Capacity building on Policy and practices of Doctoral Education
Work Package #1
Capacity building on Policy and practices of Doctoral Education
WP1 is targeted at the Capacity building on Policy and practices of Doctoral Education and will set out sound bases for the successive WPs. This target will firstly be achieved trough development of capacity building training package on EU approaches and policy of doctoral, regulatory framework by the EU partners: during the workshops the agenda on DE, Salzburg Pprinciples and recommendations, as well as EU best practices will be presented. The role of all EU partners is significant here, as they will be actively involved in the capacity building activities, will develop the training pachages based on the EU best practices and deliver the workshops.
The AM parntners will provide the Synopsys to EU partners on the national developments and challanges, which will also be utalized in the development of capacity building trainings and adapting to national peculiarities.
The workshop will take place in Porto, where 53 staff will be trained from AM HEIs, SRIs, MESA. The partners will start the procurement and purchase of the equipment for the 5 Doctoral Schools (training rooms/PHD student offices) to be established in frames of the project.
The WP will start with the Kick off meeting, where Management methodology and structure will be peresented, the GB and Project Management team will be formed and QA mechanismsm will be presented by WP5 leader.
Purchased equipment is inventoried at HEIs/SRIs and available for the use of staff and doctoral students
Development of Policy, Legal Framework for Doctoral Education
Work Package #2
Development of Policy, Legal Framework for Doctoral Education
The second WP is aimed at developing policy and legal framework for new doctoral education. Two major national documents will be developed throughout M6Y1-M11Y1, the (i) National Policy for Development of Doctoral Education in Armenia (NPD), (ii) National Framework for Doctoral Studies and Award of National Diploma of Doctor (NFDS). The developed core national documents will be reviewed by the consortium members and the external expert during the workshop in EU partner institution (Lyon) in M12Y1. Based on the feedback received during the workshop, the national regulatory framework will be revised and be available for public consultations in Armenia (though e-draft online platform and HEIs/SRIs institutional workshops). The public consultations will be targeted to various external stakeholders, including national authorities, HEIs/SRIs outside of the project consortium, education experts, scientific community, industry representatives, as well as NGOs and associations working with disadvantaged groups.
Based on the provided feedback, the documents will be revised and presented to the MESA for confirming and piloting. The first year will be devoted to the national policy and regulation development and will be concluded with ratification for pilot.
Development of Institutional Regulatory Framework
Work Package #3
Development of Institutional Regulatory Framework
The WP3 project is aimed at development or revision of institutional policies, regulations and procedures in line with the redesigned legal framework. The organizational frameworks to support doctoral education and ensure open and inclusive research environments, transparent rules and procedures, as well as support for the professional development of both supervisors and doctoral candidates will be designed/revised. In particular, the Online Institutional Handbook for Doctoral Education will be developed and adapted by each participating HEI and SRI from Armenia. The Handbook will outline the entry requirements, clear policies and procedures, guidelines on admission, course duration, graduation, organization of teaching, research, supervision and defense, as well as cooperation with the industry, joint and double degree, mobility arrangements, evaluation, preparation of doctoral theses, roles and responsibilities, reporting, examination, assessment etc. The ratification of the institutional regulations and the availability of the Online Institutional HANDBOOK for Doctoral Education in project web site and in the web sites of participating institutions is considered as the major outcome and indicator of progress.
Piloting Doctoral education Policy, legal and institutional framework
The pilot implementation of the developed national and institutional regulatory framework will be launched from the M6Y2 (the middle of the project): each institution will be working on one Doctoral school establishment and operationalization (with assigned AM and EU partners). To reduce the uncertainty and ensure project sustainability, the project team has agreed on the establishment of DS in advance with the consortium members and clarified the directions. The division was done based on the previous experience, available educational content (to be revised) and human resources (scientific and academic), as well as infrastructure.
The established DS armed with institutional procedures will launch the promotion and admit the 1st student cohort in M5Y3.
The WP will be concluded with the exchange on results of pilot implementation of the developed policy, legal and organizational framework of DE in Vilnius (M6Y3). Based on the feedback collected the national regulative framework and the institutional Handbook with procedures will be updated and finalized (M7Y3, M8Y3) and presented as Major delivarables. Pilot reports of newly established 5 Doctoral Schools will also serve as the major delivarable of the WP.
Dissemination and exploitation
5.1. Elaboration project dissemination & exploitation strategy (DES)
5.2. Creation and regular update of project Website
5.3. Elaboration of dissemination materials, organization of media coverage and events to present/discuss the results of project
5.4. Organization of project final dissemination conference in Ulaanbaatar
Project quality monitoring and assurance
6.1. Project Quality Monitoring and Assurance Strategy (MQAS)
6.2. MQAS monitoring and WP reports
6.3. Reports of project intermediate and final evaluation carried out by external evaluator
6.4. Reports of evaluation of the produced deliverables by project external
Project management
7.1. Project day-to-day, financial and overall management
7.2. Purchase of equipment for Mongolian higher education institutions
7.3. Organization of coordination meetings and reporting
7.4. Organization of monitoring visits, participation to the country meetings and reporting
7.5. Organization of project intermediate and final Fact-finding (Audit)
7.6. Elaboration of project progress and final reports