Project number 539519-LLP-1-2013-1-BE-ERASMUS-ESIN
Background
The COMMIT project is a follow up of EUCEN's project ALLUME (504635-LLP-1-2009-1-BE-ERASMUS-EMHE). The main objective of ALLUME was to explore the ways to increase the participation of universities to LLL and to give tools to universities to turn into Lifelong Learning Universities.
To understand where COMMIT comes from it would be useful to see the final products produced by ALLUME.
- ALLUME Executive Summary
- ALLUME Pathways and Policies - Recommendations
- ALLUME Tools and Results
- Benchmarking Tool: ALLUME Excel spreadsheet for creating a spider diagram
Other materials on Social Dimension:
- Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe, Eurydice Report 2014
- John Holford (2014), "The lost honour of the Social Dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university", International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 33, Iss. 1, University of Nottingham, UK
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The European Social charter http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Presentation/ESCRBooklet/English.pdf 1996,
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Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Higher Education in the World 5, Knowledge, Engagement and Higher Education: Contributing to Social Change, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2014, 368 pages
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2013, The Council conclusions on the social dimension of higher education http://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&f=ST%208574%202013%20INIT
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Literature review of research into widening participation to higher education, Report to HEFCE and OFFA by ARC Network, Joanne Moore, John Sanders and Louise Higham, ARC Network Ltd, 2013
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Unesco Institute for Lifelong Learning, Chapter 5 of the Global Report on Adult Education and Learning (GRALE) – Rethinking Literacy: EXPANDING PARTICIPATION AND PROVISION IN ADULT EDUCATION 2013
- Policy paper "State of the Nation 2014 Report", from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, Cabinet Office, Department for Education and Department for Work and Pensions of the UK Government, first published 20 October 2014 + Geoff Layer's critique of the section on higher education in the main report ( pp193-236)
- 2009, GUNI Report, Higher Education at a time of transformation (Interesting report for setting the social dimension in a global context. The most relevant sections are II.1.4 (especially 4.5 and 4.6); II.1.5 (especially 5.1 and 5.2). The report also contains some interesting worldwide models/case study examples of good practice in II.2 (especially pp 85-93)).
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2010, Council conclusions of 11 May 2010 on the social dimension of education and training (2010/C 135/02)
- 2009, Communiqué of the Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Higher Education, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, "The Bologna Process 2020 - The European Higher Education Area in the new decade"
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2007, London Communiqué http://www.ehea.info/Uploads/Declarations/London_Communique18May2007.pdf
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2005, Bergen Communiqué of the Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Higher Education, "The European Higher Education Area - Achieving the Goals"
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2003, Berlin Communiqué of the Conference of Ministers responsible for Higher Education, http://www.ehea.info/Uploads/about/Berlin_Communique1.pdf " target="_blank">"Realising the European Higher Education Area"
- 2005, Glasgow Declaration, "Strong Universities for a Strong Europe, European University Association"
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UNESCO, Belem Framework for Action 2009
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Eurydice : Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe. Funding and the Social Dimension 2011, Brussels
- EquNet Progress Report, Enhancing Access through a Focus on Equity 2011
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Engaging in Lifelong Learning: Shaping inclusive and responsive Universities strategies, Hanne Smidt and Andrée Sursock, EUA Publications (final report of the SIRUS project, in which EUCEN was a partner) 2011
- Evolving Diversity, An Overview of Equitable Access to HE in Europe EquNet Report, 2010
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The Bologna Process in Higher Education in Europe - Key indicators on the social dimension and mobility – 2009, Eurostat Statistical Book
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Tying it all together. Excellence, mobility, funding and the social dimension in higher education, Bernd Wächter, Queenie (K.H.) Lam and Irina Ferencz (eds.). 2012 Bonn: Lemmens, ISBN 978-3-86856-006-0, (See especially chapter by Bernd Wächter: The social dimension in higher education: some reflections on a ‘woolly’ concept, pp77-88).
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Michael Osborne, Derek Young, Flexibility and Widening Participation, Higher Education Academy Education Subject Centre, ESCalate, University of Bristol, 2006
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ESU Statement – Quality Assurance needs to take account of the social dimension of Higher Education 2011
- ESU (European Students Union) Policy Paper, 2008 Towards 2020 - A Student-Centred Bologna Process 2008
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ESU (European Students Union) Policy Paper, A social dimension to Higher Education (This paper contains a good summary of social dimension issues and offers a good definition of SD). 2006
- Overview of interesting papers and reports, UK-related: http://actiononaccess.org/resources/reports
- Balázs Nemeth, Lifelong Learning, Higher Education and the Development of Learning Communities, University of Pécs, 2014
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Responsabilidad social universitaria (page in Spanish)