Coopération sur l'Assurance qualité et Innovation pédagogique : Sciences et techniques de l’ingénieur en Afrique Centrale

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The objective of the Central African engineering schools of the CITAC project is to raise significantly quality standards of their engineering training, implicating actors from society and companies in the conception of adapted curricula to local labour markets. After a first Erasmus+ project called MOSE-FIC on which UCAC was an active member, the CITAC project shifts the leadership to Africa: UCAC will lead the change and brings in three new public and private HEIs from Cameroon and the DRC. As European Quality Standards were chosen as the cornerstone, European experts will provide their experience and insights to the actions decided on from African realities. The activities will lean on the competence-based approach putting the student in the centre of the process (8 curricula reengineered - min. 6 partners of the industrial environment providing insights). Students (3000 directly involved) will benefit from innovative learning methods such as Problem Based Learning, flipped classrooms… Virtual mobility will be supported by the creation of common distance learning activities (200h of e-learning created). Teaching staff (50 concerned-half of them will benefit from mobility) will acquire new know-how in defining learning outcomes and the way to align assessment and course content with them. The governance of the HEIs will be modernised by new rules of continuous enhancement such as assessment of the learning activities by the stakeholders and quality reviews. The local economies will benefit from engineers educated on a strong foundation of scientific and technical skills, combined with personal development work, including engineering ethics and experiences of responsibility in a social context. Thus, these engineers will be able to become leaders for the society, with greater freedom and personal charisma. Finally, for cross-fertilization purposes, the consortium members create and animate a contact cell with all HEIs in the fields of engineering in Central Africa