Removing obstacles to recognition of qualifications

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This activity has been implemented within the education reform initiative of South eastern europe (eri See) - a regional platform for cooperation in the field of education and training, according to the goverment agremeent concluded among participating countries. eri See has been appointed as the coordinator of the activities related to education and competences in the regional strategy Southern and eastern europe 2020. one of the key crosscutting issues of the strategy is the workforce mobility. development of national qualifications frameworks is one of the tools to achieve this aim. In line with eri See Work Programme 2015, an eri See seminar was held in Zagreb in november 2015 in order to discuss the initiative of the South east european regional qualifications framework as a tool for automatic recognition of quality-assured qualifications. The seminar also included a policy update on international trends in development of quality assurance and its use in recognition policy and an example of good practice – the nordic recognition network. The representatives of ministries of education, eniC/nAriC offices, government agencies for quality assurance and universities discussed the joint preparation of erasmus+ project proposal based on the recommendation from the Bologna Ministerial Conference ›to explore the potential for system-level automatic recognition on a regional basis with like-minded partner countries‹. A workshop on the concept of the erasmus+ project proposal was held in Zagreb in January 2016. the University of Split, Croatia, coordinated the preparation of the e+ project proposal (Capacity Building) and submitted the proposal in February 2016.

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