Juan Garcia Blesa from FernUniversität in Hagen presented EDELNet (European Distance Education in Law Network) as part of the online events by expert pool Transnational Education within EMPOWER.

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The Faculty of Law
FernUniversität in Hagen

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Content
I. Strategic Partnership
II. Cooperation Plans
III. E+ Project Activities

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The European Distance Education in Law Network (EDELNet)
Strategic Partnership between
 FernUniversität in Hagen (FeU)
 Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNl)
 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Furthering cultural exchange and best practices in high quality legal education
– LLB, LLM, PhD
Three transversal objectives:
 Intercultural communication skills
 Student-oriented blended active learning
 High quality scientific production
I. The Strategic Partnership

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Short- and medium-term:
 International common teaching & research activities (E+ EDELNet Project)
 Cooperation with non-Partners
Long-term:
 Joint LL.M. and PhD Programs;
 Sustainability of LL.B. common teaching activities.
II. Cooperation Plans

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1. Virtual and face-to-face teaching activities
 Intensive Study Programmes (LLB, LLM, PhD);
 Virtual Mobility Modules;
2. Staff training activities
 Intercultural communication;
 Student-oriented methods of active learning;
3. Common courseware (mostly PhD training in research methods)
 key methodological and substantive areas of the law, including interdisciplinary methods
of knowledge production applied to legal practice and scholarship;
 language competences;
 intercultural communication skills.
III. E+ Project Activities
Project awarded with funding from the DAAD-Erasmus+ Programme for Strategic
Partnerships (KA2: Call 2015) for the period 2015-2018

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