[EGRACONS newsletter] Newsflash

Egracons Rome Meeting

Dear partners,

We hope you all had a pleasant journey back home. We would like to express our gratitude to all of you for your valuable input to the project meeting in Rome. Special thanks goes to the hosts at Sapienza University of Rome, namely Prof. Luciano Saso, Mattea Capelli and Alessandra Gallerano who kindly assisted us with the preparation of a very fruitful event. We would also like to thank Maria Sticchi Damiani, the project's external evaluator, for her constructive remarks about the project and her insightful analysis.

We will be in touch with you again shortly with a follow-up from the meeting and some information regarding the next steps. We thank you once again for your collaboration.

The Egracons Coordinating Team

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Egracons tool Workshop

Dear Egracons partners and subscribers,

The EGRACONS project partners will deliver a workshop The EGRACONS tool for the conversion of grades in Europe: a practical approach that will be organised at the ERACON annual conference held between 13-17 May 2015 at the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Porto, Portugal. The workshop will take place on 14 May, from 9.30 to 10.30 in Room G201 (Building G).

The participants will be able to familiarize themselves with and use the tool to test both single and transcript conversion between their own and other universities across Europe providing they submit the grading tables in advance. Otherwise, they can test the tool using the name of one of the project partner universities. The workshop will be the first real testing opportunity with an external audience.

The speakers will be:

• Chair: Valère Meus, Ghent University, Belgium

• Anthony Vickers, University of Essex, UK

• Rafael De Paz, University of Leon, Spain

Prospective participants can submit their grading tables based on the templates available here: http://egracons.eu/document/grading-table-instructions-and-template at the following email Valere.Meus@UGent.be.

More info about the ERACON Annual Conference 2015 available here http://eracon.info/?id=234.

We look forward to meeting you in Porto.

Publication of Grading Table instructions

The Egracons team has published a set of guidelines for institutions to create their own grading tables. The Egracons tool, that will allow direct and automatic conversions grades, is being built on the basis of annual, statistically-based grading tables supplied by individual institutions as part of an overall database. Detailed instructions on how to construct grading tables are available here.