On Monday, March 31, 2025, at 09:30, SNSPA will organize a hybrid workshop with representatives of accreditation bodies, focusing on new teaching and training formats within the CIVICA alliance. This event is part of a broader initiative aimed at enhancing access to high-quality, accredited learning opportunities in the social sciences, benefiting students’ careers, studies, and personal development. The workshop will specifically address challenges related to the transnational accreditation of CIVICA’s innovative teaching methods and training tools.
SNSPA faculty members interested in attending the CIVICA Workshop can confirm their participation by completing the online registration form available here.
This event follows the First reunion of CIVICA’s Consultative Group on Higher Education and the first Workshop on Micro-Credentials, events organized by the SNSPA on November 12, 2024, which focused on current developments regarding short-term forms of study within CIVICA, as well as on lessons from other European University Alliances.
As a bridge between the past and present events, a presentation will be delivered on the results of a survey of micro-credentials and executive education programs across the CIVICA alliance. In addition to mapping the situation of each individual partner, including some issues related to accreditation, the presentation will highlight the position of each alliance member regarding the organization of common, CIVICA micro-credentials and executive education programs.
A subsequent discussion will focus on types of quality assurance systems, especially those relevant across the CIVICA universities. This will contribute to identifying the main features of accreditation processes in the current European landscape and provide a framework for more applied discussions in the last part of the workshop.
Finally, a roundtable discussion between the representatives of the CIVICA alliance members and the representatives of accreditation bodies will contribute to the main aim of the workshop, the identification of challenges to trans-national accreditation of joint teaching and training formats to be developed by CIVICA.
The present workshop with representatives of accreditation bodies and policymakers will help advance the work of the main groups involved in WP8 – the CIVICA Innovation Hub, the CIVICA Lifelong Learning and Training Department and the consultative group on executive education – and will ultimately contribute to a White Paper on Innovation and Lifelong Learning and Teaching Social Sciences.
