The 'Tuning' methodology
The project “ Tuning educational structures in Europe" started in 2000, by a group of universities who wished to address the issues posed by the Bologna declaration collectively, coordinated by the University of Deusto (ES) and the University of Groningen (NL).
A methodology was designed to understand curricula and to make them comparable, through 4 lines of approach:
- generic competences
- subject-specific competences
- the role of ECTS as an accumulation system and
- the role of learning, teaching, assessment and performance in relation to quality assurance and evaluation.
All together, the four lines of approach allow universities to ‘tune’ their curricula, without losing their autonomy and their capacity to innovate. In its second phase the project worked on the consolidation of its findings together with a series of stakeholders (professional associations, employers, quality assurance agencies etc.), and transferred its methodology to the Socrates-Erasmus Thematic Networks. Being such a Thematic Network, the Polifonia project will also involve Tuning activities.
The Polifonia Tuning working group is currently developing an overview of the Tuning activities in the professional music training sector, thereby using the standard Tuning template. When ready, the overview will be published on this webpage.
More information about the ’Tuning’ project and methodology can be found on the official Tuning project website: http://tuning.unideusto.org/tuningeu.
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