Raport

privind realizarea activității “Inițiativa educațională în cadrul proiectului Energie și Biomasă în Moldova.” Descrierea acțiunilor realizate în perioada mai-decembrie 2015.

Conform cerințelor Contractului cu privire la realizarea prevederilor Proiectului UNDP ”Înțelegerea și acceptarea de comunitate a energiei din biomasă promovate prin programul educațional școlar”, în perioada de referință Institutul de Formare Continuă a realizat următoarele activități:

1.A fost elaborat Programul de lucru privind realizarea Componentei Educaționale a proiectului nominalizat “Conceperea și desfășurarea unei inițiative educaționale în domeniul surselor de energie regenerabilă”

2.În scopul selectării elevilor pentru tabăra de vară ”Energel-2015”, în luna mai, în 18 instituții de învățământ preuniversitar din localitățile raioanelor Căușeni, Cahul, Cimișlia, Leova, Taraclia și UTA Găgăuzia a fost realizat concursul între elevi pentru obținerea biletelor de odihnă.

3.Ca rezultat, 36 de elevi, învingători ai concursului, au obținut bilete de odihnă pentru perioada 06 -16 iunie 2015 în tabăra de vară specializată Eco-energetică „Cușmărica” sat. Răculești, raionul Criuleni.

4.Pe data de 24 septembrie 2015, în incinta Institutului de Formare Continuă, a avut loc sesiunea de formare profesională în cadrul Proiectului UNDP ”Energie și Biomasă în Moldova”. La sesiunea organizatorică au participat conducătorii și cadrele didactice din 18 instituții de învățământ preuniversitar (total 36 persoane) din raioanele nominalizate mai sus, care, pe parcursul anului de studii 2015 – 2016, vor asigura realizarea componentei educaționale a Proiectului dedicată energiei renovabile.

5.Pentru asigurarea Componentei Educaționale a Proiectului dat instituțiile de învățământ au fost dotate cu echipament multimedia și au primit câte un set de materiale care vor servi drept suport didactic la orele opționale: Educația ecologică, Omul și mediul ambiant,Educația pentru dezvoltarea comunității, Protecția mediului înconjurător; la secțiile cercurilor ecologice și a tinerilor naturaliști, precum și în cadrul activităților extracurriculare și extrașcolare.

6.De asemenea, celor 18 instituții de învățământ, participante la Proiect, în care profesează 631 cadre didactice și își fac studiile 6586 elevi, inclusiv 1286 elevi în clasele 7 – 8, le-au fost repartizate 450 manuale “Surse de energie regenerabilă”,72 Ghiduri ale profesorului, și 360 broșuri pentru elevi.

7.Cu scopul dezvoltării competențelor teoretice și a abilităților practice a elevilor în domeniul schimbării climei, folosirii surselor renovabile de energie pentru necesitățile locale, inițierii populației în domeniul folosirii eficiente a energiei și aplicării modelelor conservării ei a fost elaborat Regulamentul concursului proiectelor școlare realizate în cadrul Proiectului UNDP „Energie și Biomasă în Moldova” pentru anul de studii 2015 – 2016.

8.În perioada septembrie – decembrie 2015, în conformitate cu prevederile Planului Webinarelor, aprobat la sesiunea din 24 septembrie, au fost organizate și realizate trei videoconferințe în cadrul cărora:

a) La data de 23. 10.2015, elevii L.T. ”Helendarschi” și gimnaziului Sofievca, raionul Taraclia, și-au prezentat programele conform temei ”Potențialul de energie regenerabilă în Moldova și protecția mediului ambiant”.

b) La data de 27.11.2015, elevii gimnaziului Albota de Jos, raionul Taraclia; L.T. “M. Eminescu” or. Leova și L.T. “Ioan Vodă” or. Cahul, au prezentat temele pentru acasă sub genericul “Energia Hidraulică. Surse de energie regenerabilă și neregenerabilă.”

c) La data de 18.12.2015, elevii L.T. Tvardița, gimnaziului Budei și gimnaziului Taraclia, și-au prezentat programele consacrate temei “Energia solară și eficiența energetică”.

De menționat, că programele prezentate au fost alcătuite după scenarii bine gândite, trezind un deosebit interes la elevii din instituțiile de învățământ , participante la Proiect, care au urmărit videoconferințele date. Drept bază pentru pregătirea programelor au servit ample informații despre sursele de energie pe planeta Pământ, despre avantajele și dezavantajele lor, despre prioritățile energiei regenerabile față de alte surse de energie. Practic, toate echipele de elevi , pregătindu-și programele, au utilizat exemple concrete privind utilizarea surelor de energie în localitățile în care locuiesc. Dând dovadă de creativitate și ingeniozitate la desfășurarea conținuturilor temelor alese, elevii au confecționat diferite machete ca: ”Orașul în care locuiesc”, ”Gospodărie țărănească în care sunt folosite ca sursă de energie reziduurile animalelor domestice și a cabalinilor” (L.T.”M. Eminescu” or. Leova); ”Colectorul solar pentru încălzirea apei în apartamente la bloc și case de locuit la sol” (gimnaziul Budei); ”Roata Hidraulică” (L.T. ”Ioan Vodă“ și gimnaziul Albota de Jos); ”Ventilatorul solar” (L.T. Tvardița) ș.a.

Menționăm, de asemenea, că elemente importante ale programelor prezentate au fost: dansurile, cântecele, secvențele de film, poeziile compuse de elevi, consacrate importanței surselor de energie regenerabile.

Coordonator de proiect:

Simion Caisîn 28.12.2015

DICSIM Project sumaries

Developing the ICT capable schools in Moldova

Project duration (with starting and ending dates)

2 years (01/09/2007 - 31/08/2009)

Project partners (with contacts details of contact persons in the Partner country/ies and the EU)

ES, Alicante - Universidad de Alicante, Roberto Escarré, r.escarre@ua.es

MD, Chisinau – The State Institute of Continuing Education, Simion Caisin, caisin@iic.md

PT, Lisbon - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Vitor Teodoro, vdt@fct.unl.pt

SE, Stockholm - Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Göran Karlsson, karlsson@mech.kth.

MD, Chisinau - Pedagogical State University 'Ion Creanga', Nicolae Balmus, balmouche@netcourrier.com

MD, Balti - Balti State University 'Aleco Russo', Valeriu Cabac, valeriu.cabac@gmail.com

MD, Chisinau - Tiraspol State University, Igor Postolachi, ipostolaki@mail.md

Project budget (with an indication of budget co-funded)

Project budget is 262,800.00 euro out of which 13,200.00 euro are co-financed

Objectives

• To develop training courses for effective use of ICT in education and their implementation for in-service teacher training in accordance with European e-Learning Strategy and e-Bologna action;
• To create a network of ICT promoters covering all regions of Moldova to exchange teaching experiences in general and ICT skills in particular;
• To train cca 1000 school teachers and headmasters on integration of ICT in education so that about 40 schools should become ICT capable.

Outcomes

1. THE SURVEY OF ICT CAPABILITY OF EDUCATION PREUNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONS
2. TRAINING THE TRAINERS
3. PREPARATION OF TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES FOR TRAINING COURSES
4. ELABORATION OF TRAINING MATERIALS
5. TRAINING HEADMASTERS AND DECISION MAKERS FOR TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS IN ICT CAPABLE
6. TRAINING COURSES FOR TARGET GROUP
7. DISSEMINATION
8. SUSTAINABILITY
9. QUALITY CONTROL AND MONITORING
10. MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT

Activities

1. Collecting and analyzing practical experiences in using ICT in Moldova schools
• Best practices of using ICT in schools
• Training workshop “Pedagogical approach of using ICT in schools”
2. Short term courses for trainers
3. Training the tutors
4. Acquisition and installation of equipment
• Preparation of Web servers for project needs
5. Development of training materials
• Testing of training educational resources
• Workshop on the results of the pilot phase
6. Analysis of the experience of the EU consortium members in promoting bridges between universities and schools
• Round table “Policies and strategies of making schools ICT capable”
• Guide with recommendations for headmasters and decision makers
7. Selection of trainees
• Organization of training courses
• Seminar on the results of the training courses
8. Design, creation and maintenance of a project Web site
• Establishing mechanisms for the involvement of the target audience
• Dissemination seminar
9. Involvement of potential schools in ICT education
10. Continuing evaluation
• Evaluation round table
• Inter-project coaching
11. 1Management for the first year
• Management for the second year

Main staff members involved

Roberto Escarré, University of Alicante, Project director. Tasks performed: administration and financial project management; planning and organising the programme of the visits.

Xavier Leal, University of Alicante, Project administrator. Tasks performed: administration and financial project management; organising the workshops; planning and organising the programme of the visits.

Sergio Lujan, University of Alicante, IT specialist. Tasks performed: elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and training materials.

Göran Karlsson, Kungling Tekniska Högskolan, Project manager. Tasks performed: organising the workshop; planning and organising the programme of the visits; consultancy for criteria procedure determination for selection of schools to be prepared as ICT-capable.

Vitor Teodoro, head of department, João Pedro Soares Fernandes, IT specialist, New Lisbon University. Tasks performed: organising the workshop; planning and organising the programme of the visits; consultancy for criteria procedure determination for selection of schools to be prepared as ICT-capable, elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and training materials.

Simion Caisîn, State Institute of Continuing Education, Rector. Tasks performed: project coordinator, organising the workshop; planning and organising the programme of the visits, elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and courses for ICT education.

Cabac Valeriu, vicerector, Balti State University ”A.Russo”, Balmuş Nicolai, head of department, State Pedagogical University “I.Creanga”, Postolachi Igor, vicerector, Tiraspol State University. Tasks performed: prepare the presentations, materials, handouts for the workshop; elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and training materials.

Spinei Ion, vicerector, Grigore Ţurcan, head of department, Pascari Iraida, head of department, Fedotov Svetlana, senior lecturer, Iacob Lilia, senior lecturer, Ringaci Valentin, head of department, Dumbraveanu Roza, assistant professor, State Institute of Continuing Education. Tasks: prepare the presentations, materials, handouts for the workshop; elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and courses; teacher training.

Cabac Ghenadie, senior lecturer, Balti State University ”A.Russo”. Tasks performed: preparation of Web server for project needs, LMS Moodle installation, adaptation and maintenance.

Junior staff members involved in training activities and LMS Moodle installation, adaptation and support: Mazur Vladimir, Rusu Liuba, Ostapciuc Nicolai - IT specialists of State Institute of Continuing Education; Resetneac Evghenii, Burlacenco Serghei, Rusu Igor, Panteleev Alexei, Televca Dmitrii – master degree students.

Progress to date

In order to achieve the project objectives have been obtained the following results:

During the period March - August, 2008 training for trainers that will provide training courses for teachers in the selected schools has been carried out at The State Institute of Continuing Education.

In June, 2008 short term training for 6 online tutors from partner country universities in using of the new learning environment – Learning Management System (LMS) "Moodle" at The University of Alicante and at the New University of Lisbon has been carried out.

In March, 2008 have been started training courses for preparing the school ICT resource teaching staff in selected schools on the base of Professional Development Program with duration of 644 hours and the form of recognition – requalification diploma.

Have been organised and carried out two round tables: “ICT in teaching” and “ICT in learning”. Have been prepared and discussed the programme, list of participants and content of the materials, reports, presentations, handouts for the round tables.

The structure of the training courses has been elaborated.

New training materials have been elaborated for preparing the school ICT resource teaching staff.

Have been reviewed existed training materials and have been elaborated new training materials for training courses for teachers in the selected schools.

Equipment needed for the project activities in in-service teaching training have been purchased and installed in the partner country universities.

Problems in project implementation

There are no problems in project implementation.

Next steps

Publishing a training materials for school ICT resource teaching staff.

Support and maintenance of training courses on the base of Professional Development Program with duration of 644 hours and the form of recognition – requalification diploma for school ICT co-ordinators at The State Institute of Continuing Education.

LMS Moodle server support, maintenance and updating.

Project web-site updating.

Pilot course on testing the new training educational resources.

Workshop on the results of the pilot phase.

Training courses for cca 1200 school teachers from 40 selected schools on the use of ICT in education to make schools ICT-capable.

Seminar on the results of the training courses.

Involvement of target audience and potential schools in ICT education.

Dissemination round table.

Evaluation seminar.

Inter-project coaching.

ESTIM Summary Report

Project title

E-Learning in Service Teacher Training in Moldova

Project duration (with starting and ending dates)

From 01/09/2005 to 31/08/2007

Project partners (with contacts details of contact persons in the Partner country/ies and the EU)

ES, Alicante - Universidad de Alicante, Roberto Escarre, r.escarre@ua.es

MD, Chisinau – The State Continuing Education Institute,Simion Caisin, caisin@iic.md

MD, Chisinau - Moldovan Pedagogical State University 'Ion Creanga', Nicolae Andronaki, andronaki@upm.moldnet.md

MD, Chisinau - State University of Moldova, Elena Muraru, muraru@usm.md

SE, Stockholm - Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Lennart Johanson, lennartj@admin.kth.se

Project budget (with an indication of budget co-funded)

Cost of the action is 210,285.00 euro out of which 12,000.00 euro are cofinanced

Objectives

• To develop a new training course for ICT education and its implementation in in-service teacher training in accordance with the European e-Learning Strategy and e-Bologna action;
• To create a network of local ICT promoters covering all regions of Moldova;
• To train 250 school teachers on the use of ICT in education.

Outcomes

1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TEACHER TRAINING COURSES FOR ICT EDUCATION
2. ELABORATION AND INTRODUCTION OF A NEW COURSES FOR SCHOOL ICT CO-ORDINATORS.
3. SETTING UP A E-LEARNING NETWORK OF LOCAL ICT PROMOTERS FOR TEACHER TRAINING.
4. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHER TRAINING
5. DISSEMINATION
6. SUSTAINABILITY
7. QUALITY CONTROL AND MONITORING
8. MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT

Activities

1. Collecting and analysing practical experiences in in-service ICT in education.
• Analyse teaching/learning software and materials in participating countries.
• Workshop “Strategies and planning for the use of ICT in education”.
• Elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and training courses for ICT education
2. Analisis of the experience of the European partners Universities and collection of the relevant materials for school ICT co-ordinators Program.
• Adaptation, elaboration and publishing a new training courses for school ICT co-ordinators.
• Introduction of a new ICT in Education courses for school ICT co-ordinators at The State Continuing Education Institute
3. Organisational, pedagogical and methodological framework for the local promoters network.
• Acquisition and installation of the equipment in the partner universities.
• Workshop on e-Learning in teacher training.
4. Designing, developing and testing new methods and educational resources.
• Training the online tutors.
• Pilot course on testing the new delivering technology.
5. Setting up mechanisms for larger involvement of potential users in Teacher Education through e-Learning
• Creating of a WEB site
6. Involvement of potential users for in-service ICT in education
7. Monitoring the progress in Project activities.
• Evaluation seminar.
8. Management of the project for the first year
• Management of the project for the second year

Main staff members involved

Roberto Escarre, University of Alicante, Project director. Tasks performed: administration and financial project management; organizing the workshop “Strategies and planning for the use of ICT in education”; planning and organazing the programme of the visits, e-Learning in ICT education courses consultancy.

Laura Prieto, University of Alicante, Project administrator. Tasks performed: administration and financial project management; organizing the workshop; planning and organazing the programme of the visits.

Lennart Johansson, Victor Cordas, Olga Cordas, Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Project managers. Tasks performed: organizing the workshop; planning and organazing the programme of the visits, e-Learning in ICT education courses consultancy.

Simion Caisîn, State Continuing Education Institute, rector. Tasks performed: project coordinator, organizing the workshop; planning and organazing the programme of the visits, elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and courses for ICT education.

Muraru Elena, vicerector, Pereteatcu Sergiu, profesor asistant, State University of Moldova, Balmuş Nicolai, State Pedagogical University, head of department. Tasks performed: prepare the presentation, materials, handouts for the workshop; elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and courses for ICT education.

Vancea Ilie, vicerector, Grigore Ţurcan, head of departmen, Pascari Iraida, head of department, Fedotov Svetlana, senior lecturer, Iacob Lilia, senior lecturer, Ringaci Valentin, head of department, Dumbraveanu Roza, head of department, State Continuing Education Institute. Tasks performed: prepare the presentation, materials, handouts for the workshop; elaboration of new teacher training curriculum and courses for ICT education.

Progress to date

In order to achieve the project objectives have been obtained the following results:

Have been collected and analysed practical experiences in in-service ICT in education in the consortium Universities. Have been analysed teaching/learning software and materials in consortium universities. Have been prepared review of the ways of using ICT in teaching training.

Have been organised and carried out the Workshop “Strategies and planning for the use of ICT in education”. Have been prepared and discussed the programme, list of participants and content of the materials, reports, presentations, handouts for the workshop.

Have been analysed the EU partners’ experience in the field of ICT curses development for teacher training. Have been discussed the structure of the e-Learning ICT education courses. Have been reviewed the relevant materials. Specification of necessary hardware and software have been discussed. The outline for four modules for teacher training courses: “ICT literacy”; “ICT in Subject Areas”, “Infusion of the ICT across the curriculum”, “ICT specialisation” have been determinated.

Have been analysed experience of the European partners Universities and collected the relevant materials for school ICT co-ordinators Program. Equipment needed for the project activities in e-Learning teaching training have been purchased and installed in the partner country universities.

Problems in project implementation

Grant agreement has been signed 8 months later, therefore it may be necessary to prolong the terms of the Project implementation.

Next steps

To finish development of new teacher training courses for ICT education.

Elaboration and publishing a new training courses for school ICT co-ordinators.

Introduction of a new ICT in Education courses for school ICT co-ordinators at The State Continuing Education Institute.

Pilot course on testing the new delivering technology.

Designing, developing and testing new methods and educational resources.

Training the online tutors.

Workshop on e-Learning in teacher training.

Creating of a WEB site.

Involvement of potential users for in-service ICT in education.

To train 250 school teachers on the use of ICT in education.

National Training Center for Educational Management

DESCRIPTION ON THE PROGRESS OF YOUR PROJECT

Please provide a free text narrative description of a maximum of four pages on the progress of your project by providing information on the following points.

Overall achievement level

• Is the project achieving its objective as set out in the original Application? If it is, could you please briefly describe how? If it is not, could you please explain why this is the case and what you propose to do?

The overall project objective is to create the National Training Center for Educational Management, to meet the needs of educational professionals functioning in management roles in national and provincial governments by assisting them to develop their understanding and skills in relation with current law, educational management, theory and practice and to prepare them for leadership roles at national and international levels.

During the first and the second years the project achieved the objective intended for this period. The following matters have been carried out:

• Creating the legal framework for the National Training Center for Educational Management
• Preparing the physical localities (classrooms, office)
• Training the administrative and academic staff of the Center
• Acquiring the equipment (computers, projector, network connection etc.)
• Elaborating the teaching aids and materials
• Choosing the technologies for distance education
• Training trainers and tutors
• Fulfilling the marketing/dissemination activities
• The pilot courses of the modules elaborated according to traditional and E-learning methods.

• Describe and demonstrate the key successes of your project and detail any shortcomings or disappointments.

According to the project work plan for the first year the curriculum and syllabi for the courses in Educational Management within Moldovan public administration institutions related to the area of education was developed. The courses comprised initially 5 planned modules: “Introduction to Educational Management”, “Planning, Financing and Enquiry methods in Educational Management”, “Institutional Resource Management”, “Institutional evaluation of the quality”, “The meaning of Educational Change” and 4 modules proposed during the curriculum elaboration: “Information and Communication Technologies Management”, “Project Management”, “Marketing in Education”, “The Education in Moldova in view of educational management”. As the school headmasters and the participants of the conference suggested, an additional training material “ICT Literacy”(240pages) have been elaborated at the beginning of the pilot courses. The analysis of the experience of the consortium members in the field of educational management has been performed; the structure and the content of the modules have been discussed; the relevant materials have been collected. Study modules and guides have been printed.

The physical localities (administration office and trainer classroom) have been prepared. The necessary equipment for the first project year has been purchased and installed.

There have been undertaken activities related to the legal basis of the National Center for Educational Management. The order of the Ministry of Education concerning the creation and functioning of this center was prepared and signed. This document stipulates the legal framework of functioning, the duties and responsibilities of the National Center for Educational Management. The statute of this center has been also elaborated.

The analysis of the experience of the EU consortium members in using E-Learning in education has been performed. This experience has been discussed and disseminated among partner members during the visits to the partner institutions (4,5) (October 2002); (1) (March 2003); (2) (April 2003); (2) (July 2003); (1) (October 2003); (1) (March 2004).

Certain activities have been undertaken for informing target group and interested institutions about the project objectives and outcomes. The materials for the brochure about the project activities have been printed. The Web site has been elaborated. About 240 school headmasters have been informed about the project purposes and implications for educational managers during the dissemination seminars in January, February, March, and April 2004.

The scientific conference “Modernization of the Education Managers Professional Training” has been carried out by the consortium members on March 31st – April 1st 2004.

• Could you please describe the extent of the involvement and support, both academic and institutional, of the consortium’s partner institutions.

The consortium member (1) has been involved in the elaboration and preparation of the modules; in acquisition of the equipment; in preparing the physical localities for the center; in organising mobilities; in preparing information about the project for the target group; in performing analysis of using ICT in education.

The consortium member (2) has been involved in financing of all activities which have been carried out within the frame work of the project; in monitoring of the results; in sharing its experience in the field of educational management, in providing relevant materials; in organising meetings and discussions about the structure and content of the modules; in providing materials and experience in using virtual environment for designing distance courses.

The partner member (3) was involved in assuring the legal framework for the functioning of the National Training Center for Educational Management; in information activities for the target group; in the analysis of the consortium members experience; in discussing the structure of the modules.

The partner member (4) has been involved in sharing its experience in the field of educational management; in providing relevant materials; in providing consultancy on E-learning technologies; in discussing the structure and the content of the modules; in discussing the acquisition of the appropriate hardware and software.

The consortium member (5) has participated in sharing the experience in designing and running traditional and on-site courses; in providing consultancy on E-learning technologies; in providing analysis of using ICT in education; in providing recommendations in linking academics with public institutions.

• Please describe any external factors or actors which may have played a role in the project achievements realised so far.

There were no external factors or actors that have played any significant role in the project achievements.

• Please comment on the major lessons you have learnt from this project and on any aspects of the cooperation between the partners in the consortium which you might find appropriate.

The following lessons have been learned:

The Tempus programme creates a framework and a basis of convergence of the educational systems within the European Union.

The Tempus programme is a facilitator for the establishment of the minimum standards for the integration into EU.

The Tempus creates collateral effects ( premises for other partnerships, for example).

The Tempus project motivated us to learn about European Lifelong Learning Program, Memorandum of Lisbon European Council of 2000, the European Changing in Higher Education (the Bologna process), the European Strategy in Vocational Education and Training (the Copenhagen process).

• Please indicate if the consortium member(s) in the partner country is involved in any other international cooperation projects (Tempus or other) relevant for your project, and what kind of coordination/cooperation was established during the implementation of the Joint European Project./Networking Project.

The partner member (1) is also involved in the Tempus project UM_JEP 22211-2001 “Accreditation and Quality Assessment of Higher Education in Moldova”. There has been established some cooperation with this project. The consortium members have participated in the workshop organised by the coordinators of the mentioned project (November 2002). In 2003 the Institute of Continuing Education became, with the authorization of EU, a partner in the consortium of the project UM_JEP 22211-2001to contribute to training of the managerial staff of the State University of Cahul.

