Socrates programme

For the 3rd year:

14th EAEEIE Conference 2003, 16th - 19th June 2003, Gdansk, Poland "Innovations in Education",

38 papers connected with the activities achieved within or around the thematic network have been presented during the conference (http://alf.fei.tuke.sk/publications/index.html) and some specific sessions, connected with THEIERE activities, have been organised during the conference.
The strong partnership with EAEEIE (http://www.eaeeie.org) is a useful channel for dissemination, particularly with the French Club EEA. The French Club EEA regroups 1000 members, teachers in Electronics, Power System and Automatic Control and is a good way to send some information at a French national level. As a complement, we may say some works are achieved by a working group within the Club EEA in order to make a census on ECTS and multi-national diploma available in France. Some members are also members of THEIERE which means that the co-operation between the thematic network, the European association and a national association are useful and fruitful for present and future works.

Co-operation with other associations and networks is on-going some national associations: As a parallel action we have started co-operation with other thematic networks in the fields of what we called "Science for engineers" in order to have a more global view,. This problem of adaptation of curricula is indeed shared by all the "Sciences for engineers". Contacts were already established with other Thematic Networks such as:

- Enhancing Engineering Education in Europe (www.ing.unifi.it/tne4)

- THENUCE (Thematic Network on Continuing Education)

- STEDE (Science Teacher Education)

Contacts and co-operation are already on the way with EUA (European University Association) and the student association (ESIB).

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