Associated Partners

Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia

Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia (PAARA) is the legal successor Armenian School of Public Administration, established in 1994 with the support of the European Union TACIS Program. Full-time, part-time, distance and short time forms of education are in place at the Academy. PAARA implements Master’s, PhD and post-doc programs in the field of Public Administration, Public Finance Management, Psychology of Management, Law, Political Sciences, Business Administration, etc. The Academy has implemented several Projects with the support of international organizations: Eurasia Foundation, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Department for International Development (DFID), UK; Open Society Institute (OSI), the World Bank, EU Tempus and Erasmus+ Programs, Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU), Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT)/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), German International Cooperation (GIZ), etc. The Faculty of the Academy includes top-tier academics, scholars, theorists, as well as practitioners. PAARA closely cooperates with the Government, National Assembly, President’s Administration of RA, and other governmental agencies, as well as local self-government bodies in terms of providing consultation and conducting research based on need assessment. PAARA also offers various training courses on various subjects and tailored-ones not only to its students, but also to the public and private sector representatives. PAARA is on its way of integrating into the European Higher Education Area and the European education quality standards are a landmark for PAARA. PAARA is a member of the NISPAcee (The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe), IASIA (International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration), ENTO (European Network of Training Organisations for Local and Regional Authorities).
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Association of Slovene Higher vocational colleges

Association of Higher Vocational Colleges of the Republic of Slovenia (Association HVC), was established on 20 April 2005 as a community of institutions operating in accordance with the regulations governing public institutions. Today represents and pursues the common interests of 49 public and private vocational schools of higher education, in cooperation with national, local, international bodies and organisations. It acts as a promotional centre for higher vocational education and organises the exchange of information and good practices. It ensures quality interconnection between all stakeholders. It provides professional support to members, solves systemic problems, organises training and professional consultations. Encourages and supports the development and renewal of all types of higher vocational education programmes, with an emphasis on flexibility and specialisation. It prepares, participates in and implements development projects and provides support to its members as a project office. The mission of the Association HVC is to represent the common positions and interests of public, private or individual VET schools in the Slovenian and international environment. It provides support to its members and promotes networking in the field of education, training, research and development towards increased innovation and entrepreneurship. In its work, the Association HVC emphasises and respects the highest standards of quality.

Department of education and social work of the University of Patras

The Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work of University of Patras was founded in the spring of 2019 and the first students enrolled from the academic year 2019-2020. It was created with the synergy of the former Department of Primary Education of the University of Patras and the former Department of Social Work of the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece. The two Departments that assisted in the creation of the new Department had a long experience each in its scientific and professional field. The Department of Primary education was founded in 1986. The Department of Social Work was established at the former Technological Educational Institute of Patras. The new Department is a result of the effort to monitor and respond to social developments and cotemporary needs. It aims at updating, improving and evolving the education (of all levels) of both Primary education teachers and social workers. In the case of the latter, the integration of their education in university education (University of Patras) also creates important prospects for the development of a dynamic field of research to understand and serve important social needs in the context of a more systematic and developed Social Policy.

D-ChallengHE project

D-ChallengHE project promotes inter-connected HE systems and address digital transformation and innovation in learning and teaching practices

Create a hub

Create a hub of universities and research institutes as a permanent observatory that can work on the issues of digitization of the HE system at the European level, share best practices, and promote collaboration among different institutions of the HE system;

Online training course

Build an online training course to empower professors and teachers, to perform high-quality online/blended teaching actions in HE, in the logic of LLL;

New online environments

Identify and develop new online environments for HE, enhancing the gamification logic to improve transversal and soft skills, i.e. e-leadership and digital maturity;

Safeguard quality standards

Elaborate assessment processes to safeguard quality standards and academic integrity in the context of online learning for a more flexible approach to address the online and blended delivery of study programmes;

Favour social innovation

Favour social innovation in the online and blended European HE Area through the sharing of experimented best practices among partner countries.

Elearning standards

The project starts from the observation that, currently, the academic community perceives that it’s still difficult to define elearning standards able to inform academic governance and stakeholders about the quality of e-learning processes. 

D-ChallengHE recognises the need to produce and validate a series of new quality assurance standards that consider the qualitative dimension of educational interaction in online learning environments and the need to communicate best practices at European level.

The definition of these standards relies on the intersection among policy, technology, education, society, and the labour market.