LEFIS PLANNED ACTIVITIES:
2007 AND MORE
Fernando Galindo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
LEFIS Coordinator
Teaching in the Faculties of Law: Privacy
LEFIS Meeting
Lapland University
Rovaniemi (Finnland)
19th January 2007
Summary
2007
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2007: learning and teaching
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LEFIS TUNING TEMPLATE + Internal reviews on documents on
graduate studies, postgraduate studies and continuing education
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Review by TUNING reviewer.- Katherine Isaac from Pisa
Learning material: LEFIS modules and courses
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Reviews by LEFIS reviewers (Leith, Kleve, Basu, Bohne, Petrasukas)
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Ellaboration of learning and teaching material on Privacy to put in the
LEFIS web, and to publish in english (by a review committee and a
double peer review system) attending to the publisher’s requirements
 Ellaboration of e learning modules, attending to these models:
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Blended module: using MOODLE
Pure module: using ADD
Commercial module: using SUMO from FASE
Reviews of the LEFIS learning material and modules
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Last meeting in Jaca (Pyrenees) 19-21 July 2007
2007: research+development+innovation
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Scientific Workshops
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Public Administrations, Identification Management
and Regional Development, Camerino (Italy).- 8-9
June 2007
Administration of Justice, Valladolid (Spain).- 22-23
June 2007
Legal Informatics and E-Governance as tools for
the Knowledge society, Reykiavic (Iceland), 13-14th
July
LEFIS Final Conference
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Wroklaw (Poland), September 2006
More
TUNING
 Applications
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Teaching
 Research and development
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More: TUNING
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TUNING
LEFIS will made a critical study of the
answers on the learning Area Law, given in
Europa by different teachers, firms and
institutions, to the questionnaires proposed
by the TUNING project
 The answers are compilated by the
European Law Faculty Association (ELFA)
 By invitation of the TUNING responsibles
(Deusto and Kroningen)
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TUNING SPECIFIC COMPETENCES FOR LAW
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Demonstrate knowledge of principal features of the legal
system including general familiarity with its institutions
and procedures*
Demonstrate knowledge of legal principles and values in
a wide range of topics extending beyond the core
curriculum*
Demonstrate some in-depth knowledge of specialist
areas*
Demonstrate critical awareness in the analysis of the
legal order*
Ability to identify and apply primary legal sources*
Ability to identify and apply all legal sources of relevance
for a specific legal issue*
Ability to identify societal concerns and values behind
legal principles and rules*
Ability to identify contemporary debates and engage with
these while accurately reporting the applicable law*
Ability to make a distinction between reasoning founded
on law and policy-based arguments*
Ability to identify and work with principal aspects of a
foreign legal system*
Ability to act independently in planning and undertaking
complex legal tasks*
Ability to identify and comprehend legal issues*
Ability to identify relevant legal (including procedural)
issues from a large body of unstructured facts*
Ability to create new or imaginative solutions through
approaching a problem by using legal material in
different ways*
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Ability to decide whether factual circumstances are
sufficiently elucidated for a legal decision*
Ability to render a reasoned legal decision*
Ability to draft legal provisions (legislation, contracts)*
Ability to conduct legal research for giving legal advice*
Ability to be aware of the need for a multidisciplinary view of
legal problems*Ability to conduct academic legal research*
Ability to present knowledge with range of professional
presentation skills (oral and written)*
Ability to write fluent and technically sophisticated prose,
using legal terminology accurately*
Ability to read a range of complex works within and about
law and to summarise their arguments accurately*
Ability to work in cross-disciplinary teams as the legal
expert of the team and contribute effectively to its task*
Ability to advise an interested person on the possible
outcome of a case, and outline alternative strategies leading
to different solutions*
Ability to identify and collate relevant statistical or numerical
information and use it in a report*
Ability to use relevant IT-tools, i.e. word-processing,
standard information retrieval systems, web-resources, and
ability to specify technological tools needed for personal
support*
Ability to reflect on own learning*
Ability to seek and make use of feedback*
Awareness of the ethic dimension of legal work*
Ability to use a foreign legal language*
TUNING COMPETENCES FOR LAW : A SUMMARY
SUSTANTIVE ASPECTS
 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 TOOLS ASPECTS
 PRACTICAL ASPECTS
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SUSTANTIVE ASPECTS
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LAW AND JUSTICE
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Demonstrate knowledge of legal principles and
values in a wide range of topics extending beyond
the core curriculum
Demonstrate knowledge of principal features of the
legal system including general familiarity with its
institutions and procedures
Ability to identify and apply primary legal sources
Ability to identify and apply all legal sources of
relevance for a specific legal issue
Ability to identify and work with principal aspects of
a foreign legal system
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
COLABORATIVE ASPECTS
 ATTITUDES: PERSONAL
PERSPECTIVES IN THE ACTIVITIES
OF THE JURIDICAL PROFESSIONS
 DEMOCRATIC USES
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COLABORATIVE ASPECTS
Ability to be aware of the need for a
multidisciplinary view of legal problems.
 Ability to identify and collate relevant
statistical or numerical information and
use it in a repor
 Ability to work in cross-disciplinary teams
as the legal expert of the team and
contribute effectively to its task
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ATTITUDES: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE
ACTIVITIES OF THE JURIDICAL PROFESSIONS
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Ability to identify societal concerns and values
behind legal principles and rules
 Ability to identify contemporary debates and
engage with these while accurately reporting
the applicable law
 Ability to make a distinction between
reasoning founded on law and policy-based
arguments
 Awareness of the ethic dimension of legal
work
DEMOCRATIC USES
Ability to identify and comprehend legal
issues
 Ability to identify relevant legal (including
procedural) issues from a large body of
unstructured facts
 Ability to advise an interested person on
the possible outcome of a case, and
outline alternative strategies leading to
different solutions
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TOOLS ASPECTS
AUXILIARY TOOLS
 SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER
 LANGUAGE USE (VERBAL AND
WRITING)
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AUXILIARY TOOLS
Ability to use a foreign legal language
 Ability to use relevant IT-tools, i.e. wordprocessing, standard information
retrieval systems, web-resources, and
ability to specify technological tools
needed for personal support
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SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER
Ability to conduct academic legal
research
 Ability to create new or imaginative
solutions through approaching a problem
by using legal material in different ways
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LANGUAGE USE (VERBAL AND WRITTING)
Ability to write fluent and technically
sophisticated prose, using legal
terminology accurately
 Ability to present knowledge with range
of professional presentation skills (oral
and written)
 Ability to draft legal provisions
(legislation, contracts)
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PRACTICAL ASPECTS
PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC
 AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE
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PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC
Ability to read a range of complex works
within and about law and to summarise
their arguments accurately
 Ability to conduct legal research for
giving legal advice
 Ability to render a reasoned legal
decision
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AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE
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Demonstrate critical awareness in the analysis
of the legal order
Ability to reflect on own learning
Ability to seek and make use of feedback
Demonstrate some in-depth knowledge of
specialist areas
Ability to decide whether factual circumstances
are sufficiently elucidated for a legal decision
Ability to act independently in planning and
undertaking complex legal tasks
PROBLEMS WITH LAW TUNING
Where are considered the competences
to made lawyers, judges, judicial
secretaries, notaries, registers, civil
servants...activities in the specific
competences for Law in TUNING?
 The context of discussion in TUNING is
too abstract
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Applications
Teaching
 Research+development+innovation
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Applications: Teaching Ia
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Lifelong Learning Programme.- Erasmus
programme
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Intensive programmes: 6 weeks
Support will be given to projects which:
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Respond to new needs and challenges emerging at
European level;
Present a strong multidisciplinary approach;
Are part of integrated programmes of study leading to
recognised double or joint degrees.
