Brief Overview - Content Of The Project
Duration: 15.11.2012 - 14.10.2015 (3 years)
Objective: A multi-country project to modernize curricula in sustainable tourism mangagement (SuToMa)
Partners: 30 universities, enterprises and NGOs in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia
Occasion: Tourism is a regional priority for the Caucasus, but an underdeveloped field in all three countries yet
Targets: 12 new modules for innovative topics such as
- integration of theory and praxis
- intercultural communication
- e-learning and IT- technologies to be implemented in existing and new programmes of Bachelor Science and Master Science
- study programmes, accredited with ECTS
- interdisciplinary approach such as agriculture, tourism and business studies
Outcomes:
- a common understanding of sustainability and regional development
- modules created according to the Bolgna standards
- comparable qualification standards
- new methods and materials for teacher and tutor training
- formal integration of practical placements in the curricula
- regular monitoring of milestones
- implementation of e-learning platform
- new international academic cooperation
Chronology:
Development of modules -> first year 2013
Training of teachers -> second year 2014
Testing with students -> third year 2015