In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; when in practice, there is indeed

J.L. Van Snepscheut

• He participated as a technical counselor requested by the Social Services Department at the Lleida Town Council, in the elaboration of the educational program for the 1985-1986. course

• He coordinated the Teaching Commission of the Board for the Handicapped of the Barcelona Town Council (1983-87).

• Founder and secretary of the Communication and Learning Association (COMAP) (1988-94).

• He is part of the counseling commission of the Spiral Association of Education and Technology (des de 1989).

• He was invited as an international counselor by the Academic Vice-Chancellor of the for the creation of a doctoral program within the "Course of training and enhancement of research for doctoral research" (1994).

• He participated as a technical counselor and in response to an invitation of the CIREM (Center of European Initiatives and Research in the Mediterranean) in the debate about school failure and success organized by the Fundació Jaume Bofia (1996).

• He is part of the Permanent Forum about University Teaching at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (des de 1999).

• He has been invited as a counselor and specialist in themes related with university teaching in different foreign universities: Del Valle (Cali, Colombia. 1994), Central de las Villas (Santa Clara, Cuba. 1999), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago de Chile, Chile. 2000), Católica de Valparaiso (Viña del Mar, Chile. 2000), Escuela Normal Superior (Tepic, México. 2000). Politécnica de Nicaragua (Managua, Nicaragua. 2001), Andrés Bello (Santiago de Chile, Chile. 2001), Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Montevideo, Uruguay. 2001), Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (Caracas, Venezuela. 2004), Mayor de San Simón (Cochabamba, Bolivia. 2005), Del Desarrollo (Santiago de Chile, Chile. 2006), Del Mar (Viña del Mar, Chile. 2006), De Antioquía (Medellín, Colombia. 2006) (1994-2006).

• Counseling: "Psycho-educational assessment for the report of students with special educational needs" addressed to psycho-educational counseling teams (EAPs) of the Departament d’Ensenyament de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2000-01).

• "Analysis of the professional environment and reflection about key aspects of the counseling role". Addressed to counselors in centers of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands from the Inspectoria de centres Salesians (2000-01).

• He has been asked to participate as an assessment advisor of the “Special Education Plan” of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2003).

• He is also part of the Technical commission for the certification of external distance learning courses at the UAB (from 2005).

• He participates as guest professor in several PhD programs that have a quality distinction awarded by the Spanish government called “mencion de calidad”: (“Text and discourse comprehension: cognitive processes and instructional applications” University of Salamanca; “Psychological development, learning and education: contemporary perspectives” Autonoma University of Madrid) (2005).

• He evaluates research projects for several regional public institutions (Department of Education and Sciences of the Valencian Government; Department of innovation, sciences and business of Andalucia) as well as national public institutions (National agency of evaluation and prospects of the Ministry of education and sciences) (from 2005).

• He is an associate editor of the journal Childhood and Learning (from 2006).

• He participates as an evaluator of the publications’ service of the Jaume I university of Castello (2007).

• He acts as evaluator of papers and workshops for EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction) (from 2007).

• He assesses projects of curriculum innovation at the university, based on competencies. Web: http://www.coesun.com/ (from 2007).

• He coordinates projects of innovative learning (improvement of teaching quality in universities. AGAUR):
  • “Comunidades de aprendizaje en el Practicum de Psicopedagogía: una propuesta de evaluación por carpetas virtuales”. (from 2003 until 2006)
  • “Peer-Practual: tutoria entre iguales en los Practicums de Magisterio y Psicopedagogía” (from 2006 until 2008)

• He coordinates research projects (National research plan of MEC):
  • “Evaluación del conocimiento estratégico a través de tareas auténticas”. (from 2004 until 2007)
  • “Evaluación de las estrategias de cooperación y co-regulación en contextos educativos a través de tareas auténticas” (from 2007 until 2010)

• He coordinates a research project together with Anna Cros (research grants of UAB):
  • “¿Existe un estilo de gestión femenino? Estrategias de los gestores universitarios”. (from 2005 until 2007)

• He is involved in the Marie Curie Actions European project on “Collaboration Awareness Tool for CSCL users” (from 2008 until 2010).