Deadline: 30.3.2007.- 3 partners
Applications: Teaching Ib
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Lifelong Learning Programme.- Erasmus
programme
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Multilateral projects
Curriculum development (CD) projects
 Projects focusing on cooperation between higher
education and enterprises
 Projects supporting the modernisation agenda
for universities
 Virtual campus projects
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Deadline: 30.3.2007.- 3 partners.- 2 years
Applications: Teaching Ic
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Lifelong Learning Programme.- Erasmus programme
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Networks (on Law area)
 Focus on issues relating to access to higher education;
 Address the “knowledge triangle” of education, research and innovation;
 Address issues relating to governance and diversification of higher education
institutions;
 Link general higher education, advanced vocational education and training with the
world of work;
 Map and update the state of the art in their field and explore ways to foster more
European cooperation;
 Define and update generic and subject-specific competences using the same
method as the pilot project “Tuning Educational Structures in Europe”;
 Develop standards for quality assurance in their particular field, taking into account
the quality references and guidelines adopted in Bergen in May 2005 (Bologna
Process);
 Address subject areas which are not yet addressed so far by projects in this field of
action, such as economics, literature, philosophy, mathematics and the cultural
dimension of education;
 Map and check “rare knowledge” in any given discipline or transversal subject by
compiling a list of disappearing teaching methods and concepts.
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Deadline: 30.3.2007.- 31 partners.- 3 years
Applications: Teaching Id
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Accompanying measures
Accompanying measures will support
communication and valorisation activities as
well as thematic monitoring of projects in
the Erasmus programme.
 Deadline: 30.4.2007.- 1 year
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Applications: Teaching II
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Lifelong Learning Programme
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Leonardo da Vinci programme
Multilateral projects: transfer or development of
innovation
 Networks
 Accompanying measures
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Applications: Teaching III
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Lifelong Learning Programme
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Transversal programme
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Key Activity 1: Policy Cooperation and Innovation
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Key Activity 2: Languages
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Multilateral projects (2 years)
Networks (3 years)
Key Activity 4: Dissemination and Exploitation of Results
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Multilateral projects: new materials/ online courses / awareness raising:
Projects promoting multilingual comprehension; Projects promoting linguistic
diversity (2 years)
Networks: For promotion and application of competences allowing multilingual
comprehension; (3 years)
Accompanying measures will support communication and valorisation
activities as well as thematic monitoring of projects on the “Languages” key
activity (1 year)
Key Activity 3: ICT
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Studies and comparative research: Development of statistics and indicators;
studies and comparative research; support for policy development (3 years)
Multilateral projects (2 years)
Deadline: 30.4.2007
Applications: R+D+I
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Research+development+innovation
FP 7 programme
 It is possible to have partners coming from
all the world
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Security
 Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
 Information and Communication Technologies
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Security
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Deadline: 31 May 2007
 6. Security and Society / 6.5 Ethics and justice
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SEC-2007-6.5-01 How to take the necessary measures to
ensure the security of citizens while respecting the civic rights
and how this is implemented in practice, particularly
addressing the issue of privacy and security
SEC-2007-6.5-02 Ethical implications of the continuum of
internal and external security
Modalities.- Collaborative project and
Coordination and support action (supporting)
Socio-economic sciences and
Humanities
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Deadline: 10 May 2007
 Area 8.6.1. How indicators are used in policy
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Area 8.6.2 Developing better indicators for
policy
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SSH-2007-6.1.1 Current use of and emerging
needs for indicators in policy
SSH-2007-6.2.1. Improved ways of measuring both
the potential for and impact of policies
Modalities.- Collaborative research projects
(small or medium-scale focused projects)
Information and Communication
Technologies
Deadline: May 8, 2007
 Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted
Network and Service Infrastructures
 ICT-2007.1.4 Secure, dependable and
trusted infrastructures
 Modalities.- CP, NoE, CSA
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