UXiship project meeting and EKA team meeting

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has taken a decision to extend the eligibility period of project “Accelerating ICT students′ start-up development competence via interdisciplinary modular courses in the HEI curricula” (UXiship) until 14/11/2023.

In this regard, the project partners met online on March 12, 2021, to discuss the amendments to Activity plan. According to the new version, within the work package 1 EKA will be responsible for Task 1.6 “Content development / Update of subjects” and Task 1.11 “Approval conference of developed ICT-based entrepreneurial module for engineering curricula”.

During the meeting, specific attention was paid to discussion of the Task 1.1 “Inventorial and gap analysis of existing curricula”. Task 1.1 leader is TalTech, but EKA has initiated a launch of express analysis and presented the simplified form, containing 14 soft skills and 33 hard skills relevant for ICT specialties. Project participants, responsible for relevant ICT-related study programmes in Russian and Kazakhstan Universities, should critically analyze the skills listed in the form and to mark those skills, which students can acquire studying the courses of the programme. Rostov State University of Economics has already completed the form for all ICT-related Bachelor, Master and Doctoral programmes.

Considering the fact that all “Train the trainer” visits to Russian and Kazakh Universities are postponed due to the COVID-19 caused restrictions, the European partners decided to deliver a set of online lectures. The list of lectures that will be offered to mentored partners was discussed during EKA team online meeting on March 15, 2021.

Seven EKA team members, UXiship coordinator at EKA, EKA Vice Rector Jelena Titko, and EKA UXiship administrator participated in the meeting. The list of EKA offered courses contains: Marketing Communication, Marketing Strategies, Branding Strategies for IT, Project Management: Specifics for the IT sector, Corporate Social Responsibility,Financial Planning for Business, Investments in Intellectual Capital, Introduction to Entrepreneurship: Specifics for IT Branch, and Contemporary Business Models. The lectures are planned to be delivered till the mid of April 2021.

UXiship is financed and supported by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Union Capacity building in the field of higher education (Project ref. No. 609870-EPP-1-2019-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP).