Enhancing Competences of Sustainable Waste Management in Russian and Kazakh HEIs - EduEnvi

The objectives of the project:  
- The target group will adopt the latest research, best practices and latest technology of sustainable waste management in Europe
- The academic staff will be able to combine industry cooperation into competence definitions of new curricula as well as the latest curriculum building approaches
- The target group will be able to integrate entrepreneurship and innovation methods into learning modules
- The target group will be able to choose the pedagogically best suited e-learning tools for each learning purpose eg collaborative knowledge building, brainstorming, feedback collection, knowledge testing.  
- Eight online learning modules will be built on sustainable waste management (each university will build one or two modules of 6-9 credits)

The project modernises and internationalises higher education in environmental protection in Kazakhstan and Russia. This will be achieved by building the capacity of local academic staff (main target group of the project) in the participating partner universities in 1) sustainable waste management and 2) the latest European pedagogical approaches.  Additionally, eight online learning modules will be built on sustainable waste management to benefit the secondary target group, students, companies and local/regional authorities.

The competence building of the academic staff in the field of sustainable waste management will enable modernisation of existing curricula and building of new educational programmes in sustainable waste management, for which new professional standards were recently introduced in Russia and no educational standards exist in Kazakhstan.

The new online learning modules will offer students flexible and inclusive learning paths which have been insufficiently available in both partner countries. Introduction of innovation methods and industry-university cooperation will provide students with relevant skills and knowledge needed in working life.

Participants: TAMK is the coordinator of the project and an expert in e-learning. Partners from Russian are ITMO University, Ural Federal University and University of Tyumen. Partners from  Kazakhstan are Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Shokan Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University, South Kazakhstan State University and the Ministry of Education and Science. European partners are Universidad de Valladolid from Spain and UCL University College from Denmark.