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ECLO is proud to announce that its 17th International conference will be held in Istanbul, 2010 European Capital of Culture,from 12th-14th May, 2010 "Learning Excellence, a Survival Guide in Troublesome Times"

Because of its association with the EU funded projects Ti-Saeto and Trans-Saeto, ECLO has dedicated a strand of its conference to Quality, EFQM and self-assessment

The fundamental objective is to build a bridge of arguments and sympathy from the learning organisation treasure of thinking to the only official model of management for the development of converting whole organisations in learning and improving bodies. Organisational learning cannot be successful without the will and capacity of the learners to accept and actively position themselves in varying perspectives onto the common learning object. This is the way to relate themselves to their environment and to cope with changing and challenging realities. EFQM is not the outcome of an engineering process functional logic as we still can perceive it in the ISO 9000 model. It is a systemic model aiming at continuous change through learning and improvement from measuring performance against the consciously perceived needs and expectations of an organisation’s stakeholders, self-set targets and benchmarks provided by the best competitors.

 

ECLO Partners with Two EU Funded Projects.

• Led by the University of Liechtenstein, Trans-SAETO is a project that during 2009 and 2010 pilots and implements a previously developed solution for quality management in education and training in at least 30 different schools and universities with a focus on the German speaking parts of Europe, i.e. the Principality of Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, as well as Slovenia.
• TI-SAETO intends to build on the success of a previous Leonardo da Vinci project by developing the software product and experiences gained, by enhancing the cultural and national diversity offered by two Turkish universities, a Latvia partner and ECLO, supported by a German university who was one the original SAETO partners.

Some of the Key Speakers on Quality / EFQM

• Ergi Martin is the Business Excellence Manager at Bosch (Turkey). Bosch (Turkey) were 2008 Award Winners and Prize Winner in Management by Process and facts in Partnership Development twice winners of the EFQM Excellence Award
• Józefa Fawcett, a former Head of Organisational Development in the UK NHS and now Founding Director of OFQT Ltd specialising in quality standards, sustainable excellence and sensemaking using cognitive mapping, narrative capture, knowledge sharing, professional supervision, auditing, assessment and evaluation. 
• Andreas Dalleuge is the representative of the IBK-Group to the EFQM and works as European Excellence Assessor, in which role he acts as a team leader for the European EFQM Award.
• Alaa Garad is an assessor and chief examiner in several national and regional quality and excellence awards in the United Arab Emirates and GCC, including Dubai Quality Award, Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award, Abu-Dhabi Govt. Award and King Abdul-Aziz Quality Award.
• Emel Arslan is the Business Excellence Plant Coordinator of Robert Bosch (Austria) and EFQM Excellence Award Assessor. Emel will lead a panel discussion on Quality in Turkey
• The Mayor of the Nilüfer Municipality of Bursa, 2008 EFQM Finalist will be a panel member of a discussion on Quality in Turkey.