Budget
828 000 Euro
Period
15/10/2012 - 14/10/2015
Coordinator
University of Koblenz-Landau
EU partners
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
Le Mans University
Stichting The Network University
Ukraine:
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Sumy State University
National Mining University
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Khmelnytskyi National University
Institute of telecommunications and global information space
Belarus
Belarusian State University
Brest State University named after A.S.Pushkin
Ministry of Education of the Republic Belarus
Moldova
Comrat State University
Trade Co-operative University of Moldova
Ministry of Education of Moldova
Georgia:
Batumi State University named after Shota Rustaveli
Kutaisi University
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia
Summary
The problems of the education systems of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Georgia for the recent transition period are quite similar. Although the problems are not academic in nature, they do have a negative impact on the outcomes and outputs of the latter. The main difficulties refer to absence of economic sustainability in the new political, economic, and social paradigm. Yet another problem is the absence of market-oriented university management, the Soviet legacy former soviet countries are still fighting to overcome. As a result, there is a lack of practical experience in organization of university functioning under the given conditions. Therefore, adopting the EU experience will both bridge this gap and create comparability with the EU standards, former soviet countries are striving for.
The broad objective of the project is to develop and implement a complex integrated information management system at the universities of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Georgia, based on European experience and on the PC Universities ground. Specific objectives address adaptation to PCs’ conditions of EU experience and practices on design and use of integrated information management system, development of guidance on the principles and practices of construction and effective use of integrated information management system.
The objectives will be met through forming a new style of managerial information flows; elaborating necessary software; creating the infrastructure; and teaching university administrators to use this infrastructure. Especially the modern style of university management in EU is connected with use of new computer and managerial technologies.