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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 peer learning activities through staff mobility.

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 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 (presentation) 

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)

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