Accelerating ICT students’ startup development competence via interdisciplinary modular courses in the HEI curricula Erasmus Project

Project Title

Accelerating ICT students’ startup development competence via interdisciplinary modular courses in the HEI curricula

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The proposed project is aiming to enhance interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity in ICT education at the higher educational institutions in Russia and Kazakhstan. Both involved partner countries have inherited their higher education systems from Soviet Union, where the key feature was fundamental education and deep focus on technical skills, but which rarely involved sufficient interdisciplinary training or development of soft skills. As currently both interdisciplinarity and entrepreneurial soft skills become an important factor for labour market, and thus partner country universities require guidance in its development. While contemporary ICT-tools and pedagogical approaches are being widely implemented for hard skills development, in the sector of soft skills partner country universities are falling behind their EU counterparts.The project is achieving the proposed goal by developing and implementing IT-entrepreneurial module in the curricula of IT-majors on bachelor, master and PhD levels. The developed module includes ICT competence hard skills module, entrepreneurial soft skills module and acceleration block that are included in student curricula. The project also aims to develop assessment algorithm for measuring of entrepreneurial soft skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 815609 Eur

Project Coordinator

HOCHSCHULE WISMAR & Country: DE

Project Partners

• KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER A.N. TUPOLEV-KAI FEDERAL STATE BUDGET-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL INST HIGH PROF EDUC KNRTU
• PRODUCTION-COMMERCIAL COMPANY BETAR
• PETER THE GREAT SAINT PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
• ALMATY MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY
• CASPIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGIES AND ENGINEERING NAMED AFTER SH. YESSENOV
• EKONOMIKAS UN KULTURAS AUGSTSKOLA
• TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL