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Accessibility and Harmonization of Higher Education in Central Asia through Curriculum Modernization and Development (АСADEMICA)

Name of the project: Доступность и гармонизация высшего образования в Центральной Азии через модернизацию и разработку учебных программ (Асademica)

Project number: 561553-EPP-1-2015-1-BG-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Its innovative character is expressed by:

  • Innovative ACADEMICA training methodology integrating modern pedagogical approaches and content which aim to equip lecturers with transversal and key competences and skills necessary for their active inclusion in the global digital teaching and learning space.
  • ICT-based educational opportunities: The Project provides more flexible accessibility to training opportunities through the usage of ICT-based approaches;
  • Modernized University curricula in Engineering Sciences integrating contemporary technology-based approaches and contents.
  • Establishment of a transnational co-operation system among Universities and business organizations that is designed to improve the capacity of Higher Education Institutions in the Partner countries from Region 7 thus achieving excellence by linking education, innovation and business.


The Project is expected to create short- and long-term benefits for Higher Education, business and society by generating European Added Value through:

  • the acknowledgment of European educational standards beyond the EU borders;
  • fostering the link “education-business-society”;
  • enhancement of the inter-cultural dialog among the participating countries;
  • inspiring the supply of open free of cost educational resources;
  • provision of a common framework which stimulates the exchange and synthesis of experiences and best practices gained through collaboration of experts in different spheres from the EU and Central Asia.

Partners:

  • Burgas Free University BG Bulgaria
  • University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum AT Austria
  • International Information Technology University KZ Kazakhstan
  • Kazakhstan Association of Engineering Education KZ Kazakhstan
  • Abay Myrzakhmetov Kokshetau University KZ Kazakhstan
  • Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute KZ Kazakhstan
  • Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan UZ Uzbekistan
  • Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan KZ Kazakhstan
  • Samarkand Agricultural Institute SAI UZ Uzbekistan 
  • Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University KZ Kazakhstan
  • Tashkent University of Information Technologies UZ Uzbekistan
  • Turkmen State Institute of Culture TM Turkmenistan
  • Turkmen State Institute of Finances TM Turkmenistan
  • Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi IT Italy
  • Universitat Politecnica de Valencia ES Spain
  • CF "Fund" Zhas Otan "of Akmola region", Republic of Kazakhstan KZ Kazakhstan
  • Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan TM Turkmenistan
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