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Open Access to the Belgian Nuclear higher Education Network
A Belgian model for European integration
As the Consortium BNEN, six Belgian universities (KULv, UCL, UG, ULg, VUB, ULB) have established in collaboration with the federal Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, a common Belgian Interuniversity Programme of the 3rd cycle, a "Master after Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering".
Open Access to BNEN was an FP6 project that ended in 2007. The aim was to use the experience of the Consortium BNEN for the realization of a common "European Programme in Nuclear Engineering".
Objectives
The objective of the BNEN project was to provide:
- Commonly accepted evaluation methodologies especially adapted for the assessment of education programmes
- The conclusions of an external evaluation of the BNEN scheme by EU-25 stakeholders in combination with a self assessment of the scheme, both based on the afore-mentioned evaluation methodologies
- Recommendations and suggestions how the BNEN scheme and experience can be used for the creation of the common "European Nuclear Education Programme", and in extension how the scheme can be useful for the set-up of European education programmes in general
- Points of particular interest that are of importance to stakeholders of the new member countries and to women, and that therefore need to be integrated into the common "European Nuclear Education Programme"
The BNEN project has contributed to the mobility of the European scientists and the creation of the European Area of Higher Education, to the integration of the new member states and candidate countries into the European Research Area and thus to the enlargement of Europe and also to the reinforcement of the place and role of women in science.
Websites
- Open Access to BNEN: www.sckcen.be/bnen/openaccess
- BNEN website: www.sckcen.be/bnen/