145686-TEMPUS-1-2008-1-FR-TEMPUS-SMHES

Awareness raising, Interest development, Desire creation and Action stimulation on the Bologna Process expansion in Central Asian countries and Russia

Coordinator: University of Pierre Mendes France

Address: 1281 avenue Centrale, Domaine Universitaire, B.P. 47 Grenoble, FR

Phone: 33476827369

Fax: 33476827356

Contact: Professor, Director of Faculty of Human Sciences Lamboley Jean-Luc

E-mail: Jean-Luc.Lamboley@upmf-grenoble.fr

Web-site: www.tempus-aida.ru

Partners from Kyrgyzstan:
- Issykkul State University after K. Tynystanov
- Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyz republic
- Atakench
- STUDENT TRADE UNION AT ISU

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:
The project AIDA is aimed at development of the National action groups of Bologna Practitioners -Tetragons - in the Partner Countries (KZ, KG, UZ, RU). These action Groups will join together the four main groups of BP stakeholders - Academia, Market, Government, Students - to work out and implement the best strategy of Bologna Promotion in their home countries in accordance with their cultural specificity and in reference with successful European practices.

Bologna Process has stimulated development of global academic space in Europe and its extension further to Russian and central Asia. Thanks to Bologna, up to date, there are a number of achievements in academic sector in the Partner Countries (PC), however, often these results remain neglected on the societal level, which obviously decrease the effect of the Bologna intervention. Therefore collaboration of all groups of the BP stakeholders - academia, students, market, government - is necessary to ensure the desirable Bologna impact. Involvement of the PC employers to Bologna Partitioning, for example, will allow their better understanding of the reform of higher education and, and as a result will raise their capacity of understanding new BA/ MA qualifications and decrease their skepticism about LLL, e-learning and distance learning programmes. Obviously, involvement employers to the Bologna process will lead to solid and multiply beneficial university-enterprise links.

Involvement of students in Bologna Process will facilitate modernization of the system of HE in the PC through establishment of trust between the student and teacher's populations and via development of motivation to self-education, academic mobility and life-long-learning.

Close cooperation between the named stakeholders and governmental structures will guarantee institutional and national support to Bologna Reform and ensure high quality of the bologna related actions undertaken both on the academic and societal levels.

Considering all stated above, growing actuality of the ideas of the Bologna declaration sharpen necessity of formulation of the certain, nation-based and culturally determined strategies of cooperation on Bologna Promotion in states of Central Asia and Russia and of formation of the human resource - Action Groups of the Bologna Practitioners capable for realization of the relevant strategies.

The project AIDA will allow satisfying the stated needs:
1. Firstly, through development of the BP practitioner's human resources in Central Asia and Russia (culturally fluent, active, initiative professionals of BP promotion in the societies)
2. Secondly, through formation of consortiums (Tetragons) of BP practitioners out of four main BP stakeholders: Market, Government, Academia, Students; and development of 5-year strategies of their future collaboration
3. Thirdly, thorough creation of infrastructure for long-term effective societal intervention of these consortiums - Tetragons (equipping with technical and methodological tools National Tetragons' Offices in the Partner Countries)

Budget:
910 871 euro

Duration:
36 Month