The launch of a huge EuroAsian education project

Modernisation of Higher Education in Central Asia through new Technologies (HiEdTec)

Erasmus+ Key Action 2 "Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education"

The European Commission has signed the contract of a new project on the modernization of education in 15 universities from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and in 4 European universities from Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal and Luxembourg.
Italy is represented in the project consortium by the University of Pavia (in particular, by the Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering).
The initiator of the project and project coordinator is the University of Ruse – a Bulgarian higher education institution with a 20 year long experience in the management of similar large scale projects.
The main project aim is to modernise the higher education system in Central Asia through the use of new technologies.
The University of Ruse will share both its Programme for Adapting the Educational System to the Digital Generation through Active Implementation of ICT-based Innovative Education Technologies and its draft of the National Programme for Digital Transformation of Education within the consortium.
The Handbook of Innovative Educational Technologies of the University of Ruse will be adapted to fit the purposes of the project and will be translated into Russian and English. An interactive multimedia version of this handbook, which will be available to all interested parties, will be published on the Internet.
A Centre for Innovative Educational Technologies will be created in each of the Central Asian partner universities. These centres will follow the model of the Centre for Innovative Educational Technologies of the University of Ruse. Another project output will be the creation of study halls of the future which will be equipped in a similar fashion as the study halls of the University of Ruse that are tailored to meet the needs of digital learners.
By signing the project contract the European Commission once again showed that the digital transformation of education is one of the key priorities of the European Commission – a fact that Mariya Gabriel, the Commissioner for Digitalization, has repeatedly stressed in her speeches and interviews.

Partners

19 universities from BULGARIA, ITALY, LUXEMBOURG, PORTUGAL, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN, TURKMENISTAN, UZBEKISTAN and 5 Ministries of Education of the CENTRAL ASIAN countries

1. BULGARIA
University of Ruse
2. ITALY
University of Pavia
3. LUXEMBOURG
University of Luxembourg
4. PORTUGAL
Coimbra University
5. KAZAKHSTAN
Almaty Technological University
Innovative University of Eurasia
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Ministry of Education and Science
6. KYRGYZSTAN
Ala-Too International University
Issyk-Kul State University named after K. Tynystanov
Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov
Ministry of Education and Science
7. TAJIKISTAN
Khorog State University named after M. Nazarshoev
Tajik Technical University named after Academician M. Osimi
Technological University of Tajikistan
Ministry of Education and Science
8. TURKMENISTAN
International University for the Humanities and Development
Oguz Han Engineering and Technology University of Turkmenistan
State Power Engineering Institute of Turkmenistan
Ministry of Education
9. UZBEKISTAN
Andijan Machine-Building Institute
Tashkent State University of Economics
Tashkent University of Information Technology
Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education

Here follows a map of the Central Asian project partners.