The following networks are
relevant for the community of European researchers in vocational education
and training (VET):
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the FORUM (FORUM for European
Research in Vocational Education and Training), which emerged as an informal
group in the mid-1990s, received temporary support by the European Commission
(1998-2001), and resumed its informal activities after this period;
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CEDRA (CEDEFOP Research Arena),
initiated in the late 1990s with the aim of promoting opportunities for
researchers to collaborate in sharing and developing knowledge about vocational
education and training;
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Project partnerships, supported
by the European Commission via the Leonardo programme, the research framework
programmes (FP4 and FP5) and similar programmes; included are 29 projects
(from the period 1995 to 2003) which are related to vocational education;
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ECER: this refers to the participants
in the annual European Conference on Educational Research who have contributed
to its programme on vocational education, run by VETNET (The Vocational
Education and Training NETwork); since VETNET has no formal membership,
these ECER participants (aggregated number of persons since 1998) are taken
to represent VETNET.
The participants identified
for the individual networks are of course overlapping. The largest community
is formed by the ECER/VETNET participants (blue bar), who are also represented
in the individual networks (blue part of each bar). However, a considerable
part of researchers, particularly in the project partnerships, have never
been involved in this community. In the next section (starting with figure
3) we shall look at the network relationships of project partners. |
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