Tim Scholze
Scientific officer, The German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning, Germany
Tim Scholze has been working in R&D in different educational sectors related to innovative learning fields in VET and AE and as scientific expert in (Universities of Kassel, German Institute for ADULT Education, DVV International, the REVEAL group).
He holds a PhD in educational sciences and is chairman of the blended learning institutions’ cooperative (blinc eG); a European umbrella organisation of experts from practice and science from 22 EU members states working on competence oriented learning and validation of informal and non-formal learning.
Since 1997 Tim has developed and coordinated various European projects in the framework the Lifelong Learning/ERASMUS+ Programme and its sub-actions (LdV, Grundtvig, Comenius, KA3), LIFE+ (Environment) programme, the eLearning initiative, INTERREG, the ESF and the Climate KIC (EIT, H2020) since 1997. Since then he has designed and managed more than 50 transnational European projects, mainly in the field of innovative, cross-sectoral and participative learning approaches, competence based learning, validation of key competences and regional capacity building; partly with a focus on projects related to sustainable development and climate change.
Since 2015 he is scientific officer in a research and development project at the German Institute for Adult Education (www.die-bonn.de) which aims at developing an interactive, open learning space for the large community of adult educators in Germany.
Since the early 90s he has been regularly teaching in the VET and Adult Education sector. Currently, he is teaching at the University of Duisburg Essen of the module “International Adult Education” with a focus on Validation of informal and non-formal learning. He has gained an extensive list of keynotes and panel inputs on the topics of blended learning and VINFL since 2007.