INES: Venue and New Website Announced!

Aug. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- The 4th European Conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector" (INES) has announced the venue for its event in Brussels, Belgium on the 21st of September, 2011. The Bedford Hotel & Congress Centre at Rue du Midi, 135 will provide the conference with facilities for the discussion of themes related to the environmental sector, human resources development, and competence modelling. Participants organized by the WACOM project consortium, host of the conference, include representatives from the European Commission, competence modelling experts, and European standardisation bodies, ensuring a competent and influential audience and thus a fruitful exchange of ideas.

Additionally, the WACOM consortium has created a new website for the INES conference. This website will serve as the centre for all information regarding registration and the conference itself in the coming weeks. The website is available under the previously existing URL www.learning-innovations.eu.

The European Conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector" (INES) is focusing new ways and approaches for the lifelong learning by competence models, E-Learning and social communities. INES 2011 continues the discussion developed at the first three related European conferences in Vilnius (Lithuania), Budapest (Hungary) and most recently in Bucharest (Romania) last September in 2010. The WACOM consortium has organized and utilised these previous opportunities, along with national workshops in each of the WACOM partner countries, to raise the awareness of the stakeholders in the water sector, human resource development, and vocational education and training concerning the benefits and implementations of competence modelling in the water sector.

The conference is organized in conjunction with the European Conference "Competence Modelling for the Water Sector" that will present the major outcome of the European WACOM consortium and initiative for competence modelling in the water sector: The Water Competence Model (WCM) with its tools for harmonized descriptions of job profiles and working places in the water sector. The overall objectives of WACOM are the transfer and adaptation of a competence model to the water sector and its integration and harmonisation with the European Qualification Framework (EQF), thus contributing to European competence standardisation and improving vocational education and training.

Attendance at the European conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector" (INES) is free of charge and requires online registration as places are limited. No more submission of papers related to the conference is possible. All accepted papers will be published in the official proceedings of the European Conference (with ISBN) and distributed to all conference participants and across whole Europe. Specific guidelines and requirements can be found on at www.learning-innovations.eu.

Direct enquiries can be sent to the WACOM project manager Xenia Kuhn, University of Duisburg-Essen, via e-Mail at: xenia.kuhn@icb.uni-due.de.

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The department of Information Systems for Production and Operations Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen is involved in the R&D of the following fields:

E-Learning
Knowledge Management
Decision Support Systems
Skill/Competence Management