Nieuwe methodologie staat centraal tijdens internationale onderwijsconferentie (en)
Tuning is a methodology to (re-) design, develop, implement and evaluate study programmes for each cycle of university. It is used world-wide and addresses several lines of action of the Bologna Process, such as easily readable and comparable degrees, adoption of a system of credits and quality enhancement.
The international conference "Tuning in the World: New Degree Profiles for New Societies", which took place in November in Brussels, focused on degree profiling and analysed how new profiles (e.g. teachers and engineers) are developed in Europe and other regions of the world to respond to specific social and economic demands using the tuning approach.
The conference provided a wide range of information on the different tuning initiatives in Latin America, Africa, Russia, the United States of America and Japan and revealed the similarities and the differences in the degree profiles that they are currently developing in different parts of the world.
At the closing of the event Androulla Vassiliou i, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, said: "Tuning started as an attempt to solve a strictly European problem. It has become a methodology that can be adapted to different higher education structures in very different cultural context. The commitment of the universities, the associations and the national authorities involved is the key to the continuing success of this initiative."
The Conference was co-organised by the Tuning Academy, a joint initiative of the University of Deusto (Spain) and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), and the Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Commission and convened around 600 people from all over the world.
The participants were representatives from universities in Africa, Latin America, Russia, Central Asia, Thailand, USA, Canada and Japan, as well as scholars from European universities involved in the initial tuning process, tuning experts, higher education associations and Member State agencies present in Brussels, Embassies, Foreign missions and Commission services.