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The PROFFORMANCE international webinar series has successfully engaged over a thousand higher education stakeholders in the past two years. Eight online webinars were organized to share effective teaching practices and facilitate professional networking among educators in higher education from the partner countries of the PROFFORMANCE project: Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, and Serbia. Participants gained insights into the PROFFORMANCE Assessment Tool.

The PROFFORMANCE Ambassador Roadshow has played a key role in promoting the PROFFORMANCE Assessment Toolkit, a free, three-dimensional framework designed to support higher education (HE) teachers and institutions in assessing and developing teaching competencies to enhance the quality of education. Alongside the toolkit, the International Teaching Excellence Database and the Course Portal offer valuable resources to foster continuous improvement in higher education with alignment of EHEA policy goals.

PROFFORMANCE Institutional Ambassadors met for the first time.

The PROFFORMANCE Professional Network launched with a kick-off meeting at the Tempus Public Foundation, on 8 November 2024, marking a crucial step toward building a collaborative community focused on educational quality enhancement in higher education. 

The eighth thematic webinar focused on digitalization in higher education, covering a wide range of topics spanning history, business, and artificial intelligence. 

The PROFFORMANCE+ project was honored to participate in the "5th Conference and Exhibition on Educational Informatics in Higher Education," where Dr. Linda Huszár and Szilvia Besze delivered an insightful presentation titled "Student-Centered Educator" and led an interactive workshop.

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Over 120 higher education teachers from the EHEA countries participated in the seventh PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinar on Embedding Sustainability in Teaching and Learning held on the 8 October 2024.

PROFFORMANCE experts and reviewers have organized an engaging peer-review activity. Each working group has developed course module prototypes in the four EHEA priority areas: digitalization, internationalization, inclusion, and sustainability. Testers and reviewers provided their feedback to identify the characteristics of the most professional, up-to-date, and user-friendly courses designed for higher education teachers.

Over 120 higher education teachers from the EHEA countries participated in the sixth PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinar on Internationalisation in Higher Education: Empowering Innovative teaching and learning practices across borders held on the 16 May 2024. Three good practices on the topic of internationalisation in higher education have been presented. The practices ranged from service-learning in EFL teacher education, designing business start-up companies through an online international multidisciplinary collaboration project, to developing remote work competencies through global virtual teamwork.

PROFFORMANCE experts gathered for a peer-learning activity 22 March, to experiment with artificial intelligence, how it could be used effectively for course development keeping in mind ethical and legal requirements.

150 higher education academics from the European Higher Education Area countries participated in the fifth PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinar on Inclusion and Diversity - Addressing Diverse Students' Needs, held on 28 February 2024. Four innovative practices were presented. All of them were truly inspiring and innovative in supporting teaching and learning.

At the invitation of the Georgian partners of the PROFFORMANCE project, NCEQE (National Centre for Educational Quality Enhancement) and MoES (Ministry of Education and Science), and organised by the Hungarian coordination, the Ministry of Culture and Innovation and the Tempus Public Foundation, a consortium meeting and expert workshop took place, which resulted in important progress and will soon be open to the public.

More than 100 higher education academics from the European Higher Education Area countries participated in the fourth PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinar on innovative teaching and learning, held on 11 December 2023. Four innovative practices were presented. The practices ranged from specialised maritime education and a specific online music practice methodology to teaching sustainable tourism and using the blog as a tool to open up the university to the public. All of them were truly inspiring and innovative in supporting teaching and learning.

More than 100 higher education academics from the European Higher Education Area countries participated in the third PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinar on impact and mission with and for the society, held on 7 November 2023. Four outstanding practices were presented. The practices ranged from a new teaching methodology for pre-service biology teachers, a methodology for teaching ecological economics to an application that helps branch (and answer) a network of philosophical questions and to the presentation about Europe's largest inter-university course that involved 1000+ students. All of them were truly inspiring and innovative on the topic: of impact and mission with and for society.

The PROFFORMANCE+ project has reached its halfway point. Approaching the end of 2023 we summarised an overview of the results achieved so far and a short teaser for 2024 activities.

The PROFFORMANCE Assessment tool is now available in Hungarian as well. 29 November 2023, almost 150 Hungarian  HE leaders, teachers, experts, professionals from quality assurance units and teaching and learning centers came together to see the launch of the Hungarian version. 

The PROFFORMANCE+ project achieved a pivotal turning point in the development of the PROFFORMANCE toolkit. The four newly developed sets of statements have been reviewed and tested for supporting finalization and harmonozation process. The conceptualization of the PROFFORMANCE+ short courses have been also supported by course analysis overviews and good practice presentations. 

