Innovating quality assessment tools for pharmacy studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovating quality assessment tools for pharmacy studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

IQPharm project is centered on raising the quality and modernization of pharmacy studies at public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina including reinforcement of semi-structured experiential education (EE) in compliance with EU standards and regulations of higher education for regulated professions. The IQPharm objectives are:1. Development of academic staff professional and pedagogical competencies for more interactive and practical approach to delivery/teaching and assessment of the existing pharmacy curricula through the exchange of best practices between partner and programme institutions and active involvement of major stakeholders in real sector.2. Improvement of courses delivery through the introduction of assessment tests – Knowledge Retention Evaluation Framework (KREF) and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for pharmacy students.3. Improvements in experiential education (EE) educators’ (pharmaceutical professionals) training and development of E-platform for EE management and administration.The introduction of new tools for the quality assessment of study programs (KREF) will enable the development of evidence-based recommendations for changes, modification and innovations of the existing methods of knowledge transfer, teachers’ didactic approaches and syllabi. The introduction of new system of knowledge assessment gained through the EE course (OSCE) will set equal standards at the national level for learning outcomes of pharmacy graduates. The E-platform will ensure modernization of EE monitoring.Intensive cooperation with EU partner institutions and mobilization of all relevant stakeholders in BiH is anticipated to explore potential new models and approaches to innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods, achieving high standards of educational process and learning outcomes in accordance with the labour market demands.

Project Website

http://erasmus-iqpharm.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 797542 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU & Country: BA

Project Partners

• THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU
• SVEUCILISTE U SPLITU
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO DI CHIETI-PESCARA
• JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET U TUZLI UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM TUZLAENSIS
• UNIVERZITET U BANJOJ LUCI
• UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAR