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the Bologna follow up
1989 Erasmus ECTS pilot project 1995 Socrates
institutional contract 1998 Sorbonne Declaration
4 Ministers harmonization of study structures in
Europe 1999 Bologna Declaration 29
Ministers Diploma Supplement pilot project 2001
Prague conference Salamanca preconference Tuning
Educational Structures in Europe pilot
project 2003 Berlin conference 33 Ministers Graz
preconference Graz Declaration Trends 2003
Progress towards the EHEA http//www.eua.be/jsp/e
n/upload/Trends2003_summary.1064412673141.pdf 2005
Bergen conference 2010 European Higher Education
Area
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• European Commission 
• WHITE PAPER
• ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• TEACHING AND LEARNING
• TOWARDS THE LEARNING SOCIETY
• White Paper on Education and Training
• Teaching and Learning
• Towards the Learning Society COM (95)590,
  November 1995
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/off/white/index_en.htm

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the Bologna follow up Communique of the Berlin
Conference 2003

• Realising the European Higher Education Area
• Importance of all elements of the Bologna Process
• Quality Assurance / Evaluation / Accreditation
• 3 Cycles System / B M D
• Promotion of mobility
• European Credit Transfer and Acumulation System
  facilitating recognition and international
  curriculum development
• Recognition of degrees System of easily
  readable and comparable degrees / Diploma
  Supplement
• Student Oriented System Students are full
  partners in higher education governance
• Attractivness of EHEA
• Life Long Learning flexible learning paths
• EHEA and European Research Area two pillars of
  the knowledge based society

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• Introduction of
• a three cycle
• study system
• Bachelor
• Master
• Doctorate

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the Bologna follow up promotion of mobility

• Transparency
• Information Packages
• Learning objectives / outcomes
• Learning and teaching methods
• Diploma Supplement
• Academic Recognition
• Accumulation and Transfersystem
• ECTS Credits
• Learning Agreements
• Transcript of Records

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the Bologna follow up ECTS key features
EUROPEAN CREDIT TRANSFER and ACCUMULATION SYSTEM
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the Bologna follow up ECTS key features
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation
System is a student-centred system based on the
student workload required to achieve the
objectives of a programme, objectives preferably
specified in terms of learning outcomes and
competences to be acquired.
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the Bologna follow up ECTS key features
ECTS makes study programmes easy to read and
compare for all students, local and foreign. ECTS
facilitates mobility and academic recognition.
ECTS helps universities to organise and revise
their study programmes. ECTS can be used across a
variety of programmes and modes of delivery. ECTS
makes European higher education more attractive
for students from other continents.
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the Bologna follow up The Diploma Supplement
The Diploma Supplement follows the model
developed by the European Commision, Council of
Europe and UNESCO/CEPES. It is designed
to provide a description of the nature,
level, context, content and status of the
studies that were pursued and
succesfully completed by the inividual named on
the original qualification to witch
this supplement is appended.
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• The European Perspective
• Primary -
• Secondary -
• Tertiary - Education and Training
• Employment
• LifeLongLearning

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the Bologna follow up Life Long Learning

• Requirements
• variable entries and exits
• learning accounts
• Objectives
• learner oriented
• value oriented
• knowledge development oriented

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the Bologna follow up Attractivness of EHEA

• National / International Comparability
• Tuning educational structures in Europe (pilot
  project 2001 in business/management, education,
  geology, history and mathematics)
• Four Lines
• Questionnaire to graduates and employers
• Structures of study-programmes
• ECTS
• Learning and Teaching methods - Quality Assurance
• Support of Modularisation
• Support of Quality Assurance
• Support of Cooperation in Research

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• Thank you for your attention
• Neuwirth Holger, Ao.Univ.-Prof., Dipl.-Ing.
  Dr.techn., Architekt
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  me.html
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• Fax [phone]
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