• Please indicate whether you have been in contact with any other Tempus projects that are being carried out in the same town or region.

There have been established contacts with the Tempus project UM_JEP 22041-2001 “Modernisation de la Gestion de l’Universite de Cahul” carried out in the same region. Consultancy and expertise of the partner member (1) has been provided to the consortium members of this project in the field of informatisation and modernisation of the State University of Cahul, Moldova. The Partner member (1) has donated the software application for maintaining and keeping students’ records to the State University of Cahul, Moldova; has organized training courses for the managerial staff, and has elaborated teaching materials (10 volumes) including different topics of education management.

Project Management

• Please describe your methodology and approach towards the day-to-day management of coordinating the project activities.

The day to day management of coordinating the project activities is based of organising a good communications between partners involved, between the contact persons and the service providers from each consortium members. Besides there were established direct contacts between different service providers from members’ countries. As communication tools the email, fax, telephone calls and ordinary letters were used. The planning of the activities, analysis and evaluation of the achieved results was performed during coordination meetings.

• Please describe any unforeseen problems you may have encountered while managing the project and how you dealt with them. In particular, did you need change your method or your approach to management during the project year?

No unforeseen problems have happen while managing the project.

• Could you please comment on the respective roles and involvement of the consortium’s partners in the management of the project.

An important role in the management of the project has the coordinator of the project (1). He is responsible for the project management/administration, coordination of the elaboration of the modules, project team administration, monitoring of the daily activities in the partner country, organising the mobilities. The contact person at (3) has been involved in coordinating the activities related to the legal basis for the National Training Center for Educational management. The contact person at (4) was involved in managing collection of relevant materials, distance education consultancy, organising meetings with experts, planning mobilities. The contact person at (5) was involved in managing activities related to using ICT in education, organising meetings with experts, planning mobilities, equipment selection, e-learning consultancy.

• Could you please inform us whether you foresee any internal, or inter-project, monitoring activities?

The monitoring activities included preventive monitoring, such as uses of information materials from Tempus web-site and contractors’ meetings; desk monitoring that included report assessment, answers to e-mails, fax and telephones, correspondence with partner contact persons; financial monitoring that included check of compliance of the statements of expenditure with the contractual obligations and with the guidelines for the use of the project grant; on-site monitoring visits. Luis Ramos, the project contractor, visited Moldova twice to coordinate and monitor the activities (June and December 2003). In March 2004 the contact persons of all consortium members organized a reunion to evaluate and monitor the project outcomes.

Administrative Management

• Please describe where within your institution (faculty or department level, for example) and by whom the administrative management of the project is mainly handled

The administrative management of the project is handled at the economic administration department by Maria Jose Sanchez and by Maria Jesus, the economist in the Strategic and Quality Planning Department and by the director of Strategic and Quality Planning Department Luis Ramos, who is the contractor of the project.

• Please indicate what sort of administrative support you get from your institution.

The administrative support implies collaborative work with colleagues on questions related to the financial problems and to the project administrative activities.

• Have you encountered any clashes between the internal rules for budget management and procedures for transfer of project funds within your institution and those laid down by the Tempus Programme itself?

No significant clashes between the internal rules for the budget management and procedures for transfer of project funds within the contractor institution have been encountered.

• Are financial monitoring systems used to keep an overview of the project funds and forecasts? Could you please describe these.

The financial monitoring was performed by the Economic Administration Department of Alicante University. Every time they checked that the expenses correspond to Budget Statement clauses, the documents that confirm the expenses correspond to User’s Guides, and all the documents are presented in time.

Dissemination of results

• Could you please describe what action has been undertaken for the dissemination of the results of the different activities?

The materials for the dissemination brochure about the project activities have been prepared in Romanian, English and Russian and printed. About two hundred and forty school headmasters have been informed about the project purposes and implications for educational managers during the short term seminar organised for them by the Ministry of Education. The information about the project has been placed on the web site of the project and in local newspapers, five disseminations seminars with the school headmasters have been organized.

