European University Continuing Education Network

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European University Continuing Education Network   (EUCEN)

    EU Transparency Register

    27779561950-28 First registered on 03 Jul 2009

    Goals / Remit

    EUCEN’s main aims are to contribute to the economic and cultural life of Europe through the promotion and advancement of lifelong learning within higher education institutions in Europe and elsewhere and to foster universities' influence in the development of lifelong learning knowledge and policies throughout Europe.

    To achieve these objectives, the association strives to: enable the exchange of experience and information between members on current lifelong learning regulations and policies and establish contacts with the relevant European bodies; provide contacts for members with lifelong learning policy makers and practitioners in a range of universities throughout Europe; seek to harmonise levels of quality for University Lifelong Learning (ULLL) among members and to maintain standards for effective monitoring; contribute to the development of an effective university credit transfer system that would be acceptable within the network; and seek to influence European polic (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    Education and Training 2020
    Europe 2020 Strategy
    Open up education
    Digital agenda for Europe (Grand coalition for digital jobs)
    Stronger VET for better lives
    EPALE platform
    EAfA
    2030 Agenda for SDGs
    Up-skilling agenda
    University-Business forum

    Address

    Head Office
    Balmes, 132-134
    Barcelona 08008
    SPAIN
    EU Office
    c/o UCL
    Place de l'Université 1, bte L0.01.21
    Louvain-la-Neuve BE-1348
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    50%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    Apart from the 3 members of staff working in the activities described under heading 9, eucen's Steering Committee members are very much involved in the development of these activities, always in close collaboration with the representatives of ULLL national networks.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    - The LLL Platform
    - ESREA (European society for research on the education of adults)
    - Organisations like universities, students associations, adult education, vocational education and training, voluntary sector, trade unions, etc.
    - Other European Higher Education networks or organisations like EUA, ENQA, EURASHE, EDEN, etc
    - National Networks of university lifelong learning (18 different networks)
    - EUCEN has collaborate with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning recently in the publication of one of their monographs. They have been one of the keynote speakers at the Policy Talks mentioned above
    - GUNi, Chain5, Magna Charta Observatory, AAACE and EURAS have recently requested to develop alliances and/or mutual membership with eucen

    More details are available online http://www.eucen.eu/alliances/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    432,797 € (Source: LLP programme (Grundtvig, KA1, KA3, KA4, Erasmus), Tempus, EC (DG EAC))

    Other financial info

    n/a

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Platform of European Associations of VET Providers#E03298 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3298 #Member #C#Expert group on European Quality assurance in Vocational Education and Training #E02415 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2415 #Member #C

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    EUCEN’S RECENTLY FINISHED PROJECTS:

    - COMMIT (Committing to the social dimension in universities) 539519-LLP-1-2013-1-BE-ERASMUS-ESIN - it produced a self-assessment kit, a set of tools and a set of recommendations for policy makers. http://commit.eucen.eu Final evaluation: 90%
    - HE4u2 (Integrating Cultural Diversity in Higher Education) 562237-EPP-1-2015-1-BE-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD - it produced a set of guidelines, a course for HE staff working with minorities and a policy recommendation paper. http://he4u2.eucen.eu Final evaluation: 75%
    - VINCE (Validation for inclusion of new citizens in Europe) 580329-EPP-1-2016-1-BE-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN – it produced a set of guidelines, a generic course, a platform for VPL professionals, students and policy makers, and a set of Policy Recommendations. https://vince.eucen.eu Final evaluation: 65%
    - ApprEnt (Refining HE apprenticeships with enterprises in Europe) 585163-EPP-1-2017-1-BE-EPPKA3-VET-APPREN - it stablished a definition for HE apprenticeships, developed a prototype training course for mentors, a prototype model agreement, an advocacy pack to promote HE Apprenticeships programmes and a set of policy recommendations. https://apprent.eucen.eu Final evaluation: 78%

    EUCEN’S CURRENT PROJECTS:

    - UniLab (From universities to labour market in the 21st century: a step forward in work-based learning) 610245-EPP-1-2019-BE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP. This project will help to incorporate modern competencies and skills in current work-based learning programmes in RU, BY, AZ, and expand international cooperation between universities and industry. http://unilab.eucen.eu Expected end of the project: January 2023
    - SMILE (Social Meaning Impact through LLL Universities in Europe) 621433-EPP-1-2020-1-BE-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN. This Project aims to promote inclusive learning by developing, testing and implementing innovative tools that improve the way HEIs deal with diversity and social inclusion, especially in the areas of ethnicity, women in leadership and low socio-economic status. The Project will develop courses for HE staff, a Diversity Audit Tool and a Policy operational action plan for HEIs. Starting date: December 2020. Expected end of the Project: November 2023.

    EUCEN’S EVENTS:

    - eucen organises an annual Policy Talks session since 2017 to discuss key policy topics in relation to HE with stakeholders, and has addressed VET, Validation, Diversity and SDGs. Emerging from the discussions eucen has written a position paper about HEIs-VET cooperation and a paper about ULLL promoting the 2020 Agenda and the SDGs. https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/policy-talks/
    - Conference in Mainz (DE) 2017 "ULLL and the labour market in Europe - the contribution of continuing education and vocational education to the challenges of changing work and qualifications requirements". eJournal from the conference: https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/page/v1n1_mainz2017/
    - Conference in Bergen (NO) 2018 "Times of transition - the role of Lifelong Learning universities". eJournal from the conference: https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/v2n1_bergenas2018/
    - Conference in Aveiro (PT) 2019 "University continuing education - Learning for a better living". eJournal from the conference https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/aveiro-barcelona2019/
    - eucen's Autumn Seminar 2018 debated the integration of cultural diversity in HE classrooms. The event was held in Barcelona (ES), 15-16 November 2018. http://autumn2018seminar.eucen.eu
    - eucen's Autumn Seminar 2019 focused on VPL as well as to entrepreneurial skills and to the benefits of these tools for refugees and/or migrants. http://autumn2019seminar.eucen.eu
    - due to Covid-19 situation, eucen is offering in 2020 a new activity in autumn: The eucen ULLL Open Fora that will offer one free activity every day of the month. The Open Fora will explore 4 topics (one each week): Learning Cities, Work-based Learning, Digitalisation and Civil engagement. http://ulll-open-fora.eucen.eu

    Other activities

    One of the core activities of EUCEN is to develop policy statements. In September 2001 EUCEN coordinated a response to the Staff Working Paper on lifelong learning which was later developed by the European Commission into a Memorandum on Lifelong Learning. In 2003 the association contributed to the Trends Report on progress in the Bologna Process. In Bergen in 2005, EUCEN organised its conference around the production of recommendations for the Bologna group on LLL. This particular activity has been repeated in 2007 in Ljubljana and recently in 2009 in Leuven with a new set of recommendations which were passed onto the Ministries before their meeting in Leuven in May.

    More recently eucen has contributed to the modernisation of the HE policy agenda in 2016 and the position paper on HE-VET collaboration in 2017.

    Through such actions, EUCEN tries to reach its lobbying and representation at the EU level objectives.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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