EUCIS-LLL Steering Committee Meets for Two Days

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Due to a long and heavy agenda the EUCIS-LLL Steering Committee planned to meet for two days, on 25-26 January in the EUCIS office in Brussels. The Steering Committee Members discussed the draft programme of Annual Conference on 14 May on Activating Solidarities, and the agenda of the next General Assembly on 15 May both in Leuven, Belgium. This is an important General Assembly, as the growing platform requires a revision of the Statutes, the Internal Rules and the membership fee system. The Steering Committee took ample time to prepare the required documents.

Very significant at this moment is the opportunity to comment on the draft future EU Education programme Erasmus for All. The Steering Committee had therefore a Meeting with Mr Michael Teutsch, Head of Unit, and other representatives of the Lifelong Learning Department within DG EAC. They stressed the good opportunities of this new programme (a much larger budget) but also the challenges (a much larger emphasis on systemic and policy impact than on the needs of individual learners). The present operational grants, obtained by EUCIS and many of its members, like EUROCLIO, are not longer guaranteed in the present planning. All grants would be available in the format via call for proposals.  Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, EUROCLIO Executive Director and EUCIS Vice-President, stressed during the meeting with the administrators, that such decision would have far reaching consequences for the organizations involved. All Organizations work to support the European integration project, and are able due to the operational grants to develop sustainable policies. Project grants do not offer such opportunities, and these International Associations also hardly qualify for national funding systems. The Steering Committee continues to follow the new education pogramme and will meet again in the beginning of March, among others also to develop the EUCIS-LLL workplan for 2012-2013. See for the first reaction of EUROCLIO on Erasmus for All here

Public hearing on social innovation in education and training

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Our partner EUCIS-LLL announces: On 6 march, EUCIS-LLL organises its next public hearing on social innovation in education and training in Brussels (EESC Building - Bâtiment Van Maerlant - Room VM 3 (2nd floor), 2 rue Van Maerlant, between 9:30 and 12:30).

Issues at stake:

Today little is known about social innovation compared to the vast amount of research into innovation in business and science. EUCIS-LLL understands social innovation as changes in ideas, practices and institutions that aim to resolve existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges for the general interest. We talk about “social” innovation because society is at the core of the analysis. In education and training, it covers a wide range of models from childcare to web-based learning, second-chance schools, to the delivery of learning in prisons or in hospitals. Social innovation supports greater inclusion and equity in our education and training systems and in our societies.

This seminar aims to give an insight on social innovation dynamics that are generally bottom-up and on how to create a favourable environment in Europe to stimulate innovation in teaching and learning.

For further information please see the attached document. Applications can be submitted until Friday 2 March to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

EUCIS-LLL will also be organizing a second event: EUCIS-LLL Annual Conference and General Assembly. This big event will take place on the 14th and 15th of May 2012.

Both events will be held in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, please go to the website of EUCIS-LLL at: http://www.eucis-lll.eu (or directly to the EUCIS-LLL calendar)

Attachments:

EUCIS-LLL-Innovation-Seminar.pdf

[EUCIS-LLL Public Hearing on Social Innovation in Education and Training]

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