After a year of research work, the EQUNET consortium has published its first of three research reports, entitled Evolving diversity. The report gives a broad overview of the degree of equity across-the-board throughout the EU-27 as well as the EEA.
The report is available as a free download, or in print by order. In addition interactive graphs are being added to this website over the current months.
Click here for more information on the report, or here to go straight to the report.
The Equnet / DEP joint symposion, hosted by the Centre for Education Policy Studies at the University of Ljubljana started brought together a panel of experts in equity from throughout the European Union and the Western Balkans.
During the first day, the programme examined the relevance of prevalent concepts of equity for today’s higher education system, as well as the roles of equity-related higher education policies on diversity and society more generally. The second day is continuing with this theme, and also examining specific instruments proposed to increase equity.
In his opening words of the event, Pavel Zgaga, head of CEPS, compared the Symposion to its origins as a key Hellenic social institution. It was a forum for men to debate, plot, boast, or simply to party with others.
Update: Photos and Presentations from the event are now available on the website.
Earlier today, Anthony F. Camilleri presented the first results of the EQUNET project at the EUCEN conference being held in Lille, France. The conference theme is “From Rhetoric to Reality, The European Universties‘ Charter on LLL”. With this context, EQUNET presented its initial result, which especially make note that:
In light with EQUNET’s commitment to dedicated an entire report (in year 3 of the project) to lifelong learning issues, the workshop was also an opportunity to brainstorm with lifelong learning professionals about what research questions should be addressed around this topic. The results of this discussion, will feed into the research plan for the third report, and be presented back to the conference in the future.
The presentation and pictures from the conference iwll be online shortly.
The first outcomes of the EQUNet report “Evolving Diversity” were presented at the Sixth EDEN Research Workshop in Budapest, where 125 experts from 26 countries discussed the latest research results. The focus of the event was “User Generated Conten Assessment in Learning: Enhancing Transparency and Quality of Peer Production”. The engaging keynote speeches are available for download on the Conference web-site , while the EQUNet poster can be found in the EQUNet Repository. Photos from the event are below.
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EQUNET was invited to the main conference of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, to give an overview of how poverty and inclusion/exclusion issues are reflected in Higher Education policies in Europe.
Fabio Nascimbeni and Anthony F. Camilleri gave a presentation highlighting the work of the EQUNET project in general, as well as more specifically:
You can learn more about the event, the ‘Circus Against Exclusion’ here, while you can view the presentation given by the consortium here.
The first EQUNET conference is currently taking place in Tallinn Estonia, within the context of the EURASHE 20th anniversary conference. During the conference, we are presenting the first results, recommendations and conclusions from the soon to be published first EQUNET report to the c. 150 delegates from Institutions of Higher Education in Europe. Also as part of the event, we have hosted workshops on:
Materials:
* presentations from the conference are now online. Click Here to Access.
The EQUNET Repository is a unique collection of open accessibly documents dealing with Equity in Higher Education, and containing reports, presentations, academic papers and all other related materials.
EQUNet is supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission.
