PROJECT RESULTS
The results of the planned activities include:
- Comprehensive national reports on the recognition and quality assurance of SCHE programs and degrees, on the interface between SCHE institutions and industry and on the contribution of SCHE to life-long and life-wide learning systems.
- Three international Conferences/Round Tables in each of the three participating scheduled as follows:
- May, 2009, International University College, Dobrich/Albena, Bulgaria, “Recognition and Quality Assurance of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs”;
- Fall/Winter, 2009, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA, “Strategic Approaches to Addressing Economic and Social Development”;
- May, 2010, LEIDO: National Innovation and Expertise Center for Lifelong Learning, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, “Short-Cycle Higher Education and Lifelong Learning Systems”.
- Comparative analyses of best practices and strategic approaches in result of the national reports and the international conferences.
- A feasibility study on the development of dual/joint SCHE degrees in business and tourism and hospitality management amongst participating institutions. The feasibility study will be finalized in a June 2010 Study Visit of representatives of IUC to Toledo where also a Pilot Plan for a SCHE business-related program in tourism and hospitality management on the basis of the US experience will be developed.
