Implementation of Quality Policies and Tools at Institutional Level (UNIQTOOL)
Project number:
159161-TEMPUS-2009-SE-SMGR.
Project duration:
from January 2010 to January 2013.
Tempus program grant amount:
€ 1,363,780.
Target group:
- academic staff,
- students,
- planning department staff,
- alumni.
Grant holder:
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kingdom of Sweden.
Project consortium:
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kingdom of Sweden;
- Swedish Council for Higher Education, Kingdom of Sweden;
- Politecnico di Torino, Italian Republic;
- Technical University of Catalonia, Kingdom of Spain;
- Tallinn University of Technology, Republic of Estonia;
- Ferghana Polytechnic Institute, Republic of Uzbekistan;
- Tashkent University of Information Technologies, Republic of Uzbekistan;
- National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek, Republic of Uzbekistan;
- Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Republic of Uzbekistan;
- National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Ukraine;
- National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute", Ukraine;
- Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry, Ukraine;
- Ministry of Education and Science, Ukraine.
Project goals and objectives:
- accelerate the implementation of modern quality assurance tools and policies at the university level in Ukraine and Uzbekistan that are compliant with ENQA standards;
- establish academic cooperation between partner countries in providing access to modern, high-quality educational programs.
Project activity areas:
- strengthening the capacity of universities and authorities in Ukraine and Uzbekistan to apply modern quality assurance policies and tools;
- engaging students in quality improvement activities;
- developing regulatory documents and implementing quality control tools across various levels of education and research;
- dissemination of project results;
- measures to ensure sustainable project development;
- quality control and monitoring;
- project management.
Achieved results:
1. Recommendations for involving students in quality assurance processes were developed.
2. Operating procedures and regulatory documents for quality assurance were developed at partner universities.
3. Recommendations for applying quality assurance policies and tools in partner universities were developed.