REBUS

Seasons Greetings 2018-2019

January 1, 2019

Badges, RE-DIRECT, REBUS, REVEAL Project, Seasons Greetings

Happy New year to all of you! Looking back onto 2018 gives me some mixed feelings. I just had a look at last years’ season’s greetings and must admit that things haven’t developed in an extraordinarily positive direction – neither related to international nor European affairs. Right wing movements are getting stronger and European values being ignored and trampled underfoot, increasing conflicts and decreasing cooperation became a reality in a Europe which has to re-define its identity. Will we go…

REBUS goes to Berlin

December 7, 2018

Tim Scholze

conferences, economics, REBUS, REVEAL Project

The world of eLearning meets in Berlin in the first weeks of December for nearly a decade. The Online EDUCA Berlin (OEB) is one of the largest fairs for technology supported learning. This year REBUS was presented in the framework of the REVEAL network stand organised by blinc together with the German Institute of Adult Education.

REVEAL at the Validation festival 2018

June 18, 2018

Tim Scholze

conferences, REBUS, REST, REVEAL Project

REVEAL had a stand at the first validation festival carried out in Brussels with more than 300 participants. We presented our network, the LEVEL5 approach and the running projects. There is a small video on Tim’s 2 min pitch about REVEAL; please have a look. There was a lot of interest especially in our projects and initiatives on entrepreneurship (REBUS), our integration projects that include LEVEL5 like COME IN, REST and VIC and on cultural heritage and validation (BADGES) .…

REBUS Training course in Essen, Germany

December 20, 2017

Tim Scholze

Projects, REBUS

Between 13th and 15th November 2017 training for staff of higher education institutions of partner countries was held at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The topics of the Transnational Train the Trainer Course included entrepreneurship, the REBUS entrepreneurship learning programme, validation of entrepreneurship competence, introduction to REBUS software, visit to “Innovationsfabrik”, Co-Working spaces and meetings with startups, REBUS entrepreneurship learning program and implementation of REBUS (for staff and students) in partner countries. Despite the very large group (~35 trainers) the training…

REBUS Competence Framework

November 6, 2017

Tim Scholze

Projects, REBUS

In Autumn 2017 blinc developed the REBUS competence framework based on the LEVEL5 reference systems. The REBUS competence inventory is an open catalogue of competences that are relevant for entrepreneurship education. We grounded the development of the CF on the works of the Entrecomp project. EntreComp describes Entrepreneurship as a combination of 15 “aspects” which describe the abilities of an entrepreneur along three main phases of the entrepreneurial process: Developing ideas and opportunities Mobilising resources Putting everything into action…

Results of REBUS Stocktaking on Entrepreneurship Competences

September 17, 2017

Tim Scholze

Projects, REBUS

In the first phase of the REBUS project a large scale stocktaking was carried out in the Balkan and Russian partner countries, guided by University of Duisburg-Essen and the blinc eG. The research design included the desk research requirements, the online questionnaire and the interview questions form. The online questionnaire was answered by over 800 respondents from the 6 non-EU partner countries and revealed interesting outcomes which were presented at the project meeting in Sarajevo. The stocktaking report can be…

March 6, 2017

Tim Scholze

Projects, REBUS

REBUS stands for REady for BUSiness and it is a the large project to create and validate entrepreneurship competences at universities in Balkan countries and Russia. It was designed by the Prof. Branko Vučijak from the University of Sarajevo, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Bosnia and Herzegovina and two members of the REVEAL community (die berater and blinc) and successfully submitted at the EACEA under the KA2 programme Capacity Building in Higher Education. REBUS aims at the development of a competence oriented teaching…