• Could you please say if the project has undertaken any information activities going outside the project itself?

No information activities going outside the project itself has been undertaken.

Mobility, staff development and training of teachers/ trainers:

• Detailed information about mobilities will be provided in the following statistical tables. Please here describe how mobility, whether by staff or students, helped in achieving the objectives of the project?

The mobilities have been performed by staff according to the workplan for each contractual year. The visit of the staff from (1), (4), (5) to (2) helped analysis of the experience of consortium members in the field of educational management; in collecting relevant materials; in structuring and designing the curriculum and the content of the modules. The visit of (1), (2), (3) to (4), (5) helped in analysing the experience of the consortium members in using ICT in distance courses; in outlining the content of the modules; in specifying and discussing some topics included in the modules.

• Please provide, where applicable and if possible, information about selection criteria used for mobility and about how home institutions recognise mobility when carried out or take it into account.

At the beginning of the year the Consortium chased a group of people involved in selecting candidates for the foreseen project. This group was formed by Luis Ramos, the director of the Strategic Planning and Quality Department of the University of Alicante, Jose Manuel, Professor at the Political and Administrative Science Department of the University of Alicante, Lennart Johansson, project manager at the International Relations Office at the KTH , Simion Caisin, director of Continuing Education Institute of the State University of Moldova, Goran Karlsson, IT specialist at Centrinity company. This group selected the participants in each activity, taking into consideration the level of their competence, professionalism and given position at the home institution, and also paying attention to their maximal contribution to the achievement of the objectives of the Project.

According to these demands, the following persons have been selected: Gutu Vladimir, Professor at the Pedagogical Department, State University of Moldova, Grigore Turcan, head of Study Department at the Continuing Education Institute, Bucun Nicolai, professor at the Continuing Education Institute, Roza Dumbraveanu, associate professor at the Continuing Education Institute, Carolina Platon, Head of the Pedagogical Department, State University of Moldova, Iraida Pascari, head of the Informatics Department of the Continuing Education Institute, Constantin Cristea, professor at the foreign languages department, State University of Moldova, Liliana Pogolsa, Vice-Minister of Education, Ludmila Pavlov, Head of International Relations Department of the Ministry of Education, and others.

The participants in the mobilities on behalf of Moldova applied the knowledge acquired in consortium Universities in their home University for developing the content of the modules, for implementing ICT tools into distance education. The main effort was directing to realizing the outcome N1 – the elaboration of the modules for the programme “Educational Management” and development of teaching materials, retraining of trainers, short-term training in the field of e-learning , outcome N2 , Design and maintenance of E-learning site and development of E-media materials. The curriculum for the courses in educational management and the teaching materials have been prepared. The participants in the mobilities used the experience gained in the elaboration of the modules.

LifeLongStand

TACIS SCM Pilot Project

“National standards for lifelong learning - LifeLongStand”

T012B03

Specific Objective

To elaborate and implement national lifelong learning standarts compliant with the framework of European higher education system and documents that regulate provisioning of professional lifelong education

Principle Objective

1. A nuber of ten national lifelong learning standarts will be elaborated and implemented.
2. The seminar "The European lifelong learning strategies" will be organized in Spain attracting spanish experts representatives from higher educational institutions, Ministry of Education of Moldova and other interested organisations.
3. The seminar "The needs of learner and labour market in knowledge-based society" will be organized in Moldova to increase public awareness concerning professional education.
4. The practical Conference "The standarts and quality of lifelong learning" will be organized in Moldova involving representatives from interested institutions in order to disseminate the results of joint work and stimulate further development and adoption of educational standards for specific specialities.
5. The normative acts that regulate the process of lifrelong learning and establish organisational framework for effective work of educational institutions will be developed in close cooperation with the Ministry of Education and set to work.

Duration - 1 year

Consoptium

University of Alicante (Spain) – Contractor,

Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (Sweden) – Coordinator,

Continuing Education Institute (Moldova) – Partner,

Ministry of Education (Moldova) – Partner,

National Agenty for Higher Education (Sweden) - Partner