Smart Teaching in Accounting – Meeting Place Online Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart Teaching in Accounting – Meeting Place Online

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 : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Living in a period of serious transformations related to data, interface, people or experiences, we are thinking at the biggest impact on accounting education, research and practice of the digitalization. According to research performed there are awarns on the risk to the accountant profession, sugestions being made that technological knowledge to be integrated in the curricula and adapted to the change requirement.
Starting from these issues and the European concerns, in order to identify and to respond directly to the needs of our students as future graduates and accountants, we performed a survey, finding out the needs of students, teachers and employers related to this ticklist subject.
In accordance to these needs, the present project has as a General Objective: To create an international online environment in the digital era to reengineer/ replace the knowledge as well as key competencies and skills that will be acquired by students and teachers to be directly useful to the international financial-accounting labor market. In order to achieve it , two specific objectives are outlined:
SO1. To redesign the relationship between scientific and practical environment by innovative activities in comprehensive research in the scope of useful application in the teaching- learning- practical environment.
SO2. Restructure or replace knowledge and key competencies and skills that will be acquired by exploiting disruptive information technology in order to test and implement a custom platform that will help to support students and teachers and to promote and reward excellence in teaching and skills development.
In order to meet these objectives a large transnational partnership with high experience in teaching and research was formed.
Target group of the project are students from the partnership universities. Teaching staff are the direct beneficiaries of the project.
Activities performed are:
A1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
A2. DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, TESTING, REENGENEERIG AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE PRACTICES TROUGH IOs
A3. CREATION OF TEACHING-LEARNING MODULES TO BE TESTED ON ISPs
A4. ORGANISATION OF MEs
Expected results of the project are:
a) 1. A robust, innovative and freely accessible custom international learning platform to facilitate teaching/learning in accountancy and create a virtual meeting place between employers – students – teachers; 2. Agreements (Universities -Companies/ Professional bodies): 3. Research collaboration and co-creation among Companies/ Professional bodies, universities and students
b) A teaching concept for optimal use of the case studies (e.g. Problem-Base Learning) based on pedagogical collaborative alignment (key competencies in accordance to the international labor market companies- teaching objectives- teaching-learning activities- feedback/ evaluation);
c) Case studies that integrate current topics of information technology and performed using disruptive technology in Big Data and Audit, Digitalization and IFRS, Taxation in the Digital Economy, Non Financial Information Statement, CSR and Ethics in the Digital Era;
d) Research collaboration and co-creation among universities, employers and students
e) Best practice guide for applying smart and innovative teaching-learning methods in accounting, with the aim of providing key competencies and skills.
The partners have experience in previous Erasmus + programs.
One of the overall result of the project is a comprehensive, unique and innovative international learning platform as a Meeting Place Online.
We expect that our project will have an impact on a regional, national and European level. The outcomes of the project will enhance the quality of education of the higher education institutions using all the intellectual outputs innovatively produced within the project. The students will increase their employability in internationally acting institutions. Also the project could foster international labour market mobility. Overall we expect a significant enhancement in teaching in higher education institutions in Europe.
The project results focus on supporting innovation in financial accounting domain, developing innovative intellectual products focused on the market’s needs and providing a structured dissemination and exploitation of the developed innovative intellectual products, enhancing the quality and relevance of students’ key knowledge and skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 257111,99 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG
• BUDAPESTI CORVINUS EGYETEM
• DIETHNES PANEPISTIMIO ELLADOS
• BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK
• UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
• ISM VADYBOS IR EKONOMIKOS UNIVERSITETAS UAB