Wider objective is to improve education quality assurance systems through development of efficient internal quality standards leading to better employability of students in Partner Countries Universities. The internal QA system will be based on analysis of needs and capacities in Kazakh and Ukrainian HEIs, experiences and best practices from the successful QA action line of the Bologna ProcessThus main activities of the project are as follows (1) to promote the creation of quality culture at various levels through motivation, trust, responsibility of students, institutional leadership, individual staff members; (2) to elaborate proposals for the design of programs for BSc and MSc with the involvement of all stakeholders; (3) to develop technologies of assessment quality of BSc&MSc programs; designed program should meet the objectives including learning outcomes; (4) to conduct training for the QA specialist&academic staff; (5) to improve affiliate network university-business-State through collaboration with the EU universities; (6) to enhance internal university information systems of quality evaluation; (7) to develop a corporate QA infrastructure based on ICT, on-line, mobile technologies.Expected results of EDUQAS project: I. Created QA units, developed set of standards, guidelines for internal quality assurance in higher education; II. Improved quality of activities (research, education, governance) on the basis of the study of procedures and processes of EU universities; III. Improved quality culture among students, academic staff, management and administration of the University; IV. Developed affiliate network university-business-State through cooperation of QA agencies, professors, researchers, students with EU universities; V. Enhanced internal university information systems of quality evaluation and corporate QA infrastructure.VI. Piloted internal QA policy, guidelines&procedures will serve as a basis for QA national standards by PC QA agencies.

The aim of the project is to contribute the modernization of higher education systems in Ukraine by introducing National Centre of Teaching Excellence for the promotion of European educational innovations.Specific project objectives are the following:1) to de-monopolize formal systems of university teachers’ professional development and certification in Ukraine by establishing of independent National Centre of Teaching Excellence and its 8 branches, as well as creating their network, focusing on enhancing the quality of university teaching;2) to introduce the professional university teachers’ certification programs based on European good practices and education innovations for ensuring teaching excellence;3) to develop and pilot a new teaching excellence curriculum, including courses syllabi, which are permeable with educational needs of Ukrainian academic community and resulting in professional certification of university teachers;4) to develop professional standards for university teachers and draft for regulating for teacher attestation.National Academic Council is to be formed. Benchmarking research on teaching excellence will be conducted, the report is published. Retraining of the academic and administrative staff (78) for NCTE will be conducted on special retraining program by the specialists from WrUT, UVSQ and TNU.8 NTCE branches will be established and well-equipped. Multilateral agreement will be signed.A curriculum will cover 4 modules on Innovative Teaching, Learning and Assessment, Academic Integrity for Excellent Teaching, Blended Learning Techniques for Teaching Excellence, Linking Research and Teaching in HE. Sample of courses syllabi and certification methodology will be piloted for 40 university teachers from Ukraine. MOOC in Teaching Excellence will be launched to improve dissemination effect.Proposals to legislation will be submitted to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to validate TE curriculum and certification.

This project aims the elaboration of the policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on enhancing the third mission of Ukrainian Universities and fostering best practices of cooperation between HEIs and communities based on the application of the relevant experiences of EU states (Italy, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic and Latvia). A set of activities is developed focusing on enhancing universities’ social role and boosting university-community engagement incorporating efficient models of interaction between the communities and universities developed to ensure social cohesion, resilience and sustainability.The project activities include the development of policy options on enhancing the third mission of universities in Ukraine based on actual research of approaches towards governance models of universities’ third missions; in-depth analysis of community and universities needs in Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Ukraine; capacity-building for Ukrainian HEIs staff through the development of professional exchange program focusing on such important aspects of the community-university cooperation as resilience, sustainability, inclusion, entrepreneurship and environment, public health, and social cohesion, development and piloting of concepts of university-community cooperation at Ukrainian partner HEIs and development a policy paper and roadmap on state policy on enhancing the cooperation between communities and universities.The main project results are: Guidelines for the Ministry of Education on University Third Mission; a research paper “Models of the Community-University Cooperation in Ukraine”, 3 workshops on research methodology, intra-consortium mobilities aiming to study and share the best practices in partner institutions, 3 roundtables and focus groups on the third mission of universities with MESU, Ministry of Regional Development of Ukraine, communities and other stakeholders; development and piloting of national models of uni

"SMART-PL is a 3-year project, focused on introducing a model of personalised learning, based on the virtual learning environment of Intellectual Tutoring ""Learning with No Limits"". Intellectual tutoring is a set of learning tools: SMART online platform for virtual personalised learning and formative student assessment; сo-working centre with equipment for organising hybrid learning, which increases the educational process's efficiency and gives both teachers and students more opportunities. ""Learning with No Limits"" means that all students are welcomed - regardless of age, personality, socioeconomic status, or educational needs, regardless of the opportunity to be present in the audience or not.The project is divided into 7 WPs which are linked to promoting the cooperation of partners to implement the European experience of personalised learning; improving educational programs of universities; increasing transparency and comprehensibility of education and assessment for students (including the results of non-formal education), reducing students’ anxiety as for their professional expertise and forming their confidence to achieve efficient results; to improve the quality of teaching materials; to facilitate students’ mobility, including in virtual mode, on a university/country scale, inter-university/country levels); to create extra opportunities to get higher education for people with disabilities and specific academic needs through inclusive education and the implemented model of personalised learning and hybrid technologies.The fundamental principle of the project is a personalised approach aimed at forming a highly qualified competitive specialist who can conduct innovative activities and has the skills of continuous professional development.The personalised approach is characterised by innovative teaching methods, designed to encourage collaboration between students and teachers, emphasising the central role of students in controlling their learning."

This project aims to build enabling structures to aggregate critical mass (integrating the resources of Academy of Sciences research institutes and the teaching and research capacities of universities) for PhD education in 5 regions of Ukraine. Specifically, the project will establish:1) Administrative mechanisms (MinEdu and gov't regulations, laws, Codes of Practice) that enable inter-HEI cooperation in PhD training, including inter-HEI payments of state funds for co-supervision and course work, guidelines for joint PhD program licensing and accreditation of programs with transfer credits.2) Five regional doctoral training hubs (inter-HEI doctoral schools) that offer transferrable skills courses (10-12 ECTS each), and training in subject-specific academic writing (8-10 ECTS) to prepare young researchers for international publication.3) Inter-HEI thematic clusters whose researchers focus on one of 5 subject areas: political science, education policy, finance, informatics, biochemistry. Cluster participants will develop and deliver subject-specific PhD-level courses, and jointly supervise PhD students, aiming to design and pilot joint PhD programs in their subject areas.Aggregation of critical mass will be enabled through creation of appropriate MinEdu and HEI-level regulatory frameworks that will be disseminated nationally to support implementation of the Bologna 3rd cycle in Ukraine.The five thematic clusters will facilitate the creation of joint programs between Ukrainian and EU-based HEIs, and will foster domestic aggegation of currently fragmented critical mass in research and supervision.The university-based doctoral schools will act as teaching hubs, and as administrative centers managing student trajectories (including recruitment, credit transfer, mobility) that will foster an attractive research environment that opens opportunities for international networking and publication.