Facilitation

IDE offers facilitation services to support various stakeholders in education in leading complex strategic and development processes. Through expert consulting and facilitation (via working meetings and interactive workshops), IDE assists public authorities and other stakeholders in the development, advocacy and evaluation of educational policies, and helps educational institutions improve and innovate educational practices. IDE also offers services for moderating professional conferences and seminars.

Services

• Leadership of strategic document development processes
• Consulting for higher education institutions and public authorities
• Quality assurance in higher education: Preparation for initial accreditation / reaccreditation
• Analysis and expert review of documents
• Facilitating the process of implementing institutional changes or applying institutional evaluations
• Moderating panel discussions, seminars, meetings, etc.
• Delivering lectures and professional presentations at conferences and seminars

Key references

Collaboration with institutions from Croatia:

• Facilitation of the Application of the Croatian Qualifications Framework: IDE led the process of developing occupational standards, qualification standards and adapting study programmes at 6 HEIs, and trained employees from 8 HEIs.
•  Facilitation of the development of public policy recommendations (2022-2023): IDE led the process of developing recommendations for equity and inclusion in education in Croatia. IDE facilitated the work of 5 working groups of the Lifelong Learning for All Network, with a total of 25 members from research institutes, educational institutions and associations.
• Roundtable Moderation: IDE led a roundtable organised by the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy on evaluating the Croatian Qualifications Framework.

Collaboration with institutions from abroad:

• Facilitation of the development of a European framework for the social dimension of higher education: The IDE led the process of developing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) framework for the social dimension of higher education, in collaboration with representatives from the ministries of 48 EHEA member states. The framework was adopted at the 2024 EHEA Ministerial Conference.
•  Facilitating the implementation of self-assessment and action planning tools at higher education institutions: The IDE facilitated the implementation of self-reflection and action planning tools for Community Engagement in higher education for all 13 members of the “EUNICoast” European University Alliance.
•  Moderation of an expert conferences: An IDE staff member moderated the international conference “MSCA 2020.HR MSCA Impact and Future challenges” organised by the Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes.