Implementing a Central Asian Centre for Teaching, Learning and Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Implementing a Central Asian Centre for Teaching, Learning and Entrepreneurship

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Currently universities of economics and business in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have to master a series of challenges. They have• to demonstrate that they are reliable providers of good quality higher education by providing graduates with competencies required to evolve their professionality and to develop capacity for the labor market• to enrich the qualification-portfolio of HEI-teachers by improving their teaching qualifications• to complement and contribute to the co-creation of knowledge and to the knowledge exchange between universities and enterprises in innovative settings• to develop their students competencies and attitudes to enable them to act as innovative and responsible members of the society.In this joint project “Teaching Competencies in Economics and Business” served universities of economics and business as catalyzer to master these challenges. To support the development of excellence in this field a “Central Asian Center for Teaching, Learning and Entrepreneurship – CACTLE” was implemented in the innovative form of an international acting virtual expert network with a sustainable perspective.The CACTLE is dedicated • to qualify and certify HEI-teachers in modern Teaching Competencies in Economics and Business for the target groups: students, employees of private companies/public institutions and entrepreneurs.• to offer a course program and in class and long-distance training material for further training courses for enterprises/institutions to link the universities to business and industry, using specific modalities of teaching and learning patterns.• to develop a core-curriculum and teaching and learning material for an accredited elective “Entrepreneurship and Business development” at all participating universities.In the long run the CACTLE has a clear sustainable impact on human capacity building of Central Asian countries and acts as an international service network to foster the knowledge triangle.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 942604 Eur

Project Coordinator

WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITAT WIEN & Country: AT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA
• KYRGYZ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER JUSUP BALASAGYN
• TOSHKENT SHAHRIDAGI XALQARO WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITETI
• ISHENALY ARABAEV KYRGYZ STATE UNIVERSITY
• JOINT STOCK COMPANY NARXOZ UNIVERSITY
• KARAGANDA ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY OF KAZPOTREBSOYUZ
• L.N. GUMILYOV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY