Modernisation of Master Curriculum in ICT for Enhancing Student Employability Erasmus Project

Project Title

Modernisation of Master Curriculum in ICT for Enhancing Student Employability

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The ICT sector is one of the leading ones in the economy of Belarus. This has created a gap between the challenges of the global market & skills/competences ICT graduates have at entering the profession. The companies state the high level of professional knowledge of university graduates but low level of soft/transferable skills necessary to work in international teams. The aim of the project is to enhance employability of ICT master students & foster entrepreneurship & establishment of SMEs in ICT by modernising the existing master curriculum in ICT. The modernised MSc programme in ICT will be more labour-market & society oriented, practice-based, & student-centred training students in professional subjects leading to knowledge, hard skills & competencies in the profession with soft/transferable skills presupposing its interdisciplinarity. The project meets the agenda of the Yerevan Ministerial Communiqué of “ensuring educational opportunities to provide the competences and skills required for innovation & employment”. By enhancing quality & relevance of learning & teaching to the labour market & society demands the project will promote pedagogical innovation in student-centred learning environments & stronger link between teaching, learning & research central to the EHEA policies.The project will achieve 7 milestones: (1) upgraded professional & new soft skills courses, (2) study materials, (3) QA guidelines/procedures for the modernised MSc, (5) 3 intakes of students, (6) 8 international student projects, (7) measurements of pedagogical approaches & methods appliedThe project will produce impact at university level (beneficiaries are master students & teachers on modernised MSc programme), at society level (any person fitting master level study as a potential student of the modernised MSc, potential employers & wider society who will be users of services of successful SMEs established by the MSc graduates in future), at European & global level (ICT companies).

Project Website

https://macict.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 888417 Eur

Project Coordinator

HOCHSCHULE EMDEN/LEER & Country: DE

Project Partners

• EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION SUKHOI STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF GOMEL
• BREST STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• POLOTSK STATE UNIVERSITY
• BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATICS AND RADIOELECTRONICS
• IT-UNIVERSITETET I KOBENHAVN
• UNIWERSYTET WROCLAWSKI
• YANKA KUPALA STATE UNIVERSITY OF GRODNO