Monitoring the implementation of the Lisbon recognition Convention: monitoring report, Paris/Strasbourg 2022

This second monitoring report on the implementation of the Lisbon Recognition Convention focuses on articles related to the right to appeal, information provision and transnational education, as well as automatic recognition and digital solutions which are not directly part of the convention. It is based on survey data from 2020 and provides a set of recommendations for national recognition authorities and education policy-makers on how to improve these areas.

Beyond Limits. New Ways to Reinvent Higher Education – Roadmap proposed for the WHEC2022

This document was prepared by UNESCO to be delivered at the 3rd World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022), organized by UNESCO on May 18-20, 2022, which has the purpose of enhancing the contribution of higher education institutions and systems world-wide, under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, its pledge to leave no one behind, and looking at the Futures of Education.

The document presents a technical proposal that resulted from research, consultation and dialogue led by UNESCO and partners, whose ideas have permeated all throughout. The final enriched version of the Higher Education Roadmap will be published and presented in relevant event/s in 2023.

Magalie Soenen, Chiara Finocchietti and Jonna Korhonen: New micro-credential framework shows relevance of Bologna

This article presents the Common Framework for Micro-credentials in the EHEA, published in March 2022 as the result of two years of work by the MICROBOL project (co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union), which aims to provide higher education institutions, governments and other stakeholders with a concise and clear view of how micro-credentials can fit into the European Higher Education Area, according to the consensus reached to date.

Common Framework for Micro-credentials in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)

The MICROBOL project partners and experts published their Common Framework for Micro-credentials in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which represents the consensus on micro-credentials reached to that point. It shows how the Bologna key commitments are applicable to micro-credentials, as it zooms in on Quality Assurance, Recognition and Qualifications Framework and ECTS.