The National Qualifications Authority of Ireland and the Higher Education Authority jointly organised a conference in April 2010, as part of the national Bologna Expert programme, entitled:
National Qualifications Frameworks and the European Overarching Frameworks: Supporting Lifelong Learning in European Education and Training.
Reference was made to the uses of the Europass portfolio of documents during the conference. Full details of the conference and a report of the conference are available here.
The most recently available statistics from CEDEFOP, show a marked increase in visits to the central Europass portal and use of the Europass CV during March 2010, in comparison with the same period in 2009.
08 May 2009 The Higher Education Authority and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland will co-host a Colloquium on "The Bologna Process and Employability" on Thursday 21 May 2009 in Croke Park Dublin. For further information please click here
03 February 2009 Referencing the Irish NFQ to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF): The process to reference the NFQ to the EQF has begun. The National Qualifications Authority of Ireland has convened a National Steering Committee to assist it in the referencing process.