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2024-12-03 09:49:47

PROFFORMANCE Teacher Award Call: one week left to apply

Apply your best practices for the PROFFORMANCE International Higher Education Teacher Award! The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2024.

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2024-11-11 11:47:25

PROFFORMANCE Institutional Ambassadors met for the first time

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. 

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2024-10-16 10:53:53

PROFFORMANCE+ Webinar on ​Digitalization of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Registration is now open!

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2024-10-14 10:53:49

PROFFORMANCE for Empowering Educators with Student-Centered Approaches

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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2024-09-23 13:12:35

A Call for Excellence: the PROFFORMANCE International Higher Education Teacher Award Call is open

The PROFFORMANCE Award is more than just recognition; it is a platform for educators to showcase their dedication to teaching excellence and to inspire others in the field. 

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2024-09-12 09:33:17

REPORT ON PROFFOMANCE+ WEBINAR ON SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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.

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2024-06-21 12:51:41

Exciting peer review activity on PROFFORMANCE short courses - PLA4 Day 2

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.

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2024-04-18 08:25:10

REPORT ON PROFFOMANCE+ WEBINAR ON INTERNATIONALISATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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.

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2024-03-26 17:30:41

Artificial Intelligence as assistant for course development? - PLA4 Day 1

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.

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2024-03-05 11:12:54

REPORT ON PROFFORMANCE+ WEBINAR ON INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY - ADDRESSING DIVERSE STUDENTS' NEEDS

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.

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2024-01-25 08:05:55

A diverse team of experts met in Tbilisi

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.

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2023-12-15 10:40:30

REPORT ON PROFFOMANCE+ WEBINAR ON INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

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.

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2023-12-15 10:37:55

REPORT ON PROFFOMANCE+ WEBINAR ON IMPACT AND MISSION WITH AND FOR THE SOCIETY

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.

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2023-12-11 10:49:14

Milestones and Achievements: Profformance Project Unveils Mid-term results

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.

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2023-12-11 10:28:43

Presentation of the Hungarian version of the PROFFORMANCE Assessment tool

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. 

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2023-12-11 08:59:14

PROFFORMANCE PLA2: A pivotal turning point

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. 

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2023-10-05 13:49:27

Profformance Toolkit presented at the EAIE2023 Conference

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.

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2023-06-28 15:24:37

The PROFFORMANCE project has been awarded

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

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2023-06-16 09:38:07

REPORT ON PROFFOMANCE+ WEBINAR ON ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS' LEARNING

 

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.

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2023-06-15 11:11:28

Effective and productive peer-review and great discussions

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.

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2023-04-24 10:52:30

Assessment of students' learning | 6th June 2023

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.

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2023-04-18 15:32:48

REPORT ON PROFFOMANCE+ WEBINAR ON STUDENT CENTRED COURSE DESIGN

 

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.

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2023-03-07 12:55:12

PROFFOMANCE+ webinar on Student centred course design

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.

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2023-02-24 10:42:47

PROFFORMANCE+ Thematic Webinar series

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.

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2023-02-03 12:01:43

Mutual peer learning continued in PROFFORMANCE+

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.

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2023-01-22 17:23:41

The expert work has started

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

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2023-01-22 17:08:42

PROFFORMANCE+ started with Partner Kick-off Meeting

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.  

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2022-09-13 13:16:31

PROFFORMANCE project enters a new phase

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.

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2022-06-28 14:10:35

Successful international project and excellent HE teachers at the PROFFORMANCE final conference

Spotlight on Higher Education Teaching Performance 

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2022-06-28 10:27:32

Winners of the first PROFFORMANCE International Higher Education Teacher Award

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2022-03-01 18:19:29

PROFFORMANCE+ is on the horizon

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.

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2021-12-01 15:05:47

Feedback on PROFFORMANCE project results

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

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2021-11-16 11:42:36

Info webinar: Call for proposals - PROFFORMANCE International Higher Education Teacher Award

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.

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2021-10-20 00:36:53

The landscape of higher education teachers’ performance

Final report on PROFFORMANCE benchmarking survey

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2021-10-19 22:30:36

International Higher Education Teacher Award 2021/22

 

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

Apply here

Helpdesk: award.profformance@tpf.hu 

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2021-06-16 17:01:17

PLA3 of PROFFORMANCE project

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.

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2021-05-13 13:57:56

Towards a 2D and 3D competence matrix of teachers - results of the PLA organised by Czechia

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

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2021-01-28 12:24:26

Teaching and learning practices mapped in PROFFORMANCE partner countries

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

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2021-01-28 12:18:43

Focus on teachers' competences - Experience of PLA1 Day2

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.

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2021-01-28 12:18:24

Tasks and activities of 21st century teachers- Results of PLA1 Day1

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

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2021-01-28 12:17:42

PROFFORMANCE PLA virtually

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

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2020-07-10 15:14:48

PROFFORMANCE expert kick-off meeting

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.

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2020-04-21 15:54:19

PROFFORMANCE Partner kick-off meeting

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

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2020-04-21 15:53:16

PROFFORMANCE project launch



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