Public profile Alfredo Soeiro

Civil Engineer by the U. Porto, Portugal in 76;PhD in Civil Engineering by the U. Florida, USA in 89; from 98 till 03 Pro-Rector of U. Porto for Continuing Education and ICT ; since 04 Academic Dean and Vice-Dean of Civil Eng. at U. Porto; since 91 representative of U. Porto in EUCEN ((European University Continuing Education Network) and from 92 till 97 Vice President; from May till 98 member of Council of EAEEIE (European Association of Electronic Engineering and Information Education); from 93 till 95 member of Advisory Panel of EDEN (European Distance Education Network); from 95 till 01 member of the Council and from 01 till 04 President of the IACEE (International Association for Continuing Engineering Education); from 99 till 2005 member of ODL Liaison Committee .

From 99 till 02 Chair of Special Interest Group of Prometeus on Higher Education Best Practices on ODL); from 01 till 05 President of AUPEC (Portuguese Association of Universities for Continuing Education; from 03 till 05 President of SEFI Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs; expert invited by the DG XXII, European Commission on European Credit Transfer on Continuing Education in 95 and as evaluator of the Socrates Thematic Networks, Brussels from 97 till 99

Expert of Group G in Lifelong Learning and Access to Education of the European Commission from 02 till 04; contractor of Grundtvig project Equipe - European Quality in Individualized Pathways in Education in Europe; partner in other European projects like “Quality Manual of ODL”, “FACILE – Facilitated Open and Distance Learning” and “Atelcoma – Application of Teleworking to Management”; consultant of the project InnoUniLearning; member in 2006 of the International Hall of Fame in Continuing Education; member of Tempus project Eqibelt ; coordinator of project Atlantis EU-US DAETE; member of Advisory Board of E-Business Watch.