NEws And Events — Rus
UniLab Focus Discussion Groups meetings
Thu 07 January 2021
Between October and December 2020, the UniLab partners in Russia, Belarus and Azerbaijan have established and held their first focus group meetings, engaging local and regional stakeholders such as enterprises, chambers of commerce, academic staff from other universities, students, etc. In this first focus group meetings, organised mostly online between October and December 2020, the partners shared with participants the learning and results of the Study Visit organised in September 2020 by the School of Management of the University Pompeu Fabra.
The focus groups are part of the peer learning approach of the UniLab project, by which local/regional actors will be regularly consulted/involved throughout the project by each of the partner countries’ universities to discuss the work done within UniLab as well as specific project outputs. The aim is to ensure that both project work and deliverables are relevant for the specific needs and features of the actors concerned and the local/regional context. The focus group meetings contribute to raise awareness among a wide range of individuals and organisations who can contribute and have a role in improving work-based learning practices, generating useful discussions which will feed into the project work.
International presentation of UniLab during the eucen ULLL Open Fora 2020
UniLab Newsletter: Issue #1
November 2020
The first UniLab newsletter is out!
We have developed an electronic newsletter dedicated to the project and to the topic of work-based learning. We will do periodical issues, summarising what has happened in UniLab and bringing in interesting news from others working on the same area.
In issue #1 we include description of the work done by the consortium specially.
If you are interested in the topic of HE work-based learning and would like to receive this publication, please, contact us at unilab@eucen.eu
Get involved and be informed of our work!
Press Release 1
The first official announcement of UniLab
14 October 2020
The first official announcement made by UniLab has been a formal Press Release with date of October 2020:
Press Release 1 announces that the UniLab website is available and describes what users can expect to find in it.
The project plans are to have at least two other press releases: one when the student’s portal becomes available and another towards the end of the project, when the resources are all available.
You can download the press release here. Feel free to distribute it too. Thanks!
Study Visit 1 - Barcelona
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Management. 22-23 September 2020
The first Study Visit of UniLab will have the format of a virtual activity instead of the face-to-face event that had originally been planned and we all would have liked to do. The new format brings some challenges to its organisation, but the extensive experience of the Barcelona School of Management working with large groups of students and delivering high quality content will be an asset for the success of the activity.
The main objectives of this study visit are to present the model and success factors of the Barcelona School of Management as well as the University Pompeu Fabra at large, and to learn new methodologies in work-based learning modalities of programmes. All the learnt lessons will help participants to reflect on how to refine existing systems in RU, BY and AZ and develop a more modern and effective work-based placements system.
National Workshops
Online events. June 2020
The RU, BY and AZ partners have invited national stakeholders to participate in their national workshops. The stakeholders will include students, university administration, teaching staff, employers, chambers or commerce, associations, etc. The national state of the art and the conclusions from the Peer Learning Seminar will be presented. Participants will be asked to give feedback about the work done so far and will be invited to become part of the national Focus Discussion Groups. More information about these events can be found in the Facebook page of Unilab.
UniLab has its own Facebook page
04 June 2020
The UniLab project has launched its own Facebook page! You can visit and follow this page now.
The project will announce all its activities and developments not only in its website but also in Facebook. So, if you are using this social media normally, follow us and be informed of our developments!
Peer Learning Seminar
Barcelona, 10-12 March 2020
This two full days seminar gave to the consortium the opportunity to share the collected materials and conclusions from the desk research done at national level in RU, BY and AZ. It also was an opportunity to present the identified case studies of successful practices of Work-Based Learning programmes from European countries.
