Summary 13-14 January 2010Münster, Germany
The Chair welcomed the new members: Greece, Hungary and Romania, as well as the Spanish Presidency.
Highlights of discussions regarding the Common Curricula Coordination Working Group included:
- The proposals for renaming of the Common Curricula Coordination Working Group and revised tasks will be presented at the 19th Governing Board meeting;
- The Business Case concerning the contracts for Module Advisers and Educational Experts sent to the Commission; outcomes will be reported;
- That the two new Common Curricula are close to finalisation. One will be distributed to Member States for comments and presented at the 19th Governing Board meeting;
- The 2nd National Common Curricula Coordinators Annual Network Meeting is in the planning stages.
- Ongoing considerations on how to make specific courses and content on the Learning Management System on CEPOL’s e-Net accessible for non-course participants;
- A revision of the Train the Trainers curriculum for adaptation for non-trainers is planned;
- A draft list of questions was presented to the committee as a guideline for information on police education systems which Member States could add to CEPOL’s website on a voluntary basis.
- Suggestions for concrete project implementation for the fulfilment of the Stockholm Programme were presented.
- A progress report announcing that the latest modules will be launched by the beginning of April;
- Suggestions for new e-learning modules in 2010 and 2011.
- The Research and Science Conference in the Netherlands was reported to be successful;
- Eight new members were selected and will be proposed at the 19th Governing Board meeting;
- The group remits were amended due to new developments since it was establishment; these will be presented at the 19th Governing Board meeting;
- Recommendations were given by the group for the amendment of the Q13 in order to enhance the use of results of police research in CEPOL learning and training activities;
- The SEPEB progress report was discussed and an additional meeting for the group will be proposed at the 19th Governing Board meeting.
- The establishment of a group to prepare an outline of the required preparatory activities for an Exchange Programme similar to the Erasmus Programme, including a Programme Reference Group, CEPOL Secretariat, the Presidency and the SEPEB Group.
