Financial Agreement number

Observatory on the degrees available in EIE in Europe, and state of the implementation of the Bologna-process

to implement a survey of the Bologna process in EIE at the bachelor level, at the master level but also at the PhD level (relations with the TNP "Teaching and Research in Engineering in Europe TREE" for example). The activities will be the finalisation and update of the maps of European undergraduate and postgraduate studies: two monographs² have been achieved during the THEIERE project (2000-2003), and THEIERE-DISS TN, (2004-05) but information on some countries is lacking, and some needs updating because the situation is always evolving. PhD studies will be added, together with the identification of the existing links between masters and PhDs, taking into account the master courses which will prepare the students for PhD studies. A census of the existing international curricula in EIE will be integrated in the monographs.
Organisational aspects

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  The organisational approach and structure developed within the partnership to manage the project: describe the role(s) of individual partners, organisation of the work and the way transnational cooperation has taken place (e.g. steering groups). Please indicate also any other organisations/contacts involved / to be involved in the project.
  

The project is managed by a managing team, which is composed of six persons: O. Bonnaud (Université de Rennes 1), T. Ward (University of York), M. Hoffmann (Universität Ulm), J. Ligus (University of Košice), G. Jervan (University of Tallinn), MJ Martins (Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa). These six persons work in close cooperation with the co-ordinator of the project (JM Thiriet, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble) and the account manager (Michel Robert, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1).

Each activity of the project is coordinated by two or three co-managers, and the managing teams in Santander and Wels regrouped all the co-managers, and 6+2 persons above.

A managing board is operational (see below in the part dedicated to evaluation).

H. Ferdinande (U. Gent) is the councellor of our project from Tuning, and our project is a partner of the TN Forum.

Some national coordinators exist for coordinating information from various countries. These national coordinators can be different for various tasks.
Methodology, tools and technology used / to be used

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  The educational and teaching approaches promoted within the project: give details about their nature and impact on the end-users / participants / target group.
  

For the main activities of the project, the strategy consists in defining what is the information we want to obtain in order to elaborate some questionnaires, elaborate a dissemination strategy for the questionnaires, gather the information coming from the questionnaires, prepare the corresponding report, and define a dissemination strategy for the report.

Concerning the questionnaires, the approach consists in designing the questionnaire, validate the questionnaire inside the working group, then validate the questionnaire with other partners, and finally give it to the colleages to be filled in (October 2006-March 2007)

For the main purposes of the project, we plan to focus on competences in the Tuning project approach, student centred approach (project based learning…), quality in learning in the various activities, specially the activities dealing with quality. We will also continue the development of pedagogical resources in EIE (to complete the existing mediatheques) and implement a quality assessment in some of these resources.

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