Project events and meetings
EUE-Net Meeting, 20-21 October 2008, Amsterdam
Agenda 20-21 October 2008, Amsterdam, Nederland
European University - Enterprise Cooperation Network
Life Long Learning Programme
134546-LLP-1-2007-1-RO-ERASMUS-ENW
20-21 October 2008, Amsterdam, Nederland
EUE-Net meeting on the book entitled:
Guidelines for Practical Placement of students in Europe
Final program
MONDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2008, 9:30HRS - 17:30HRS
Meeting room at Eden Rembrandt Square Hotel
9:30-9:50 Opening session: Project coordinator, Doru TALABA -Transilvania University of Brasov
Presentations of the contributions to the European Handbook on Practical Placement of Students
9:50-10:00 Chapter 1. Introduction: background, concepts, Meaning of "practical placement - definition and conceptualization in the different Countries cultures", Romita IUCU, Magdalena IORDACHE PLATIS - University of Bucharest
10:00-10:20 Chapter 1. Introduction: Situation of PPS in the Member States,Meaning of "practical placement - definition and conceptualization in the different Countries cultures", Marie-Lise MICHELI, Alain JUNGMAN - IUT Paris Jussieu, Universite Paris VII Denis Diderot
10:20-10:40 Chapter 2. Models of PPS in Europe:
General principles: mechanisms for motivating of actors (benefits); Identification of existing models, critical analysis (real examples), Ian SUNLEY, Lorna UDEN - Staffordshire University
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Chapter 3. Guidelines for the organization of PPS - Code of practice for the actors
  Principles and code of practice for the actors: Teachers, tutors from enterprises and students; Objectives of the PPS, Marian GHEORGHE - Tempus Association for Continuing Education
  Design of PPS: Classify the level of the PPS related to the trainee`s qualification and the skills; Identifying the expectation and needs outsourcing a stage status. Match the needs and the expectation of the actors - university view, Romita IUCU, Magdalena IORDACHE PLATIS - University of Bucharest
  Design of PPS: Classify the level of the PPS related to the trainee`s qualification and the skills; Identifying the expectation and needs outsourcing a stage status. Match the needs and the expectation of the actors - enterprise view; Mating - identifying and optimal choice of the Enterprise - list of activities, estimation of the necessary available places, enterprise profiles, Alessandra MILLEVOLTE, Massimo MUSTICA - Laboratorio del Idee
  Design of PPS: Special issues related to the placement in μ-Enterprises and SME`s. Universities requirements, Enterprises constraints - solutions, best practice, Giulia LOMBARDI, Milena NARDI - Consulmarc Sviluppo S.R.L., Andre MIODEZKY - My-XML SA
  Design of PPS: Creating a local Network of enterprises for PPS, Gregory MAKRIDES - European Association of Erasmus Coordinators, Xenia CONSTANTIOU - University of Cyprus
  Design of PPS:Contract cooperation U-E; Planning of PPS:WHO, WHAT, HOW, WHEN, Carlos OCHOA LABURU - Basque Country University
  Assessment, QA issues, cooperative procedure - a document to be integrated by both U and E in the QA system, Annemie BOONEN - EuroPACE
13:00-14:00 Buffet lunch
14:00-15:40 Chapter 4. Trans-national PPS
  Specific aspects and challenges of trans-national PPS versus local PPS; Current models for quality control of trans-national PPS, Frank MARCH - LEONARDO Office Thuringia c/o Technical University Ilmenau
  EUE-Net proposed model: Regional centre, Edmund ZIRRA - University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe KOOR-BEST
  A European model: Network of Networks, Doru TALABA - Transilvania University of Brasov
  PPS validation, ECTS, Quality control procedures, Simona LACHE - Transilvania University of Brasov
  "Virtual support models" for transnational cooperation, Annemie BOONEN - EuroPACE
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:40 Chapter 5. Open questions, new challenges in the enlarged Europe, Marian GHEORGHE - Tempus Association for Continuing Education,
16:40-17:30 Discussions, review integration of the texts
20:00 Dinner
TUESDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2008, 9:30HRS - 12:30HRS
Meeting room at Eden Rembrandt Square Hotel
9:30-11:00 Presentation of the new multilateral project Q-PlaNET, Edmund ZIRRA - University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe KOOR-BEST
Project SIG planning for the next period (Doru Talaba & Edmund Zirra):
 
  1. correlation of activities with the new multilateral project Q-PlaNET
  2. planning for a first journal article publication related to PPS (choice of the journal, authors team, timetable)
  3. deadline for the book issuing : revised text, review, final version
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Final discussions, any other issues, conclusions
12:30 Buffet lunch