ESPAQ
Funding programme: TEMPUS-Structural measures- Governance Reform
Project reference: 544261-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-BE-TEMPUS-SMGR
Principal investigator: Simone Betti
Role UniMC: Coordinator
Consortium: The National Union of Students in Europe (BE), Pedagogical University Innsbruck (AT), Spiru Haret University (RO), National Union of Students Scotland (UK), Armenian State University of Economics (Armenia), Armenian State Pedagogical University (Armenia), Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts (Armenia), State Engineering University of Armenia, Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction (Armenia), Armenian National Students’ Association (Armenia), National Center for Professional Education QA Foundation (Armenia), Ministry of Education and Science (Armenia)
Runtime: from 01.12.2013 to 30.11.2016
Short description: The overall objective of ESPAQ project is to strengthen the quality assurance (QA) processes and practices in the Armenian higher education by ensuring the involvement of all the stakeholders, especially the students – the key beneficiaries. The project activities will cover these core aspects:
- Empower students to participate in QA on the level of designing processes and implementing procedures;
- Foster Quality Culture at students’ and staff level in the HEIs, through building understanding and insight about the process of change and the key drivers that make for successful change in practice;
- Create a sustainable structure on the national level to improve students’ participation in quality assurance, encourage peer learning and better visibility of their actions to the wider academic community;
- To promote the project and its outcomes and to ensure its sustainability and wide acceptance among all the stakeholders (also outside Armenia, i.e. in the Neighbouring countries).
Total cost: € 997.891,63
EU contribution: € 898.102,46
EU contribution to UniMC: € 96.615,86