Overview
Lobbying Costs
600,000€ - 699,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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 forumAddress
Head Office
Balmes, 132-134
Barcelona 08008
SPAINEU Office
Balmes, 132-134
Barcelona 08008
SPAINWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Apart from the 5,5 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. Some eucen members also have a mandate to do specific tasks, for example one member is appointed as second contact person in the expert group E03298.
Person in charge of EU relations
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Person with legal responsibility
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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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, UPCEA, AAACE and EURAS with mutual membership between each of them and eucen
More details are available online http://www.eucen.eu/alliances/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
600,000€ - 699,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Cost 76€ Grant Erasmus+ 596,857€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
600,000€ - 699,999€
Other financial info
The total amount of EU grants in 2021 shown above represent the sum of grant received from 18 projects (2 of them coordinated by our association) - i.e. 1 Cost and 17 Erasmus+.
The EU grants received in 2022 are ongoing. The accounts for 2022 are not closed yet and as soon as these are closed, the information will be updated. Currently (as per 30 August 2022) we are involved in 22 projects (2 of them coordinated by our association) - i.e. 1 Horizon and 21 Erasmus+. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Platform of European Associations of VET Providers#E03298#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3298 #Member #C#Academia/Research, Civil society#Working group on Adult learning - opening up opportunities for all#E03797#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3797 #Member #C#Academia/Research, Civil society, Professionals#Expert group on European Quality assurance in Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET)#E02415#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=2415 #Member #C#Academia/Research
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 – Outputs: set of guidelines, generic course, platform for VPL, 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 - Outputs: definition for HE apprenticeships, prototype training course for mentors, prototype model agreement, advocacy pack to promote HE Apprenticeships programmes, 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: 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.
http://smile.eucen.eu Expected end: November 2023
EUCEN’S EVENTS:
- eucen annual Policy Talks: event to discuss key policy topics with stakeholders. 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 Bergen (NO) 2018 "Times of transition - the role of Lifelong Learning universities". eJournal from the conference Vol2 No1 https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/
- Conference in Aveiro (PT) 2019 "University continuing education - Learning for a better living". eJournal from the conference Vol3 No1 https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/
- eucen's Autumn Seminar 2018 debated the integration of cultural diversity in HE classrooms. eJournal from the conference Vol2 No1 https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/
- 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. eJournal from the conference Vol3 No1 https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/
- eucen Seminar Across the Atlantic How to survive in critical times? eJournal from the seminar Vol4 No1 https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/
- eucen ULLL Open Fora - this activity explored 4 topics (one each week): Learning Cities, Work-based Learning, Digitalisation and Civil engagement. eJournal from the seminar Vol4 No2 https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/ejournal/
- eucen Experts Seminar (an online substitute of our annual f2f conference): https://www.uu.nl/en/education/eucen-2021. eJournal under preparation
POSITION PAPERS https://eucenstudies.eucen.eu/position-papers/:
- October 2021 | eucen and Lifelong Learning recent trends (under publication)
- July 2021 | eucen and Micro-credentials
- June 2018 | eucen promoting the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable DevelopmentOther 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, the position paper on HE-VET collaboration in 2017 and the position paper on micro-credentials on 2021. EUCEN's policy is to invite members to comment and contribute to the position papers that are drafted by the Steering Committee and the Executive Director of the association. This guarantees that different perspectives are taken into account and that EUCEN contributions have a transnational approach.
Through such actions, EUCEN tries to reach its lobbying and representation at the EU level objectives.- Meetings
Meetings
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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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Date 19 Sep 2023 Location Brussels, Rue de Joseph II, 27 Subject Meeting with EUCEN DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Attending - Joost Korte (Director-General)
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Date 09 Jun 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Videoconference on Vocational Education and Training (VET) and the impact of the crisis on VET. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Nicolas Schmit (Commissioner)
- Anouk Faber (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists - European Forum of technical and Vocational Education and Training
- Association Européenne pour la Formation Professionnelle / European Vocational Training Association
- European Association of Institutions in Higher Education
- European Providers of Vocational Education and Training
- Europäischer Verband Beruflicher Bildungsträger
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