Standards Teaching in University Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Standards Teaching in University Education

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

The purpose of STUNED project is to support Universities to enrich their curricula by developing and integrating into them innovative educational modules in the area of standardization and application of selected set of international standards of the International Organization for Standardization /ISO/, some of which are adopted also as European standards.
The provision of STUNED standardization training courses for lecturers and the development of training modules focused on the selected ISO standards and intended to be integrated into the relevant university courses for students by the trained lecturers will contribute to meet common challenges such as the digital shift and the need of encouragement regarding the standards’ usage as well as the improvement of the trainees’ ability for practical application of different standards and competences which is a valuable asset to any professional qualification.
The STUNED beneficiaries are categorized as:
Internal beneficiaries:
– University lecturers from partner HE organizations who are not involved in the direct implementation of the project’s activities and outputs;
– University lecturers from partner HE organizations who are trained in the selected standards;
– Students from the educational organisations, participating in the partnership, who are trained in modernized curricula.

External beneficiaries:
– Lecturers from other HE institutions not involved in the STUNED partnership;
– Professional networks, employers’ unions, and associations which are not involved in the partnership.

The STUNED aim and objectives will be achieved by the following activities:
– selecting appropriate standard for training of University lecturers and afterwards for University curricula modernization;
– development of e-learning courses to the university lecturers to be trained;
– development training modules for selected standards
– modernizing selected curricula with developed modules and piloting with involvement of students.

The main expected results are:
– Research analysis and selection of ISO standards and university specialties / curricula to be modernized via integration of training modules focused on standardization (development of a Map table curricula-standard);
-Training courses on standards for university lecturers – development and lecturers’ training;
– Development of training modules for students on standards for selected subjects;
– Modernizing the University curricula and their approbation (piloting);

The direct impact on the participating organizations shall be as follows:
On the educational organizations:
– The elaboration of courses for university lecturers;
– The elaboration of modules regarding standardization addressed to student.
– Modernization of educational programmes and curricula

On the Standardization organizations:
– Promotion the knowledge on standards and standardization

The indirect impact will be in the following forms:
– Other standardization and HE institutions which are not directly involved in the project will get ready-to-use products;
– A better quality of the labor force.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 248045 Eur

Project Coordinator

PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ASOCIATIA DE STANDARDIZARE DIN ROMANIA
• BURGASKI SVOBODEN UNIVERSITET
• Bulgarski institut za standartizacia (BDS)
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA
• TURUN YLIOPISTO
• RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE