SGroup News Bulletin 141
1 December, 2015
6TH UNICA-SANTANDER GROUP-COMPOSTELA JOINT WORKSHOP IN BRUSSELS - CHANGE OF DATES
6th SGroup-UNICA-Compostela Group Joint Workshop:Rethinking competence development for students' employability: practical solutions for Europe will take place on 14th April 2016 in the Brussels not as originally scheduled in February.
The Workshop is open to Vice-Rectors/Vice-Presidents for Student Affairs, Deans, Heads of Career Offices, university professionals working in Career Support Services and Centres for Skills Development, Placement Coordinators, student associations and other stakeholders interested in the issue of youth employability.
The Workshop will address the following topics:
- The impact of university enrollment policies on students' future career prospects: How to help students make informed decisions?
- Tackling challenges of competence development at universities: How to stay up to date with the needs of the labour market?
- Building strategic partnerships between universities, alumni networks, and businesses.
More information about the event will be available shortly.
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AMICS– AcadeMIc Collaboration for Internationalisation of Studies
Upon the initiative of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, we would like to interest you with a project ofinternationalising master’s degree courses offered by the SGroup members with the aim to:
- provide maximum visibility to SGroup members’ study offers;
- enhanceacademicmobility;
- enrichstudy curricula.
The ultimate goal of the AMICS project is to design a strategy to facilitate the establishment of jointprogrammes and the reinforcement of research and innovation. The AMICS project also provides for anexchange of practices in joint programmes and double degrees to facilitate procedures and to removeexisting barriers in further internationalisation of study curricula within the SGroup Network.
After the presentation at the General Assembly 2015 by Mar Gutierrez-Colon Plana, Vice-rector for Internationalisation at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili,on AMICS– AcadeMIc Collaboration for Internationalisation of Studies projectwe would like to invite the SGroup members to participate in the first stage and submit your master’s degree courses offered in English in the form given below by 20th January 2016.
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LAUNCH OF BERKELEY EXCHANGE FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Berkeley Exchange Programme for the academic year 2016-17 in which up to 8 participants can take part with a fee waiver.
The agreement with the University of California, Berkeley stipulates exemption from tuition fees for applicants from SGroup university members. The exchange is open to graduate students (fifth year or above in some countries) and for all the areas except: The UC Berkeley School of Law, The Haas School of Business, The Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, The School of Social Welfare. The duration of studies is one semester, either Fall (August-December) or Spring semester (January-May).
The number of exchanges to be awarded in the academic year 2016-2017 is eight. Please access the guidelines of the programme and an application form that will be used for the internal selection by the SGroup Network here.
The UC Berkeley has modified the application procedure. From now on no hard copies will be required. Only pre-selected candidates for the Berkeley Exchange Programme will be contacted by the SGroup Secretariat with a request to fill in an online application forms the UC Berkeley. The final decision about the acceptance of participants will be at the discretion of the host institution.
For more detailed information on UC Berkeley's exchange programme, click here
Please access all the information and documents in the intranet section of our website:
Deadline for submission of applications is 1st March 2016.
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NEW SGROUP WORK GROUP ON EGRACONS
The Egracons (European Grade Conversion System) project implemented within the framework of the Lifelong Learning PRogramme (2012-2015) has been completed. It aimed to facilitate exchange mobility by working out a conversion system based on ECTS grade conversion tables as recommended in the EU's 2015 ECTS Users’ guide.
The Egracons project partners will continue their collaboration to implement the sustainability strategy set out in the attached document. They will jointly collaborate to ensure maximum visibility of the project, a helpdesk for HEIs on how to join the tool, and the awareness raising campaign on the improved understanding of different grading cultures across Europe.
A direct outcome of the project was to develop a grade conversion tool for a fair and objective assessment of mobility students' achievements. The tool is now available to all HEIs in Europe. To learn more about the project you can view To reach the Egracons Work Group you can write .
The project built up a wide-spread awareness and common understanding of the different grading systems in Europe and to enable an accurate interpretation of grades (or marks) given abroad, leading to a fair and manageable conversion of these grades to a local grade in the home institution. The results of the project are designed therefore to benefit students, academic staff, the administration and even future employers.
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CALL OF INTEREST TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FEASIBILITY STUDY ‘MEASURING AND COMPARING ACHIEVEMENTS OF LEARNING OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE’ (CALOHEE)
We are pleased to invite the SGroup universities to participate in the project Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe (CALOHEE) within the Erasmus+ project that the SGroup is a partner in.
The objective of the project, under the lead of the University of Groningen, aims at developing the infrastructure that will eventually make it possible to test bachelor and master students’ performance Europe-wide across a range of fields in a way that satisfies the needs of the various stakeholders in the European higher education community. Initially the project will cover five subject areas, representing five significant academic domains: Engineering (Civil Engineering), Health Care (Nursing), Humanities (History), Natural Sciences (Physics) and Social Sciences (Education). After this initial stage, the outcomes can be used to examine many other degree programmes as well.
The SGroup members have a unique opportunity to play an active role in this process by participating in the study and meetings organised within the framework of this project with their costs reimbursed.
One of the important goals of the study that is just being launched is to determine if students are in fact prepared for their role in society (personal development, citizenship and employability) after graduation, while also meeting the academic standards associated with their area of specialization.
For more information please download theCalland thePress Release.
The deadline for submitting your expression of interest is by 15th of January 2016.
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ERASMUS+ - CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2016
The European Commission has launched a call for proposals for Erasmus+ Programme. More information about specific actions and relevant deadlines you can read here:
Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals
Calls for proposals / Deadline for application / Status / Call referenceKey Action 1 - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees 2016 / 18/02/2016 - 12:00(CET/CEST) / Open / EAC/A04/2015
Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Calls for proposals / Deadline for application / Status / Call referenceKnowledge Alliances-Sector Skills Alliances 2016 / 26/02/2016 - 12:00(CET/CEST) / Open / EAC/A04/2015
Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education EAC/A04/2015 / 10/02/2016 - 12:00(CET/CEST) / Open / EAC/A04/2015
Key Action 3: Support for policy reform
Calls for proposals / Deadline for application / Status / Call referenceSupport to the implementation of EHEA reforms EACEA 49/2015 / 17/02/2016 - 12:00 (CET/CEST) / Open / EACEA/49/2015
Support for Policy Reform - support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships / 15/01/2016 - 12:00 (CET/CEST) / Open / EACEA 41/2015
Jean Monnet
Calls for proposals / Deadline forapplication / Status / Call referenceJean MonnetActivities 2016 / 25/02/2016-12:00(CET/CEST) / Open / EAC/A04/2015
Sport
Calls for proposals / Deadline for application / Status / Call referenceSport: Collaborative partnerships in the sport field and Not-for-profit European sport events related to the 2016 European Week of Sport / 21/01/2015 - 12:00(CET/CEST) / Open / EAC/A04/2015
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