd of September 2016 in Thessaloniki, Greece. We expect experts from science and practice from more than 15 European member states attending the conference. Participants will have an opportunity to see the presentations of informal learning project examples, listen to live discussions between scientists, politicians and business representatives. There will be space for workshops, where new collaboration ideas will be developed. For more information please contact me directly.

For more information see Thessaloniki 2016 and if you wish to attend please register here.

La VITA è bella! – Open for submissions now

La vita e bella komplettThe PROMOTE teams looks forward to learning about your projects and concepts that promote the development of competences in a holistic way and include practical cases on how learning outcomes and competence developments within this specific competence area can be assessed and evidenced also beyond the walls of formal education.

Find all details here.

Young people and PROMOTE concept

5Young people who are looking for jobs were introduced to possibilities of applying concepts of validating competences via open learning environment developed during PROMOTE project and obtaining LEVEL5 certificates, which could enrich their CVs. Presentation was carried out by project partner Materahub during the event “Job Lab” of Comincenter in Matera, Italy.

Importance of transversal competences

Promote dissemination ESTM - IPLeiriaThe importance of transversal competences and proposed validation method, LEVEL5, was explained in Peniche, Portugal, on the 24th of February. The meeting was organized by IPLeiria, partner in PROMOTE knowledge alliance project and attracted 20 motivated persons, among them teachers, pedagogic council members and administrative staff. Some of the participants will help in the application of the level 5 methodology during the implementation phase of the project this way extending IPLeiria’s team. Next meetings will be organized in a smaller team setting to prepare the following steps on the PROMOTE project.

Expanding community of Promoters

PromotersMultipliers event held in Kaunas, Lithuania on 28-29th January, brought together 43 representatives of public authorities, businesses and higher education institutions. Who were trained to implement “new”, competence oriented and “open” ways of learning, teaching and validating competence developments. Event also facilitated experience sharing between professionals from 10 European countries.

Promoters are now ready to test the developed methodology of competence oriented learning!