Development of curricula
WP2
Development of curricula
On the basis of the submitted report on flooding prevention in the countries of the EU, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and developed curricula in this field, the objectives, competencies and outcomes of the curricula will be defined within the framework of WP2 that will be improved at the partner countries’ universities. For the purpose of developing new master and the modernization of the existing bachelor, the universities BOKU, USCM and UNIRC shall organize study visits for teachers from universities from Serbia and BiH, who will be practically introduced to the teaching process at these universities. According to the knowledge acquired and with the support of the universities from program countries, each university will develop and modernize the existing subbjects on the basherol programme. The harmonization of syllabuses of the subjects at universities in Serbia and BiH will ensure that the engineers have a joint approach to the solving of erosion and torrent control problems. The number of new subjects that will be introduced is 9, and modernization of the existing subjects by introducing new teaching units shall be performed for 18 subjects in the study programs of the first and second degree. The goals, competencies and outcomes of the new master program will be in line with the basic recommendations of the Bologna Declaration. The master program will have a workload of 60 ECTS since the partner countries’ universities have a structure of education 4 + 1 + 3. The master program will include: 7 subjects (5 compulsory, 2 electives selected from 10 offered), study-research work, professional practice and master work. Sylabus for subjects will include areas: land degradation, soil erosion protection, torrential watershed management, land melioration, natural disasters risks management, organizational and socioeconomic aspects of protection from torrential floods. Up to 50 students will be enrolled in the studies.
Lead Organisation: P2 (UNS-Serbia)
Activities
The activity includes the defining of the conditions for the improvement of the curricula in compliance with the Bologna Process and the existing laws on higher education, statutes and other legal acts. The development of the Bologna Process in European countries, as well as other legal acts and strategy, will also be analyzed and compared with the degree of the application of the Declaration at the universities of the Balkan States. Partners on the Project: P1-P5, P7-P9 will participate in this activity.
The defining of the goals/objectives, competences and outcomes of learning is one of the most important activities. This activity will include the universities of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (P1-P5). The carrying out of this activity complies with the standards defined by the accreditation of the existing study programs, from which proposals for thenew master programme and for the improvement of the existing bachelor programme will arise.
Every single university will, upon the adoption of the goals/objectives, outcomes and competences, proceed to form new subjects and the modernization of the existing syllabuses by introducing new curricula units. The forming of new subjects shall comply with the adopted recommendations and good practices of the partners from the EU. P1-P6 will participate in the implementation of this activity.
According to the adopted goals, outcomes and competences, the universities of the partner countries will establishe a new master program that will be common to all universities. The master curriculum will be in line with the adopted recommendations and good practices of EU partners, and the subjects syllabuses will cover the areas of land protection from erosion and prevention from torrential floods. P1-P6 will participate in the implementation of this activity.
Within this activity, study stays with teachers and students from Serbian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian universities at EU countries’ and Macedonia’s universities are planned. The goal of the study stays is obtaining a perception of the teaching process at the universities (methodologies, pieces of equipment etc.) and the adoption of good practices in those countries.
The proposed master curricula will be complied at the level of universities in each one of the states and at the level of the countries. The application of the adopted good practices of the EU universities will be implemented at all the universities and complied with the syllabuses of master programme. The proposed changes in the existing bachelor curricula will comply between the universities so that the syllabuses of the subjects could contain the adopted fields as priority ones. Doing so will ensure that graduate students have one unique methodology for solving problems of flood prevention.
EU university teachers visiting the universities of the Balkan countries and the conducting of training for teaching classes in new master programe. Training will be conducted for teachers from all universities of the partner countries. All partners on the Project will participate in this activity.