Personalised Engineering Education in Southern Africa / PEESA III Erasmus Project

Project Title

Personalised Engineering Education in Southern Africa / PEESA III

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

South Africa is a country that continues to fight with poverty, high levels of unemployment and inequality despite the fact that economic growth has slowed down in recent years. “Basic enablers” for Southern Africa’s sustainable growth, employment creation and reducing income inequality are especially HE institutions with business enabling environment, education and skills as mentioned in the Strategy Paper of the country. Particularly, successful organization of engineering education is related to the increasing relevance of the issues that are directly reflected in South Africa’s National Priorities. One of the greatest challenges Southern Africa is facing at the moment is the acute shortage of engineers. The White Paper (Dep. of HE&T, Nov. 2013) proposes the introduction of on-line learning as appropriate to increase access, enhance quality and improve throughput and success.Using the knowledge developed by all partners the output of the proposed project PEESA III are: a) Design of min. three (3) engineering degree programmes at Partner Country’s HEIs aligned with EUR-ACE standards, effective use of ICT, flexible learning path, transversale skills and closer University – Enterprise cooperation.b) Finalise self-assessment reports for EUR-ACE Accreditation of three (3) MA programmes on Energy Efficiency developed within the Edulink’s PEESA project, c) Increase the number of female students in engineering at Partner Country’s universities together with closer University-Enterprise cooperation.As a result we get better employability of graduates, more engineering students (especially female students) which contribute to regional sustainable growth as well as social and cultural development. We promote student centred learning by accommodating their different learning styles as well as different circumstances in which students find themselves.The national and international mobility is supported through mutual recognition of degrees and modules.

Project Website

http://peesa.usz.edu.pl/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999883 Eur

Project Coordinator

HOCHSCHULE WISMAR & Country: DE

Project Partners

• VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
• DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
• CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
• ASIIN CONSULT GMBH
• TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
• HOCHSCHULE FLENSBURG
• UNIVERSITATEA LUCIAN BLAGA DIN SIBIU