Venus-Seminars

The VENUS Consortium elaborated a documented strategy for Higher Education Institutions and their partners (for higher management staff) in education on how to successfully organise self-sustainable, high quality and certified virtual mobility schemes into their educational offer on an ongoing basis.

Based on our experiences, gathered while organising the seminar series and summer school (also avialable on this website) we created freely available training materials:

We created a handbook " Virtual Seminars" Creating new opportunities fo Universities in which you can read how to organse virtual and international seminars.

Download the PDF version here:
VENUS HANDBOOK

Next to the handbook we created a booklet with the VENUS Model, a virtual sustainable mobility scheme together with collected guidelines:

Please download the Venus Summary Booklet and reccomandation here.
They are avalaible in three languages:

EN BOOKLET/ EN

FR BOOKLET/FR

DE BOOKLET/DE

To have an idead how the seminars and the summer school looked like, please have a look at our online module "Europe In focus"

Next to the training materials we also organised 5 Training Workshops :

Please find the Powerpoint presentations, used during the Training Workshops here:

Sample Powerpoint Presentation Training Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to provide information "specifically on the organisation and facilitation of virtual seminars for higher education and lifelong learning". The experiences gained through the VENUS seminars
form the basis for this workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to

-see a best practice pegadogical model of inter-cultural seminars by the
means of videoconferencing and live streaming

- learn everything about the technology set-up, organisational issues
(staff, budget, european partnerschip and promotional activities.

- recieve the Venus handbook

When?

The Workshops are organised:

17 and 18 September 2007 BEST SYMPOSIA, Sofia

16 October 2007 Elearning Lisboa
The Program and Registrations are available at the Lisbon Elearning website

28 November Online Educa Berlin
This Training Workshop is organised in the frame of the Sputnic Forum, a preconference event at the Online Educa Conference in Berlin.
The Program and registrations are available at the online educa website

19 December: Training Workshop at each partner site.
The agenda is available here
Watch the recorded presentation.

11 February 2008: Training Workshop at each partner site.
The agenda is available here

Who?
The workshops are intended for teaching, management, technical and support staff who are interested in the models developed.