Activities

COMMIT Final Valorization Event

The project final event was initially scheduled in Brussels and was supposed to take place on Monday 04 April 2016 at the Committee of the Regions.  Here you can access the programme of the Brussels event. Due to the consequences of the terrorist attacks that hit Brussels airport on 22 March 2016, this event was cancelled and later replaced by two activities:

• Valorisation event in Louvain la-Neuve (BE) of 26 May 2016, opened to European policy makers and bodies and held in combination with the COMMIT Belgian valorisation event organised by the University of Louvain. Find here the Programme of the event and the presentations: 
  • Welcome and seminar rationale
  • Learning outcomes at the crossroad of institutional logics
  • When governments are strategizing: HE in the French-speaking community of Belgium between international competitiveness and regional performance
  • Development of the social dimension within University Lifelong Learning: from concept to implementation
  • Commiting to the social dimension in universities: the COMMIT project and its tools that can turn your institution into a ULLL institution 
  • Analysis of the data collected during the project
  • Tool 1
  • Visit Kit "How to use the COMMIT tools in your institution"
  • Erasmus+ and COMMIT
  • Round table about ULLL strategizing  with university representatives: KU Leuven, UCL, Universiteit Antwerpen
• Final valorisation event in Dublin (IE), held on 1st June 2016 prior to the 48^th eucen Conference. The event saw the participation of key stakeholders as well as European universities interested in the COMMIT tools and in the opportunity of adopting them in their own institution. Find here the Programme of the event and the presentations:
  • Welcome
  • COMMIT - Commitment to the social dimension in universities
  • Learning activity - the COMMIT kit for self-assessment: an overview
  • Tools and Analysis - the results
    
  • New tool for monitoring attainment
  • The Social Dimension in Higher Education - Policy reminders from the COMMIT project
    

Full Partners Meeting

Brussels 18-19 November 2015

The full consortium of COMMIT met in Brussels 18-19 November 2015. The group discussed the technical report and agreed on the basis for the preparation of the Executive Summary and Policy Recommendations. 

Progress Report

30 April 2015

COMMIT's Progress Report was submitted to the European Commission at the end of April. You can download the public part following this link.

In mid June the European Commission sent its evaluation back. The Progress Report had received 91% mark. The consortium is proud of the result.

Capacity Building Activity

Barcelona 20 May 2014

COMMIT's first activity has the objective to discuss with external experts the reviewed ALLUME tools and the new COMMIT tool for monitoring attainment in HE. The programme of this activity includes:

• Overview of COMMIT, by Françoise DE VIRON
• Keynote Speech "The Challenge of implementing a new mission in HEIs", by Ada PELLERT
• Round table with:

• Gabriel DIMA (EU-USR project "Comparative Research on University social responsibility in Europe")
• Karin DOLLHAUSEN (HEAD project "Opening HE to Adults")
• Stephane LAUWICK (member of the BFUG Working Group on the Social Dimension and LLL)
• Martin UNGER (PS4SD project "Peer learning for social dimension")

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