SALEIE - WP5 – POLICY CURRENT STAGE CESME TURKEY MAY 2014 Prof. Dr. Eng. Dorian Cojocaru University of Craiova, Romania CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

WP5 - POLICY The objective of this work package is to bring together policy administrators from institutions across Europe to review current practices and to identify examples of best practice; to build a common understanding of governance and policy implications on the strategic changes associated with the project; and create a centre for excellence in the policy area. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

The methodology will be to commence with an audit of current practices. The project partners will be used as the route to obtaining responses to these surveys from within their own institutions and their networks. The objective will be to achieve as broad a coverage of European higher education institutional responses as can be achieved. The results of the surveys were collated and anlysed. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Activities in this work package will include: - A survey of administrative practices across Europe in respect of the design, development, delivery, assessment and review of academic programmes. - Work package meetings in partner institutions - The identification of examples of BEST PRACTICE (HERE WE ARE !!!). CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

WP 5.1 Survey of Administrative Policies and Practices in EIE. WP 5.2 Best Practice Exemplars in administrative policy. (HERE WE ARE NOW !!). WP 5.3 Translation of best practice case studies. WP 5.4 Website Support Resources. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Delivrable: WP5.1 - Survey of Administrative Policies and Practices in EIE - Survey questionnaire - Month 6 – English. WP5.2 - Best Practice Exemplars in administrative policy - Written up case studies of best practice - Month 16 (JANUARY 2014 !!!) – English. WP5.3 - Translation of best practice case studies - Month 24 – English, French, Slovakian, Slovenian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Italian, German as a minimum. WP5.4 - Website Support Resources - Update to the website - Month 33. Starting month: OCTOBER CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

From engineering poit of view: DATA ACQUISITION: WP5.1 – MARCH DATA PROCESSING: WP5.2 – JANUARY 2014 (?!), WP5.3 – SEPTEMBER 2014, WP5.4 – JANUARY CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

First SALEIE meeting: YORK UK December Only few partners participated directly to the meeting dedicated to WP5, - Individual discussion regarding the organization of the WP5 activities. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

After meeting: - Intense internet dialogue between WP5 leader and main partners for WP5, - Questionnaire design (many versions). CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Second SALEIE meeting: Bordeaux F April Report regarding WP5 for SALEIE managers and for WP leaders - Asking help for a future survey analyse question by question CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Third SALEIE meeting: CHANIA GR MAY An important number of partners participated directly to the meeting dedicated to WP5, -A new form for the WP5 questionnaire. -Two articles regarding SALEIE WP5 were presented to 24th Annual Conference of European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (one published in the proceedings and IEEE xplore indexed). CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Cojocaru, D., Popescu, D, Tănasie, R.T, 2013, Policies for Higher Education Institutions in Electrical and Information Engineering, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, ISBN , p , May 2013, Chania, Crete, Greece, IEEE xplore, Digital Object Identifier: /EAEEIE , INSPEC Accession Number: Cojocaru, D., 2013, Electrical and Software Engineering Program vs. Demands of the Educational Market - A Study Case Romania, 24th Annual Conference of European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, May 2013, Chania, Crete, Greece, SALEIE Workshop. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

After Chania meeting: - Final form of the WP5 questionnaire, - On-line SurveyMonkey questionnaire (Thank You Laura Grindei Cluj Napoca RO), - Collecting data, - Data analyzing: an article sent and accepted to EDUCON2014 – IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, 3-5 April 2014, Istanbul, Turkey. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Dorian Cojocaru, Dorin Popescu, Marian Poboroniuc, Tony Ward, Educational Policies in European Engineering Higher Education System - Implementation of a survey, EDUCON2014 – IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, 3-5 April 2014, Istanbul, Turkey. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

Fourth SALEIE meeting: IASI RO DEC An important number of partners participated directly to the meeting dedicated to WP5, -The answers were analyzed question by question, -For each question, taking into consideration the answers received, an attempt to formulate a conclusion was performed, -For each conclusion, a degree of trust was evaluated, -Where was the case, corrections where formulated. CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Fifth SALEIE meeting: Malta Three participants from Iasi meeting: Dorian, Antoanela and Ernest. - The other colleagues from: Poland (Piotr), Turkey (Bahar), Belgium (Joseph), Slovenia (Marian), Romania (Dorin, Gheorghe), Norway (Carsten), Greece (Giorgios), UK (Donna, Tony), France (Olivier). - Tony made a useful proposal regarding the students’ exchange policy: to develop a template description of the background agreement starting from an IEEE standard.

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW We received useful information regarding doctoral studies policies (Thank You Michael!): - Guiding Principles for German Doctorate in Engineering and Informatics 4ING. - A Sectorial Qualifications Framework for Engineers and Computer Scientists. - The different Engineering PhDs in Europe. Debate regarding: - The procedure for obtaining the final report regarding best practice examples. - How to measure the results. - The structure of the report.

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Decission to split the task concerning the report for best practice examples in three parts corresponding to the following countries: - Hard core of EU, - New members from Central and Eastern Europe, - Like UK teaching system (UK, Ireland and Malta). The fourth part was add after the meeting: - Non EU members

- The problem of spliting the data base into parts. - We discussed the principle for the analyse in order to support an uniform procedure for the three groups. - Two domains of interest: Questions 6-28/33-34/36-40/45-46/ Programmes/Modules Questions 29-32/35/41-44/47-49/ Students CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW - Three groups: - UK/IE/MT: Ernest+Tony - New members: Dorian (bachelor), Antonela + Marian + Piotr, (Master), Bahar (doctoral). - Hard core EU: Joseph + Giorgos (bachelor), Carsten (master), Olivier (doctoral).

Proposal for the report’s structure: - Group - Categories: - Programmes - Creation - Accreditation - Interoperability - Relevance and inclusion - Assesment - Ranking CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Proposal for the report’s structure: - Students - Exchange - Special needs - Commitment - Involvement

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW After the meeting, we received from Tony Ward useful suggestions and detail about each item: Areas of policy that are important for our project: 1. Programme creation 2. Programme change 3. Partnerships with other academic institutions 4. Student placements 5. Engagement with industry

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Finally we decide togheter (Thank You Ernest!): - No measurments, no verdicts, no “best example” - Yes for representative examples, yes for study cases - Use your own knowleadge, not only the answers from questionnaire. We had problems in spliting the data base – finaly solved (Thank You Laura and Tony!).

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW After eliminating false answers, the data base with answers for the WP5 questionnaire contains: Bechelor -11 answers from EAST (Split, Ruse, Maribor, Cluj, Kosice, Arad, Iasi, Bratislava, Craiova), 9 answers from HC (Vigo, Zaragoza, DTU, Crete, Mainz, Bordeaux, Telemark, Bergen), 3 answers from LUK (Limerick, York, Malta), 1 answer from OTHER (Izmir). Master - 6 answers from EAST (Cracow, Split, Ruse, Bratislava, Craiova), 5 answers from HC (Porto, Mainz, Bordeaux, Vorarlberg, Telemark), 1 answer from LUK (Limerick), 4 answers from OTHER (Turkey).

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Doctoral 14 answers from EAST (Split, Ruse, Lublin, Kosice), 1 answer from HC (Vigo), 1 answer from LUK (Limerick), 2 answers from OTHER (Turkey). LLP 1 answer from EAST (Split), 4 answers from HC (Porto, Bordeaux, Toulouse, German Workforce. Before this meeting I received reports from Bachar Karaoglan, Gheorghe Livint, Ernest Cachia, Antoanela Naaji and Carsten Hhelgesen. I elaborate my self a study case (Bachelor in Romania) that I sent to the pariticipants to WP5 in Malta – to use it like an example.

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CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Conclusion and Cesme workshop agenda: - Best Practice Exemplars in administrative policy - Written up case studies of best practice - Month 16 (JANUARY 2014 !!!) – English. - WP5.3 - Translation of best practice case studies - Month 24 (SEPTEMBER) – English, French, Slovakian, Slovenian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Italian, German as a minimum. We are late!!!

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW Conclusion and Cesme workshop agenda: - Confirmation and redistribution of task - Three/Four groups: - UK/IE/MT: Ernest+Tony - New members: Dorian (bachelor), Antonela + Marian + Piotr, (Master), Bahar (doctoral). - Hard core EU: Joseph + Giorgos (bachelor), Carsten (master), Olivier (doctoral).

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW

THANK YOU !! CESME WP5 - POLICY Funded by the European Union LifeLong Learning Programme SALEIE: Project No LLP UK-ERASMUS-ENW