About the Project

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