TENCompetence - Integrated Project TENCompetence - Building the European Network for Lifelong Competence Development
TENCompetence will further develop models and tools for the creation, storage and exchange of knowledge resources, learning activities, programmes and network data for lifelong competence development.
- Strategic objective: Technology-enhanced Learning
- Project type: Integrated project (IP)
- Start date: 1 December 2005
- Duration: 48 months
- EU funding: 8 796 000
- Number of partners: 13
- Project coordinator: Open Universiteit Nederland
- Contact: Mr. Eric Kluijfhout
TENCompetence will develop a technical and organisational infrastructure for lifelong competence development. The infrastructure will use open-source, standards-based, sustainable and innovative technology. It will be freely available and have the potential to boost the ambitions of the knowledge society, by providing individuals, SMEs and other organisations easy access to facilities that enable the lifelong development of competencies and expertise in various applications and fields of knowledge.
The TENCompetence infrastructure will support the creation and management of networks of individuals, teams and organisations in Europe who are actively involved in the various applications and domains of knowledge. These 'learning networks' will support the lifelong competency development of the participants from the basic levels of proficiency up to the highest levels of excellence. The network consists of learners, educational institutes, libraries, publishers, domain specific vendors, employers, associations, and all others who deliver services or products in the specific field.
The learning networks include:
- competency frameworks for the different applications/fields of knowledge;
- formal as well as informal learning facilities, including the sharing of knowledge, learning activities, units of learning and learning programmes;
- the learning of individuals as well as of teams and organisations;
- all levels of learning: primary, secondary and tertiary education, adult and company training and other forms of informal learning;
- social exchange mechanisms to stimulate the exchange, sharing and support between the individuals, teams and organisations within the network.