Interests

• Innovation in Education
  
  
• New Educational Technologies
  
  
• Virtual Mobility
  
  
• Quality in e-Learning
  
  
• e-Learning Competences and Skills

Innovation in Education

EuroPACE actively follows and contributes to all trends and developments concerning innovation in Education. Through our research, our publications and our European collaboration projects, we are active in the field of  ‘the internationalisation of education’ and in the field of ‘lifelong learning’.

On the one hand EuroPACE wants to help individual institutions to further develop and implement their internationalisation strategy. Two major European strategic processes should be considered as guidelines for the planning of an internationalisation policy in educational institutions:

• Lisbon Process: A political goal setting to develop Europe as a competitive knowledge-based society, built upon sustainable development.

• Bologna Process: A strategic process to develop European education and training systems to support mobility, flexibility, comparability and internationalisation.

On the other hand, EuroPACE acknowledges the importance of the ‘lifelong learning’ concept. Lifelong learning covers learning from the pre-school age to that of post-retirement, including the entire spectrum of formal, non-formal and informal learning. Lifelong learning implies raising investment in people and knowledge; promoting the acquisition of basic skills, including digital literacy; and broadening opportunities for innovative, more flexible forms of learning. The aim is to provide people of all ages with equal and open access to high-quality learning opportunities, and to a variety of learning experiences, throughout Europe.

Education systems have a key role to play in making this vision a reality. The European Commission stresses this need for Member States to transform formal education and training systems in order to break down barriers between different forms of learning
(see the resolution on lifelong learning from the Education Council of the European Commission at http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lll/lll_en.html ).

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