The closure event about the TRAILER project will take place within the International Conference TEEM’13 (Salamanca, November 14-16, 2013).

November 15th, on Friday afternoon, will be devoted to the project. First, it is programmed the presentations submitted to the track “Formal and informal learning experiences in multicultural scopes”, which is devoted to identify, share and valorise best practices and experiences (including technological and methodological issues) that focused on the development of intercultural skills and competencies in education, including both formal and informal approaches.

Finally, there will a panel discussion and the main results of the project will be presented.

TRAILER project has been published this morning in Project Promotion Group on “EACEA ICT Community. Sharing Knowledge and ideas”.

http://eacea-llp-ict.ning.com/group/project-promotion/forum/topics/trailer-project-spot

The First Edition of the International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM – http://teemconference.eu) will be held in the Educational Research Institute (IUCE – htttp://iuce.usal.es) at the University of Salamanca next November 15-16, 2013.

This event is aimed to create a researching community to interchange and dialogue about the multiculturality enhancement from the Knowledge Society interdisciplinary perspective. In this way, TEEM Conference in linked to the Education in Knowledge Society PhD Programme of the University of Salamanca (http://www.usal.es/webusal/node/30026).

This TEEM first edition is organised into a set of thematic tracks, each one with its own topics and call for papers:

• Track 1. Doctoral Consortium
• Track 2. Technological advances and teaching innovation applied to Health Sciences education
• Track 3. Communication and cultural diversity
• Track 4. Science 2.0 supported by Open Access Repositories and Open Linked Data
• Track 5. A promised land for educational decision making? Present and future of learning analytics
• Track 6. A robot in the classroom
• Track 7. Formal and informal learning experiences in multicultural scopes
• Track 8. Application of Mobile and Software As A Service (SAAS) in learning processes
• Track 9. Educational innovation
• Track 10. New publishing and scientific communication ways: Electronic edition and digital educational resources
• Track 11. 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for E-learning (ISELEAR’13)

All the tracks share the idea to go further the traditional academic conference presentations, just in order to look for the discussion and the improvement of the actual researches and future ones including the constructive feedback from the conference attendants.

Conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series with ISBN.

Besides, 12 special issues will be organised to extend (60% at least) the best papers and also to make new articles as result of new collaborations among conference participants. The updated journal list may be consulted at http://teemconference.eu/special-issues.

All presentations from LINQ 2013 are now available through the conference website’s programme overview. TRAILER project was presented on the 4th parallel session with other European and International projects about “Vocational Education and Training, New Skills and Quality”. TRAILER presentation is available in the following link:

http://www.learning-innovations.eu/2013/Trailer-Tagging-Recognition-and-Acknowledgment-of-Informal-Learning-ExpeRience

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TRAILER project will be presented during the European and international conference “Learning Innovations and Quality” (LINQ 2013). It will take place in the Global Headquarters of the United Nations’ organization Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome (Italy), from 16th to 17th of May, 2013.

Antonio M. Seoane Pardo and Francisco J. García Peñalvo will be in charge of presenting the activities and outcomes of the project and discuss them with all attending experts and practitioners from Learning, Education and Training. In addition a short description of TRAILER project will be published in the LINQ proceedings (with ISBN).

More info about the conference in http://www.learning-innovations.eu

The adoption of the Council Recommendation on the validation of non-formal and informal learning of 20 December 2012 acknowledges the important role this process can plan in rethinking education, in improving the supply of skills to the labour market, in promoting mobility and in enhancing competitiveness and economic growth. It also reflects that existing arrangements for validation of non-formal and informal learning are considered to be too limited in coverage and impact. While arrangements for validation have been put in place in some countries and sectors, the knowledge, skills and competences acquired outside schools, universities and VET establishments remain in many cases invisible and not appropriately valued.

The seminar on 9-10 April 2013 will provide the first opportunity for validation stakeholders from all relevant areas, to discuss and take a first concrete step towards putting elements of the Recommendation into action. It will be a working seminar targeted towards practitioners and policy-makers who are directly involved in validating non-formal and informal learning.

More information in the following website http://validation-nfil-seminar.teamwork.fr/en/programme

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The third meeting of the project took place from 3rd to 6th February in Bolton (United Kingdom)

An original video produced by Mark Johson. “Happy New Year from TRAILER project”

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