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Meetings & Seminars

The project runs for 36 months. More information about TPG-LRC CoRE is available on the EHEA website. The project supports the organisation of five TPG B meetings and three open seminars on alternative pathways and micro-credentials, digitalisation and automatic recognition. It also implements staff mobility through a peer support approach.

In the framework of the project, three online Peer Learning Activities (PLAs) on digital solutions for the recognition agenda were also organised.

1st TPG B meeting (2024 – 2027)
Rome (Italy), 20 February 2025
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The first meeting of the Thematic Peer Group B on Key Commitment 2: National legislation and procedures compliant with the Lisbon Recognition Convention aimed at defining the work plan for the next years starting from the state of art of compliance with the Lisbon Recognition Convention in the EHEA – as described in the latest edition of the Bologna Process Implementation Report – and the results of the first monitoring questionnaire.

Presentations and documents of the meeting:

  • Implementation of Key Commitment 2 from the perspective of the Thematic Peer Group B. (presentation)
  • Key commitment on national legislation and procedures compliant with the Lisbon Recognition Convention. (presentation)
  • Outcomes of the first monitoring TPG B members and presentation of the Action Plan. (presentation)


Seventh Meeting of the TPG B on LRC
Rome (Italy), 23 April 2024
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The TPG B meeting showcased experiences, practices, and initiatives for implementing the Specific Thematic indications from local to global perspectives. It also explored connections among the five regional conventions on recognition, informing discussions at European and inter-regional levels. Additionally, the meeting offered the opportunity to review monitoring results to assess TPG B's impact on supporting Key Commitment 2 nationally. This session was dedicated to participants for offering feedback and discussing priorities for advancing the Lisbon Recognition Convention at the national level, through smaller groups discussions.

Presentations and documents of this meeting:

1.    Establishing the legal framework to allow the implementation of the LRC

  • Framework law on recognition (presentation)
  • Bologna Process Implementation Report (presentation)
  • Experiences from other regions: the case of the Zambia Qualification Authority as National implementation structure (presentation)
2.    Recognition of alternative pathways
3.    Achieving automatic recognition
  • Automatic recognition at national level and the experience of informal networks (presentation)
  • Achieving Automatic recognition in the EHEA: the I-AR project (presentation)
4.    Establishing the distribution of work and responsibilities among the competent institutions that have the right knowledge and capacity to carry out recognition procedures
  • Supporting credential evaluators in higher education institutions: the experience of Italian Professional Association of Credential Evaluators, APICE (presentation)
  • European Quality Assurance and Recognition System in Higher Education (presentation)
  • Actors of higher education cooperating in Eastern Africa (presentation)
5.    Qualifications held by refugees
  • The French experience of recognition of refugees’ undocumented qualifications (presentation)
  • A policy perspective on the European Qualifications Passport for Refugees - EQPR (presentation)
  • Peer counseling approach to improve capacities in recognition of refugees’ undocumented qualifications: the EQUAL project (presentation)
  • A policy perspective on the UNESCO Qualifications Passport for refugees and vulnerable migrants -UQP (presentation)


Sixth Meeting of the TPG B on LRC
Online, 1 February 2024
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The meeting offered the opportunity to share information on key topics related to the recognition agenda, as well as practices and experiences developed at the national and international level to foster the implementation of the Bologna tools. Furthermore, the latest activities implemented within the Erasmus+ umbrella project “TPG-LRC Constructing Recognition in the EHEA” (TPG-LRC CoRE) were presented.

Presentations and documents of this meeting:
  • TPG B report: state of play and next steps (presentation)
  • Towards a Joint European degree (presentation)
  • Towards the implementation of the Global Recognition Convention (presentation)
  • Updates from the TPG A on Qualification Framework (presentation)
  • TPG A – QUATRA working group on short cycle, main results (presentation)
  • Reflecting on ESG implementation: findings from the project Quality Assurance Fit for the Future (presentation)
  • Disseminating information at national level: Bologna Hub project (presentation)
  • European RPL Network (presentation)
  • 2nd edition of the European Area of Recognition (EAR) manual (presentation)
  • Latest developments within the TPG-LRC CoRE project: Peer Learning Activities and publications (presentation)
  • Overview of the work of the WG: digitalisation of recognition tools (presentation)


Fifth Meeting of the TPG B on LRC
Tirana (Albania), 27 April 2023
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The meeting focused on the specific thematic indications for TPG B "establishing the legal framework to allow the implementation of the LRC". The open discussion on the Monitoring the implementation of the Lisbon recognition Convention: monitoring report, Paris/Strasbourg 2022 has been the starting point, followed by a matchmaking activity on the 6 specific thematic indication for TPG B with the aim of setting up the staff mobility. The second part of the meeting has been devoted to a peer-support activity on the specific thematic indication for TPG B "distribution of work and responsibilities among the competent authorities that carry out recognition procedures".

