EBLIDA Annual Council Meeting

Seminar on Libraries, Archives and Information sectors facing the European Higher Education Area

Estoril, Portugal, 14 May 2004

Opening of the EBLIDA Annual Council meeting and welcome

Jan-Ewout van der Putten, President EBLIDA

Opening of the Seminar

“Libraries, Archives and Information sectors facing the European Higher Education Area”

Pedro Hípola, Vice-President EBLIDA

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA)

Pedro Lourtie , Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA)

Proposal for a Directive on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications

Mr Joao Armando de Abreu Rocha, European Commission

Abstract on Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications

The proposal for a new directive (COM (2002)0119)

IMPORTANT: These papers do not legally bind the Commission or DG MARKT

10h40 – 11h00   Coffee break

The adaptation of LIS degrees and curriculum to the Bologna Process in Europe

Prof Asumpció Estivill, Member of EUCLID Governing Board and Dean Faculty of Librarianship and Documentation, University of Barcelona (Spain)

Adaptation of LIS degrees and curriculum to the Bologna process in Europe

A European referential of competencies for the archives sector

Mr Didier Bondue (International Council on Archives, France)

A Competency Model for Business Archivists

European accreditation of Library and Information Science studies

Ms Marion Huckle (CILIP, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK)

European accreditation of LIS Studies

How can the European library, archive and information sectors and professionals participate in the European Higher Education Area?

Open discussion

Conclusions and closure

Pedro Hípola, Vice-President EBLIDA

14h30 – 17h00   EBLIDA annual Council meeting (see separate agenda)

20h00 -               Dinner at Restaurant "Visconde da Luz", Jardim Visconde da Luz, P- 2750-416 Cascais