Joint societal challenge driven circular economy energy education between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Moldova and Romania

ongoing

"In the EU-AGM project eight universities in East Neighboor Countries (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova) will collaborate with two universities in EU (Romania, Greece) towards modernisation of courses and programs in the energy sector, with emphasis upon circular economy towards energy sustainability. The collaboration is inspired by five earlier successful Erasmus+ CBHE projects. It will re-use both the framework and learning material developed from these projects while developing and implementing specific new courses and programs adapted for the local conditions in the partner countries. More specifically it will significantly enhance capacity building on an educator-to-educator basis towards a modernisation of energy curriculum in the partner countries. It will furthermore introduce an advanced system of peer review of the educational resources and a progression system based upon a numerical system of Intended Learning Outcomes descriptors of “Knowledge”, “Skills” and “Responsibility & Autoinomy” as per the European Qualification Framework 2017. The project will contribute towards a paradigm shift within ""global-but-local"" student-centred education in a digital and online learning environment. The EU-AGM project will allow collaborative creation of learning material to create/update programs and courses, which includes a baseline of Master programs, expert courses, academic courses, and short professional courses, with more than 500 expected students to be trained at the end of the project in all the partner countries. Furthermore, 8 remote labs will be implemented, enabling real experimental experience to students in remote areas, and 8 entrepreneurial challenges will be run in collaboration with local industries, thus contributing to the employability of young professionals. A specific earlier developed Quality Improvement Process will be enhanced with the progression ILO system and used towards all the educational resources developed."