Presentations and documents of this meeting
     • Monitoring the implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention (presentation)
     • Matchmaking activity on the staff mobility (presentation)
     • Input from the TPG A (presentation)
     • Input from the TPG C (presentation)


Fourth Meeting of the TPG B on LRC
Online, 24 January 2023
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The meeting was focused on the specific thematic indication for TPG B “establishing the distribution of work and responsibilities among the competent institutions that have the right knowledge and capacity to carry out recognition procedures”. Furthermore, the meeting offered an opportunity to share information on the state of art of the activities linked to the TPG B on LRC and to present documents developed in the framework of the Erasmus+ umbrella project “TPG-LRC Constructing Recognition in the EHEA” (TPG-LRC CoRE).

Presentations and documents of this meeting:
     • Objectives of the meeting (presentation)
     • The work done by TPG B: main results and room for improvements (presentation)
     • Micro-credentials: practical guidance to develop, assess, quality assure and issue them (presentation)
     • Digital technology and recognition: tools and standards at our disposal (presentation)
     • Quality as a trust enhancing tool enabling recognition (presentation)


Third Meeting of the TPG B on LRC
Sèvres (Francia), 9-10 June 2022
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The meeting has been preceded by a public seminar on alternative pathways that was conceived to supplement the activity of the group. The information shared during the seminar served as theoretical input to stimulate the peer-support activity planned on Third Meeting of the TPG B on LRC of the 10th of June 2022. The TPG B meeting combined a mix of panel discussions to convey relevant/up-to-date information and peer-support activity to give the possibility to share national experiences, practices and perspectives to fulfil the LRC implementation.

Presentations and documents of this meeting:
  • Project objectives and main actions to support TPG B institutional activity (presentation)
  • Input from the TPG A (presentation)
  • Practices and digital tools to support recognition of Ukrainian qualifications (presentation)
  • Tools and instruments from a country perspective (presentation)
  • Cooperation with higher education institutions (presentation)

Public seminar on digital solutions for the recognition agenda
Rome (Italy), 24 April 2024
Agenda of the seminar

The public seminar offered a holistic approach to the use of digitalization as a support to quality and efficiency of the recognition process, in line with the Bologna needs and principles. 
Thanks to the presence of leading experts in the field, the seminar presented experiences developed at national and international level to provide an overview of the different digital models and tools supporting the recognition agenda. 

Presentations and documents of this seminar:

  • Digital solutions in higher education, the national case study – Italy (presentation)
  • A policy perspective – panel discussion on the European and global level (presentation)
  • A policy perspective – panel discussion on the European and global level (presentation)
Secure and trusted data provision and platforms for credentials sharing
  • DEQAR latest developments: micro-credentials and alternative providers (presentation)
  • EUROPASS latest developments and the relevance of credentials for higher education institutions (presentation)
Artificial Intelligence in higher education
  • Text-mining technology to improve skills matching between academia and labour market (presentation)
Digital solutions supporting quality in recognition
  • Monitoring quality assurance in recognition: the perspective of the AR25 project (presentation) 
  • Integrating digital solutions in the recognition process at the institutional level: an Italian case study (presentation)

Public seminar on automatic recognition
Tirana (Albania), 28 April 2023
Agenda

The public seminar on automatic recognition explored the topic in a multi-faceted way, starting with an overview on the issue from the 2022 Monitoring Report on the implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention, the 2018 Council Recommendation on promoting automatic mutual recognition and the 2023 Report on its implementation. The second part of the seminar took a practical approach, presenting different models of automatic recognition and the tools available to support its implementation.

Presentations and documents of this seminar:

Setting the context on automatic recognition
      • 2022 Monitoring Report on the implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention (presentation)
      • 2018 Council Recommendation on promoting automatic mutual recognition and 2023 Report on its implementation

Different approaches to automatic recognition:
      • Legally and not legally binding agreements
              o Agreement on automatic recognition of qualifications between Italy and Austria (presentation)
              o The AdReN project (presentation)

      • National databases with comparability statements available for download
             o Ireland (presentation)
             o Sweden (presentation)
             o Poland (presentation)

Transversal solution to support automatic recognition:
      • Information provision as one of the pre-conditions for automatic recognition
             o CIMEA (presentation)
             o EUA (presentation)

      • Digital solutions for the verification of authenticity and Quality Assurance
             o EQAR (presentation)
             o Ukraine (presentation)


Public seminar on alternative pathways
Sèvres (France), 9 June 2022
Agenda of the seminar

The public seminar offered an overview of national and international initiatives on recognition of alternative pathways with particular reference to Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), recognition of non-traditional learning and micro-credentials, in line with the “specific thematic indications” prioritised by the TPG B members in the survey distributed in June 2021.

Presentations and documents of this seminar:
  • 20 years of validation des acquis de l'expérience (VAE) (presentation)
  • Recognition of Prior Learning in Practice project (RPLip) (presentation)
  • e-VALUATE and (STACQ) projects (presentation)
  • Micro-credentials linked to the Bologna key commitments (MICROBOL) (presentation)
  • Micro-credentials in the EU strategy for higher education institutions (presentation)

After the 2018 Paris Ministerial Conference, the 2020 Rome Ministerial Communiqué reconfirmed the “determination to see the Key Commitments fully implemented. We ask the BFUG to continue to employ the peer support method to achieve this". Consequently, the peer support is the approach underpinning the activity of the TPG B. 