At the EAIE2023 Conference, Profformance+ showcased the PROFFORMANCE Toolkit during the Poster Session. Szilvia Besze presented a methodology for its use, which received positive feedback from academic professionals across Europe.

The PROFFORMANCE project has won the EURASHE 2023 PHE Star Award for Digitalization at the annual conference of the European organisation in Bucharest.

Over 120 higher education teachers from the EHEA countries participated in the second PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinaro on Assessment of Students' Learning held on the 6th of June 2023. Six innovative practices in assessment of students' learning have been pr4esented. The practices ranged from integrating gamification in assessments to peer and collaborative assessments and were truly inspiring for transforming assessment practice and students' learning journeys.

The PROFFORMANCE Assessment tool will be further developed and complemented with statements measuring higher education teachers' competencies in digitalization, internationalization, inclusion, and sustainability, related to learning and teaching.

100+ higher education teachers, professionals, and institutional leaders come together to get an overview of the PROFFORMANCE project and products, and a panorama of different approaches and methodologies of the assessment of students' learning.

Hundreds of higher education teachers have been interested in the first PROFFORMANCE+ thematic webinar on Student-centred course design held on 28th March 2023. Participants could get acquainted with four international good practices on how to engage students and how to adjust courses to their needs to most effectively achieve learning outcomes.

PROFFORMANCE+ consortium invites you to the first session of the webinar series which takes place 28th March 2023, between 14.00-16.00 CET, online. 100+ higher education teachers, professionals, institutional leaders come together to get an overview on PROFFORMANCE project and products, and a panorama on student centred course variations.

PROFFORMANCE+ Thematic webinar series for higher education teachers

International good practice demonstrations and professional networking are the focus of the PROFFORMANCE international webinar series, where participants can learn about the teaching methodologies of higher education in 6 countries.

The PROFFORMANCE+ community came together for a peer-learning activity on 25th January to discuss their achievements and practices in 4 EHEA priorities (digitalisation, internationalisation, inclusion and sustainability) in teaching and learning at the national and HE institutional levels.

PROFFORMANCE+ activities continued with an expert kick-off meeting on 14th-15th November. The event was a good start and it will be continued.

Full and associated partners held an online meeting on 29th September 2022 to discuss the project’s administrative and professional issues, plan the schedule and detailed content of activities and agree on the roles of each partner and expert.  

The PROFFORMANCE project has ended, and the Assessment Tool and the International Teaching Excellence Database developed within the framework of the project were presented at the final conference in Budapest on 16 June 2022, in a hybrid format.

Spotlight on Higher Education Teaching Performance 

The European Commission has selected the PROFFORMANCE+ project for funding, so the consortium of 6 countries - expanded with new partners - will continue to work on improving the quality of teaching and learning between 2022-2025.

We highly appreciate your feedback on PROFFORMANCE project results. Thank you for your kind words.

Tempus Public Foundation, on behalf of the PROFFORMANCE International Consortium is organizing an information webinar on 25 November 2021 at 4 pm on the PROFFORMANCE International Higher Education Teacher Award.

Final report on PROFFORMANCE benchmarking survey

The PROFFORMANCE consortium announces an International Higher Education Teacher Award in partner countries: Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, and Serbia.

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Helpdesk: award.profformance@tpf.hu 

The third Peer Learning Activity (PLA3) took place on May 27 and June 7, 2021, that was organized by the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement – Georgia.

PROFFORMANCE experts have introduced a new dimension into the higher education teachers' competence matrix.

The PROFFORMANCE project consortium conducted an international survey in November 2020 among the higher education institutions of its partner countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Serbia). The first overviews of the findings can be already reached here. 

PROFFORMANCE experts continued their work after the successful preparatory day1 of PLA1 to define what competences needed for the 21st century teachers to fulfill their various and wide ranged tasks and activities in their academic life.

On the 8th December 2020 PLA, PROFFORMANCE experts discussed what roles, tasks and activities must a higher education teacher fulfill in the 21st century.

The PROFFORMANCE experts and partners worked virtually on the multi-aspect tool for assessing teachers' performance.

PROFFORMANCE Expert kick-off meeting  

PROFFORMANCE experts and partner representatives came together on the 23th June 2020 to prepare the first activities of PROFFORMANCE project.

PROOFORMANCE partners joined the ZOOM webinar for their first official meeting on the 18th June.2020