EFE E
EUROPEAN FORMAT FOR EXCHANGE OF
SOCIAL SECURITY EDUCATION
Prof. dr. Paul Schoukens
KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES AND PARTNERS’ INTERACTION
Objectives:
Intellectual Outputs:
1.
IO1.- Survey needs,
expectations, best
practices. Evaluate.
A uniform format
for virtual course
exchange
2.
A comprehensive
curriculum proposal
3.
An extended
network
IO2.- IT format.
IO3.- Format for the
organization of every
course.
IO4.- Feasibility study joint
Master.
IO5.- Curriculum proposal.
IO6.- Events for project
dissemination
Partners:
CECL
KULeuven
[KU]
UL
KULeuven
CECL
FORMAT IN BLOCKS OF 2 ECTS
1. Course summary
2. Content table + videos + transcripts
3. Main text + other reading material
4. Student’s guide for self-study
5. Tutor’s guide
Lesson 1
• Title
• Objectives
• Overview: video 1
• Reading: chapter 1
• Self-assessment quiz
• Exercise
• Discussion
• Assessment
EACH PIECE ONE PARTNER
CECL
UL
[KU]
A SET OF PIECES TO CHOOSE FROM AT EASE
=> TO EMBED IN LOCAL EDUCATION
KU
Leuven
CECL
UL
[KU]
… OR TO MAKE UP A COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM
Law
KU
Leuven
Social
Policy
CECL
Economics
Comparative studies
UL
Research methodology
[KU]
Networks
Project Partners
- OSE European Social Observatory
- CECL, Greece
- [University of Copenhagen, Denmark]
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- KU Leuven, Belgium
Satellite Partners
Masaryck University Brno, Czech Republic
- Mykolas Romeris University of Vilnius,
Lithuania
- Wirt. Universität Wien, Austria
- University of the Peloponnese, Greece
- University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- University of Zagreb, Croatia
- University of Göteborg, Sweden
- University Madrid Autonoma, Spain
- Tilburg University, the Netherlands
……
- E.I.S.S. European Institute of Social Security
UP-COMING EVENT
International Seminar – 8th of February 2016
‘The blended approach in exchanging social security education’
Training program – 8th – 12th of February 2016
‘Transforming social security education: from regular to blended
courses’
SOCIAL SECURITY EDUCATION IN
EUROPE: SURVEY RESULTS
Dr. Maria Mousmouti, CECL
SUMMARY
Purpose : to collect information on the experience of the institutions participating in
the EFESE-project and their expectations from it
Method : online questionnaire
Duration : December 2014 - April 2015
Participants : Three partner Universities, Seven satellite partners, a non-profit
research institute
WHAT DOES SOCIAL SECURITY EDUCATION LOOK
LIKE?
Courses on social security exist in all participating
Universities - mandatory and optional
• undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
(courses in general Master programmes and EMSS)
and doctoral studies
• life long learning activities
• summer school
Variety of topics – common topics: European and
International Social Security Law - Other existing
courses have a national focus
Focus on Law - Economics - Social Science. Other
faculties include: social work, administration, Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering, Health and Medicine, Social
Technologies; Science; even Mathematics
AUDIENCE : A CLOSED GROUP
•Relatively small audience. Average
number of students: 20-50 (only 2
sp report between 50- over 100 s)
• Relatively small number of
academics: 3-11 (partners) to 5over 20 in sp
• relatively small number of
researchers : 1- 5 (in 2 p and 3 sp),
from 5-20 (1p, 1sp), and from 2050 (1sp)
Teaching Methods
•Conventional teaching methods
(classroom teaching) including
group exercises and projects
• Additional methods include case
studies, case law analysis,
workshops
•Distance learning/ e- learning are
used to a small extent (1 p, 2 sp).
• Courses are offered in national
languages – few are available in
English
•Some courses for foreign students
are available
Study material
•Textbooks in national languages,
•Powerpoint presentations
•Class exercises and notes
•Textbooks in English (2 p, 4 sp)
•Additional material: legal
sources, selected articles in
different languages and videos (1
p, 2 sp)
HOW DIGITAL IS SOCIAL
SECURITY EDUCATION?
•Explicit policy for on-line education is not uniform practice (5sp, 0p)
•Learning platforms are widely used
• Streaming video and open platforms not widely available (1p, 2sp)
•Motives for online courses exist including support training (2p, 5 sp)
•Video material is not produced for regular teaching activities - Lecture
recordings are not a common practice (1p, 2 sp)
•Infrastructure to support on line education is available but not everywhere
and is not uniform
•Audio-visual support units exist (1p, 6sp) as well as facilities for video
conferencing, web- conferencing and video recordings, recording sets (2 p, 4 sp)
and computer facilities for HD video editing (2 p, 3 sp)
(GREAT) EXPECTATIONS ?
INNOVATION in social security education!
• increased feedback from research,
• interaction between academia and the professional world,
• development of ‘common’ social security courses with a ‘European’
content,
• exchange of knowledge and practices (comparison) and new topics.
WHAT CAN EFESE CONTRIBUTE?
•Identify joint topics and teaching approaches
•Useful way to collect and make available access
to information on social security systems
•Stimulate a critical approach
•Opportunity to rethink courses and objectives
•Opportunity for information and ideas on
problems in other countries
•Transfer of practices and sharing of knowledge
•Synergies
YES
the interested audience is increasing,
there is a need to educate young people
in core European values, as a result of
the economic and social crisis and the
need to modernize national courses.
All partners and satellite partners
agree that course exchange can be an
aspect of modernization as it can lower
costs, maximize quality, enable the
exchange of topics, modernize
knowledge, enable contacts between
researchers and institutions.
A format for on-line education would
allow courses to be shared without
tutor or student mobility.
A JOINT CURRICULUM?
YES
Option 1: Common development of a
course catalogue of social security
topics which universities can use in
social security education
Option 2: Joint programme by partner
universities
Option 3: A multiple degree
programme between partner
universities and
Option 4: development of joint courses
which can be shared between partner
universities
•Information collected and exchanged
•Transfer of knowledge on best practices
•Overcome the limited presence of social
security in national curricula
•Cross fertilisation of ideas
•Increase the critical mass of students
•Encourage networking and exchange of
experiences
•Qualitative advancement – EU
perspective
a more ‘European’
understanding of social
security,
more uniform opportunities
for students around Europe,
emphasis in (social security)
research findings
emphasis in the modern
society’s needs.
OPENING UP SOCIAL SECURITY EDUCATION?
YES - Opening up social security education to
a broader public is a welcome development.
T0 whom?
students, professionals, researchers, policy
makers at national, European and
international level and social security
administrators.
Judges, Politicians, broader public
Possibility to bridge research, education
and practice
• Social security education in the participating countries offers a solid
basis on which EFESE can build
•An important ‘menu’ of social security courses is available with
overlaps but important complementarity – different disciplines and
approaches are involved - Existing courses and teaching material can
be used as a starting point
•Experiences with distance learning differ significantly, same as
infrastructure and facilities yet digitization is a clear trend
•EFESE can contribute to the innovation, opening up and
‘Europeanisation’ of social security education
Want to learn more?
Visit our webpage http://efese.eu/