EU Based Course in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control
159173-ТЕМРUS-2009-DE-JPCR

Project Acronym: EUBCFEQC

National Joint Project. Priority – Curricula Reform

Project duration: January, 2010 – December, 2012

EU funding instrument: Interregional program European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument

Tempus grant amount: € 759 642

Target group: teachers and administrative staff HEIs, technical staff of specialised laboratories, graduates (masters)

Grant holder: University of Applied Sciences, Weihenstephan, Germany

Coordinator: Henning Willeke Contacts: phone: +49 9826 654228, e-mail: henning.willeke@t-online.de

Partnership:

• University of Applied Sciences, Weihenstephan, Germany
• University of Parma, Italy
• P&B – Consultores Associadoc, Moreira-Maia, Portugal
• Agricultural University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• Kharkiv State Zooveterinary Academy, Ukraine
• Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian University, Ukraine
• Kherson State Agrarian University, Ukraine
• Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine
• Institute of Pig Breeding named after O.V.Kvasnytskyy
• Ukrainian Corporation of Industrial Meat Production
• Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
• Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine

Project goals and objectives:

• To contribute to the reform process of Ukrainian Higher Education in the sphere of food sciences and its approximation to the current European standards.
• To create and implement EU Based Master Course in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control in four Ukrainian Universities.

Activities:

1. New curriculum & syllabi of the EU Based Master Course in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control (MCFEQC):

• creating the Academic Team to overview the existing EU & UA curricula & courses syllabi;
• carrying out the comparative analysis of EU & UA curricula & courses syllabi;
• summarizing Academic Team meeting in Kharkiv;
• publication of the Comparative Analytical Report;
• curricula development and syllabi elaboration;
• legalization/accreditation and publication of the elaborated curricula and courses syllabi;
• curricula and syllabi Presentation.

2. Teachers’ training and retraining:

• selection of teachers to be trained;
• special Language Training for selected teachers;
• upgrade of teaching facilities;
• 2 two-week Teachers’ Trainings in the EU Universities;
• experience Exchange Seminars;
• project Summer Schools.

3. Teaching materials in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control:

• studying the scope of teaching materials available at the EU Universities and in Ukraine;
• identifying the list of materials for teachers that is necessary to be adapted and elaborated;
• elaboration and adaptation of the necessary materials.

4. Establishment of 4 Regional Master Training Centers (RMTC) of Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control:

• providing premises for RMTC;
• creation of special laboratories in each RMTC;
• selection and retraining of the labs’ staff;
• creation of the RMTCs’ libraries.

5. UA students’ education at four Regional Master Training Centres:

• selection of the advanced students at UA participating universities;
• delivering the Master Course to the selected students;
• practical placement of UA students at the EU and UA enterprises;
• EU-UA Master Diplomas Defense;
• creation of the Alumni Association.

6. Dissemination:

• creation of the project web-site;
• issuing monthly Electronic Project Bulletin;
• student Job Fairs;
• project Public Events and Dissemination Activities;
• international Scientific Conference on practical EU and UA standards on teaching the
• MC in Foodstuff Expertise and Quality Control.

7. Sustainability:

• approval and publication of the elaborated curricula and courses syllabi;
• cooperation with the Universities’ environment;
• creation of the Alumni Association;
• usage of the specialised labs’ equipment.

8. Quality Control And Monitoring:

• day-to-day University Quality control and Monitoring;
• external Quality Control and Monitoring;
• inter-university quality monitoring.

9. Management of the project:

• creation of the Project Coordinating Group;
• project Coordinating Meeting;
• annual Meetings on the contractual issues in Brussels;
• elaboration of the project Progress and Final Reports.

Expected results:

1. New curriculum & syllabi of the EU Based Master Course in Foodstuff Expertise &
2. Quality Control (MCFEQC) starts from the project very beginning in January 2010.
3. Teachers’ training and retraining starts in September 2010.
4. Teaching materials in Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control will begin in September 2010.
5. Establishment of 4 Regional Master Training Centers (RMTC) on Foodstuff Expertise & Quality Control.
6. UA students’ education at four Regional Master Training Centres starts in April 2011.

Project coordinator(s) in Ukraine: Kharkiv State Zooveterinarv Academy

Responsible person: Stanislav Grymblat, Vice-rector, Department of International and Economic cooperation

Contacts: phone: + 38 057 6357522, e-mail: grant-ep@rambler.ru

Project web-site: www.foodstuff.in.ua, http://foodstuff.osenu.org.ua