Fostering Competencies Development in Belarusian Higher Education / FOSTERC
Project Duration: 36 месяцев
Project Number: 574087-EPP-1-2016-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP
Project status: finished.
Project Members & Partners
- Politechnical University of Valencia (Spain) – Lead beneficiary and Project coordinator
- Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (Lithuania)
- University of Bialystok (Poland)
- University of Turku (Finland)
- Belarusian State University (Belarus)
- Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus)
- Belarussian State Pedagogical University (Belarus)
- Francisk Skorina Gomel State University (Belarus)
- Grodno State Agrarian University (Belarus)
- Polotsk State University (Belarus)
- Brest State University (Belarus)
- Belarus State Economic University (Belarus)
- Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (Belarus)
- National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE – Belarus)
- University Solutions, USSL (Spain)
PROJECT AIM
The main aim of FOSTERC is to strengthen the use of innovative principles and
approaches to teaching and learning in the Belarusian Higher Education Institutions for
the improvement of graduates’ learning outcomes.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- To provide indicators for conceptualize Belarusian HE learning outcomes in terms of competencies development
- To upgrade and improve innovative teaching methods and the development of pedagogical creativity
- To strengthen student assessment and education management information systems for the improvement of the quality of Belarusian HEIs and matching the social and economic demands
- To equip Belarusian participating HEIs with the necessary information tool to facilitate the implementation of internal and external quality assurance assessments
- To modernize the systems and practices of data collection and analysis in the Belarusian HE system through the development of an integrated ‘Management Information System’ improving HEIs’ management in teaching and learning activities. All these objectives will positively change the situation set out previously and will improve the overall quality of Belarusian universities.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
- Mapping teaching modes and learning outcomes in Belarusian HEIs
- Conducting surveys to: graduates, teachers and employers
- Organisation of training workshops: involving teaching and support staff, technicians, university administrators, managers.
- Organisation of training visits of Belarusian partners to EU universities
- Definition of a full model of education on the description of learning outcomes
- Establishing a student-centred teaching model based on competencies development and its implementation as a pilot activity
- Building a constructive process of recognition & validation of competencies & innovative teaching
PROJECT IMPACT
It will foster competencies development for matching the social and economic demands and improve the overall quality of HE. Implementing these reforms, it will support the modernisation of governance, management and functioning of Belarusian HEIs, and the upgrade and improvement of teaching and learning methodologies. It will provide trainings, methodological tools and indicators for conceptualization of learning outcomes, and integrate good practices and new methods into daily activities. It will also provide the necessary information and tools to facilitate the implementation of internal and external quality assurance assessments, supporting, at the end, the modernisation of Belarusian participating universities and hopefully the modernisation of the rest of Belarusian HEIs. Specifically, FOSTERC project will support the modernisation of governance, management and functioning of Belarusian HEIs
FOSTERC website - http://www.fosterc.bsu.by/
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