Project

The preparation phase considers two tasks that are supposed to be performed:

• Kick off meeting of all partners in Rwanda and visit of educational places, classrooms and laboratories in the Rwandan HEIs
• Reconnaissance of current curricula (FST and EPSM) from Rwandan HEIs: the European team in charge will contact administrative secretariats, departments and schools of the Rwandan HEIs to collect current approved curricula

The development of the WP2 considers three tasks that are supposed to be performed:

• The team in charge of revising curricula will analyse current approved documents in order to update the programmes in the field of Food Science and Technology (FST) and in the field of Environment Protection, Safety and Management (EPSM)
• Training of Rwandan teachers and students, who will be hosted in the European HEIs to prepare teaching/learning/training materials and set up 6 new programmes in the field of Food Science and Technology (FST) and in the field of Environment Protection, Safety and Management (EPSM) that the Rwandan HEIs will activate at the end of the project
• Training of Rwandan teachers and students through courses held by European teachers and trainers in the Rwandan HEIs, in order to prepare teaching/learning/training materials and set up new programmes

The development of the WP3 considers one important task that is supposed to be performed: staff members in charge of internationalisation activities from all Rwandan HEIs will have hosted at the University of Parma (Italy) for a training period in order to improve their internationalisation practices.

The development of the WP4 considers four tasks that are supposed to be performed:

• Purchase of digital equipment, software and devices needed to facilitate e-learning, connection between all HEIs and internationalization at home
• Design of the digital infrastructures
• Building and activation of the virtual platform in order to share teaching/learning materials, attending distance classes, carry out a virtual internship
• Testing the virtual platform

The quality plan considers three tasks that are supposed to be performed:

• Self-evaluation: the responsible of each Partner of the project will meet by videoconference, at least once a month, to take stock of the carried out activities, discuss problems, assess progress and guide further work.
• Self-evaluation: every six months, the project will be subject to control by the Evaluation Board of the University of Parma, which is the competent in-house body in evaluation and assessment activities. For the purposes of its operation, the Evaluation Board makes use of the technical and administrative support of the Organizational Unit (O.U.) – Management Control at the Univerity of Parma.
• External evaluation: the external evaluation of the activities and achievements will be assigned to independent experts to whom the interim report and the final project will be submitted.

The dissemination & exploitation considers four tasks that are supposed to be performed:

• Organization of 1-day Workshop in Europe (hosted by the University of Parma) oriented to present the whole project and the work in progress and to identify the particularities of the local needs in relation to the implementation of the national and international directives
• Organization of 1-day Workshop in Rwanda (hosted by the University of Rwanda) focused to present the project results to potential public international stakeholders
• Set up of the project web site, supposed to be updated once a month
• Planning and updating of all dissemination actions (for instance Twitter, Facebook, YouTube)

The whole development of project activities needs to be directed by a lead organization (University of Parma), since the administrative management of the project is needed for the entire project period. The University of Parma will assume the responsibility of connecting different partners, organizing activities, checking deadlines, checking quality, administrative practices.