NURSLING

NATIONAL QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORKS: GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS

Project ID: 561742-EPP-1-2015-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (click here to access the Project Results and Deliverables)

Project eligibility period: 15/10/2015 to 14/10/2018 (extended till 14/04/2019)
Grant agreement signed: 22/12/2015
Partnership agreement signed: 17/06/2016 
The Project has finished: 14/04/2019

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• Consultations for the Partnership Agreement;
• Responsibilities for the Workpackages;
• Project management structure;
• Visits to Uzbek partner institutions;
• Feasibility study.

Coordination meeting and Training on NQF issues. 

The participants of the training course should arrive on July 10, 2016 and depart on July 23, 2016. The EU partners who do not participate in the training course should arrive on July 17 and depart on July 21.  

• Training programme successfully executed;
• Further activities planned;
• Good social programme.

 Project Coordinator met with the National Coordinator, NEO and the Ministry, discussing the progress and the Monitoring report of July 2016.

• Statutes of the National Committe on the NQF prepared by the Center and submitted for official approval;
• First reaction on the Monitoring report sent back to the Agency.

Coordination meeting and training on IT issues.

Arrival: March 12, 2017; departure: March 19, 2017.

• NQF database specifications defined
• Project quality assessed 
• Outline of the NQF Guidelines presented 

• Work loads readjusted to safegueard against delivery failures
• Midterm report submitted, without request for payment (the project only used 40% of the first transfer instead of 70% that justify a second transfer)

Coordination meeting and training on NQF and QA issues.

Schedule:
Arrival: September 10, 2017; departure: September 16, 2017, working days in Tashkent: September 11; train to Samarkand: evening of September 11; working days in Samarkand: September 12 - September 15; train to Tashkent: evening of September 15.

• Working teams reported good progress on the Manual on NQF in Uzbekistan,
• and on the Database development (PC interface ready, web interface developed).
• Prelimary draft of the Manual to be ready by December 2017, to be printed and circulated. Final draft to be delivered in February 2018.

Coordination meeting and training on Sectorial QF in Informatics and QA.

Arrival: April 29, departure: May 5; Working days in Patras: April 30 - May 4, 2018

• Draft products (NQF guidelines and Sectorial QF) reviewed; to be finalized ASAP
• DB status reviewed
• Auto-evaluation exercise
• Training on NQF and quality issues

Coordination meeting and training/summer school

Arrival: August 18, Departure: September 2; Working days in Patras: August 19 - September 1, 2018

• EU participants informed on changes in Uzbek HE system
• Uzbek participants  lectured on aspects of Bologna process
  • Progress of workpackages
• Decision on extension request

• Discussion of the final products at the project meeting
• Presentation of the project products to the academic community
• Arrangements for preparation of the final report