TOPAS

EU PROJECT ERASMUS+ № 585603-EPP-1-2017-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (2017 – 3299/001-001)
«FROM THEORETICAL-ORIENTED TO PRACTICAL EDUCATION IN AGRARIAN STUDIES/TOPAS»

Erasmus+ grant amount: 977963,00€
Breakdown of the project costs foreseen for National university of life and environmental sciences of Ukraine and its general amount according to the budget 132510,00€

Project goals and objectives:
- Implementation of student-centered practice based education in Agrarian studies of Ukraine, Armenia and Uzbekistan by introducing and improving vocationally oriented practical programs.

Coordinator of the project at NULES Prof. A. Dibrova

Partner-universities

•  National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
•  Writtle University College (Great Britain)
•  Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland)
•  University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Lasi (Romania)
•  Sumy National Agrarian University (Ukraine)
•  Armenian National Agrarian University (Armenia)
•  Yerevan State University (Armenia)
•  Andijan Agrarian Institute (Uzbekistan)
•  Samarkand Agrarian Institute (Uzbekistan)

Role of the NULES:

•  revision of course assessment and learning outcomes on regional economy;
•  intensive teacher training program;
•  capacity building and formation of supporting staff to monitor and administrate internship schemes according to EU models;
•  raising awareness of practice-based education;
•  use of internship data collection for further research activities, educational and farm policy guidelines.

Equipment:

• practice oriented literature;
• computers, interactive screen & audiovisual recording tool;
• online data bank with server.

Project activities:

• Revision of existing programs in regional economy.
• Suggestion of new models for internships.
• Development of more student-centered and practice-based form of education teaching methodology, tools & infrastructure.
• Cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform for promoting enterprise-university cooperation, increasing collaboration with farm industry and innovating in practice-based teaching and learning.
• Quality monitoring and project evaluation.
• Diffusion and exploitation of the project process and results.
• Financial & operational project management.
• Plannig.
• Executing.

Expected results of the project are:

• Reinforcement of direct connections between both HEIs, enterprises and the Ministries.
• Creation of a specific databank that can be useful for the needs of farm enterprises, economists, policy makers and decision-makers in the agricultural secto
• Establishing of publications, round tables, conferences, presentations and portfolio of teaching materials available to deliver practice-based education that present best practices and to hand out a handbook with lessons learned from the piloting phase.
• ECQIP is a model of reference in beneficiary countries.
• EU partners consolidate the existing links with third country partners.
• Dissemination & raising awareness on the project and the project results.
• Project coordination, financial and operational management performed.
• Preceding Memorandum of Understanding has been prepared identically in English and Ukrainian.