ENIC/NARIC networks: role and activities

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• ENIC/NARIC networks networks cooperating on
  recognition of foreign educational qualifications
• ENIC network established by the council of
  Europe and UNESCO /Cepes (UNESCO now)
• Purpose To implement the Lisbon Recognition
  Convention in member countries and, in general,
  to develop policy and practice for the
  recognition of qualifications.

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• Enic centres provide information on - the
  recognition of
• foreign diplomas, degrees and other
  qualifications- education systems in both
  foreign countries and the ENICs own country-
  opportunities for studying abroad as well as
  advice on practical   questions related to
  mobility and equivalence.
• 55 centres a board consisting of a Bureau with
  an elected president and two vice presidents
  Council of Europe and UNESCO function as
  secretariat

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• NARIC network recognition centres in EU and EEA
• countries
• Purpose improving academic recognition of
  diplomas
• and periods of study in the Member States of the
  European
• Union (EU) countries, the European Economic Area
  (EEA)
• countries and Turkey.
• Initiated by the European commission part of
  the LLP programme
• NAB NARIC Advisory Board three elected members
  of NARIC centres giving advice to the Commission
  important task is to give advice on selection
  of LLP projects concerning recognition

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• Core tasks specific recognition decisions
  legally binding decisions or advisory statements
  on recognition
• Information on degree structures in other
  countries
• Information on status of foreign educational
  institutions
• Main stakeholders mobile individuals with
  foreign degrees, HEIs for academic recognition
  and admission purposes, employers for
  professional recognition.

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• Core tasks cont. Improving fair recognition
  policy at a European level promoting
  recognition based on the Lisbon recognition
  Convention and its subsidiary texts
• Participation in BFUG working groups in
  development and design of NQFs and referencing
  NQF to EQF self-certification process of NQF to
  the EHEA framework
• Promoting and designing the Diploma Supplement
• Promoting fair recognition policy at a national
  level - promoting recognition based on the Lisbon
  recognition Convention and its subsidiary texts

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• ENIC/NARIC centres designated nationally very
  differently structured Big vs. smal centres
  linked to policy level (ministerial attachment)
  or arms lenght from policy levels
• Very tight woven cooperation daily exchange of
  information among centres through listserver
• Recognition projects the EAR manual as a
  prominent example
• www.enic-naric.net

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ENIC/NARIC networks role and activities

• HEIs can get info from ENIC/NARIC centres on
  foreign degree structures and valid information
  on status of foreign HEIs for admission and
  credit transfer purposes
• Valid information on recognition of joint degrees
  and national legislation on joint degrees
• Use the EAR manual for recognition purposes,
  including chapter on recognition of joint degrees
  to be found at www.eurorecognition.eu next
  year a new EAR manual targeted for HEIs
• Many other relevant questions on recognition
  degree structures