1. EDEN introduction Excerpt from EDEN presentation at Digital Skills and Competences Working Group 2 nd meeting, 28 th -29 th April 2016 Deborah Arnold EDEN Vice-President Communication @DebJArnold

2. 2 “The smart network for the professional community and a professional community for smart learning”

3. The most extensive and established professional network in open and distance learning  Founded in 1991  171 institutional members  852 individual members  Over 20 agreements with related organisations  64 EU projects since 1997  ERASMUS+ Civil Society Cooperation Operating Grant since 2015 3

4. Core missions Policy and feasibility studies Professional development – EDEN “Academy” Innovative projects To support our members and partners in their endeavours to modernise education in Europe Annual Conferences Network of Academics and Professionals Disseminating practice, project results and policy To facilitate the exchange of knowledge and practice in all sectors and levels of education Support for early-stage researchers The European Journal of Open, Distance and e- Learning EURODL Bi-annual Research workshops To further research in the field 4

5. 5 Contribution to EU Programmes  Comprehensive strategic projects  Raising stakeholder awareness of EU policies  Boosting stakeholder participation in E&T  Exploiting the wide-scale expertise of NAP members  Networking and knowledge-base building  Promoting excellence and innovation  Supporting a new generation of educators  Recognising and valuing competences  Evaluation and dissemination of results

6.  ODS  ARMAZEG  Carer+  EMPORT  E-SOLVE  VM-PASS  STAY-IN  EduWorks  Revive-VET  POERUP  eLene2learn  VISIR  NEST  MOVE-ON  SEVAQ+  EquNet  Learnovation  eTTCampus  eLene4work  OBN  OpenPROF  D-Transform  t-MAIL  DigiSkills  TALOE  LACE  LeHo 6 EDEN’s EU projects

7. Spotlight on two EDEN initiatives Short training courses embedded in EDEN conferences Fully online and blended courses combining the best of online and face to face (e.g. MOOCs + workshops) Contributing the the sustainability of EU projects EDEN “Academy” EDEN Fellow and Senior Fellow awards Young Scholar Award Best Research Paper Award Best Practice Initiative Open Badges Recognition schemes 7

8. Thank you! 8 Deborah Arnold Deborah.Arnold@u-bourgogne.fr @DebJArnold www.eden-online.org