Start Date: 2016

Duration: 36 months

Brief Information & Main Objectives: The general aim of the project: strengthening interregional integration and cooperation through the development of reliable joint tools to strengthen the international dimension of higher education systems and their compatibility between the four regions and the EHEA; support the modernization, accessibility and internationalization of 24 PC Universities from 8 countries belonging to 4 different regions.

Specific objectives:

1.To share the knowledge of the credit system used in each partner country, to analyze the actual meaning “credit” in each partner institution and to develop common language for the definition of “Learning Outcome” and “Workload”.

2. To share information on if and how the ECTS are applied and used in the partner countries.

3. To enhance the human resource capacity in planning, delivering and evaluating degree courses through specific 1 week retraining of 111 staff in Europe.

4. To implement concrete pilot examples in some degree courses developed in the framework of previous joint projects.

5.To analyze the grade system in each country and in each Partner institutions and provide a concrete comparison in the selected degree courses.

6. To collect data on credits recognition and grade transfer within the project in 4 regions.

7. To provide a table with percentage of students’ performances in the last 3 years in at least 5 fields of study among the pilot courses.

8. To establish a Quality Plan for the assessment of activities and results of the project and conduct periodical evaluations.

9. To establish follow up actions in cooperation with EU universities by signing bilateral agreements in view of “Credit Mobility” program calls and inter-institutional cooperation.

10. To establish and apply appropriate dissemination strategies and tools of results, actions and documents to staff of other regional universities, to local authorities and to Ministries of Education, throughout the whole project. 

Project Coordinator: University of L’Aquila, Italy 

Partners:

• Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia
• Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia
• Ilia State Universiy, Georgia
• Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia
• Khazar University, Azerbaijan
• Baku Engineering University, Azerbaijan
• Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Samarkand Agricultural Institute, Uzbekistan
• Andijan Agricultural Institute, Uzbekistan
• Termez State University, Uzbekistan
• Ministry of Education and Science of Uzbekistan
• Kulob State University Named After Abuabdulloh Rudaki, Tajikistan
• Khujand State University named after Academician B. Gafurov, Tajikistan
• Technological University of Tajikistan
• Tajik State University of Commerce
• Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan
• Innovative University of Eurasia, Kazakhstan
• S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University, Kazakhstan
• Kazakh National Agrarian University, Kazakhstan
• Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau University, Kazakhstan
• Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic Of Kazakhstan
• Jusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University
• Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan
• Kyrgyz National Agrarian University
• Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyz Republic
• National University of Mongolia
• Mongol Ulsyn Shinjleh Uhaan Technologiin Ih Surguuli
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of Mongolia
• Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
• Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences
• Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation
• University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
• University of Szeged, Hungary
• Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation, UK
• University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Bulgaria

Contact:

Ulkar Bayramova

E-mail: ubayramova@khazar.org

Phone: +994 (12) 421 79 16/ ext 249