Spotlight on recognition

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The Paris Communiqué names recognition in compliance with the Lisbon Recognition Convention (LRC) as one of the EHEA’s key commitments, but recent reports such as the 2018 Bologna Process Implementation Report attest to widespread challenges in implementing it and indicate that more awareness is needed among higher education institutions’ staff responsible for recognition processes and decisions of the documents and tools developed to establish a common European approach. The ‘Spotlight on recognition’ (SPOT) project aims to support this staff and enhance its capacities in terms of LRC-compliant recognition procedures by providing a single, dedicated space gathering documents, tools and online resources that are relevant to the implementation of a daily LRC-compliant recognition practice; by developing a sustainable, formative and easily applicable self-assessment methodology for institutional recognition practices; and by creating a recognition community-of-practice open to higher education staff and other professionals involved with academic recognition through a set of transnational peer-learning, information dissemination and training activities of various formats. The target group of the project is university leadership, management and staff in charge of recognition in 39 EHEA countries where higher education institutions are responsible for decisions on academic recognition. The project outcomes are also expected to facilitate the work of ENIC-NARICs’ information provision task vis-à-vis institutions. It will in the long term facilitate the large-scale implementation of LRC-compliant recognition and thus trust and cooperation across the EHEA. The SPOT consortium consists of the European University Association (EUA), the Spanish national rectors’ conference Crue Universidades Españolas, the German national rectors’ conference Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) and the Dutch ENIC-NARIC centre Nuffic.