Peer Support Activity 1: Digitalisation for the recognition agenda (10 June 2022)

National experiences from:


Peer Support Activity 2: Recognition of alternative pathways (10 June 2022)

National experiences from:

  • France
  • Ireland

Peer Support Activity 3: Distribution of work and responsibilities among the competent authorities that carry out recognition procedures (27 April 2023)

National experiences from:

First Peer Learning Activities on digital solutions for the recognition agenda – input phase

The first Peer Learning Activities (PLA) addressed the input phase. This session aimed to provide participants with practical experiences and a theoretical framework, guiding them towards the digital solutions that align with the principles of supporting the recognition process at the national level in accordance with the Lisbon Recognition Convention (LRC). 

Online, 19 September 2023
Agenda

Presentations:

  • Paper to pixels – framing digitalisation in recognition (presentation)
  • The Input Phase and the Quest for Trust (presentation)

National experiences:
  • Digital educational credentials in Ukraine: Diia – Ukraine (presentation)
  • The use of artificial intelligence for the recognition process - Italy (presentation)



Second Peer Learning Activities on digital solutions for the recognition agenda –throughput phase

The second Peer Learning Activities (PLA) addressed the throughput phase. With a keen eye on aligning with the principles of the Lisbon Recognition Convention (LRC), this session aimed to equip participants with practical experiences and theoretical insights to discern the most effective digital solutions to support the recognition process at national level in line with the Lisbon Recognition Convention (LRC).

Online, 19 October 2023
Agenda

Presentations:
  • Establishing an interoperable system and database by the NAWA's Department for Academic Recognition – Poland (presentation)
  • Using DEQAR as trusted source of information on alternative providers and micro credentials – DEQAR (presentation)



Third Peer Learning Activities on digital solutions for the recognition agenda –output phase 

The Third Peer Learning Activities (PLA) addressed the output phase. Focusing on national experiences and how digitalisation can enhance learner centricity, security and interoperability of the output of recognition processes.

Online, 7 December 2023
Agenda

Presentations:
  • The Norwegian solution for digital recognition statements: Issuing and sharing recognition – Norway (presentation)
  • Recognition statements as structured data & verifiable credentials – brief introduction to the new DigiLink project – the Netherlands (presentation)

Final conference of the TPG-LRC and IN-GLOBAL projects
Rome (Italy), February 19, 2025
Meeting Agenda and Preparatory note

The event aimed at sharing the results of the TPG-LRC CoRE and IN-GLOBAL projects, to support the implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention within EHEA and to promote dialogue between the Bologna Process and the other macro-regions of the world.
By sharing the projects’ results, the conference also served to build on the work done during the previous mandate, providing a foundation for the activities of the next mandate until 2027. Moreover, the final conference also aimed at facilitating reflections on the future of higher education, both from the regional and the global perspective, highlighting main common opportunities and priorities to work on.

Presentations and documents of the conference:

1.        From Rome to Tirana Communiqués and beyond. State of art and future perspectives. (presentation)
2.        How projects support the implementation of the Bologna Process. (presentation)
3.        The experience of the TPG-LRC CoRE and IN-GLOBAL projects: results and way forward. (presentation)
4.        Intergovernmental Cooperation areas in Higher Education: lesson learnt, space for synergies and future perspectives.

5.       Cooperation through projects – PART I: Experiences from the INGLOBAL project.
6.        Implementing fair recognition as a key commitment in international cooperation: dialogue among regional recognition conventions.
  • Addis Convention Committee and Network of Implementation Structures Area (presentation)
7.       Cooperation through projects – PART II: Experiences from the TPG-LRC CoRE project.

8.        Thematic workshops “For a future-proof higher education system from the EHEA and global perspectives”.

-       ROUND 1

  • Quality Assurance
    - The experience of QA-fit project (presentation)
    - TPG-LRC CoRE publication “Ensuring and enhancing the quality of recognition processes. Key considerations and recommendations” (presentation)
    - Quality Assurance in the East African Common Higher Education Area (presentation)
  • Micro-credentials
    - TPG-LRC CoRE publication “Micro-credentials for higher education institutions. Approaches developed in the EHEA using peer support” (presentation)
    - Experience from the Thematic Peer Group A on Qualifications Framework (presentation)
    - Micro-credentials in South-East Asia region. The experience of MICROCASA project “White Paper: Action Plan for Microcredentials adoption in HE of SEA” (presentation)
-       ROUND II
  • Digitalisation
    - Digitalisation and AI in education: the Council of Europe’s perspective (presentation)
    - TPG-LRC CoRE publication on digitalization (presentation)
    - The South African national experience (presentation)
  • Evolving tools and practices
    - State of art of European degree at policy level (presentation)
    - TPG-LRC CoRE publication on European Degree (presentation)


Final conference proceedings

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