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 During
February 17-19, 2005, at Poiana
Brasov, Romania,
the kick off meeting of the Erasmus Thematic Network project took place.
On behalf of the European Commission the meeting was attended by Mr. Ettore Deodato - Director of the Erasmus Thematic Network
programme, Mrs. Marylin Fiaschi - European Commission, Project officer
Erasmus Thematic Networks, and Mrs. Katerina Galanaki- Spiliotopoulos, EC expert on Tuning
methodology and tools, Head of International Relations Athens University
of Economics and Business.
The 61 representatives of 47 partner countries had the opportunity
to share their experience in the project field and plan for the future
activities. The main achievements of the meeting were:
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training
on Tuning methodology;
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training
on project management and reporting;
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establishment
of workgroups composition and activity plans.
The
EUI-Net official website
The internet
domain www.eui-net.org has been
acquired and the official website of the Network is now operational at
this address.
New member within the executive team from Brasov
 The EUI-Net executive team includes now a new
member, Mrs. Marcela Rodica LUCA, associate professor at University
Transilvania of Brasov, head of the Psychology
Department. Her main assignment
within the project is to coordinate the Tuning research, i.e. for
defining and updating generic and specific competences in the subjects
relevant to the industrial sector. According to the project plan, the
outcome of this research work will be published in the book entitled:
"Tuning Industrial Educational Structures in
Europe
" – part. I. Mrs. Luca’s topics of research and teaching are:
personality psychology, work and organizational psychology, career
counselling, faculty development. International experience: participation
in several Tempus projects (1996-2001), coordination of Tempus - TRUST
project in the 2nd and 3rd year (1998, 1999), since 2003 - academic
exchanges in the frame of Socrates Erasmus bilateral agreements with
several European universities. Professional experience: 14 years of
teaching in higher education, 18 years of industrial psychology work.
Tuning based research has
started
The consortium of the EUI-Net
encompasses members belonging to industrial and educational field.
Although Tuning research are activities included in SIG1 and SIG2, all
members are invited to participate in the research aimed to establish a
competency profile for engineering studies for the first and second
cycle. The starting point of the research is the Tuning project which
established already competency profiles for a number of areas: business,
chemistry, education sciences, geology, history, mathematics, and
physics.
EUI-Net covers
29 countries and aims to extend the research for the subjects of
relevance for the industrial
sectors. Thus, the initial Tuning research scope will be extended,
and a new dimension will be added. In this respect, questionnaires for
generic and specific competencies in engineering will be elaborated and
distributed to all network members till the end of September.
As is stated in the project,
the research outcomes will be used as reference point for curriculum
design and improvement in the courses relevant to industry. [more]
Dissemination activities
Participation at the International
Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Education - ICIE 2005. [more]
Participation at the International Conference on Sustainable
Energy 2005. [more]
For more information:
Assoc. Prof. Simona LACHE, Ph.D
Assoc. Prof. Marcela LUCA, Ph.D.
Prof. Ioan Calin ROSCA, Ph.D
Address:
Univesity Transilvania of Brasov
29 B-dul Eroilor
500036 Brasov, Romania
Tel./fax: + 40 268 474761
email: slache@unitbv.ro
www.eui-net.org
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