KICK-OFF MEETING ON TEMPUS PROJECT REALIZATION

KICK-OFF MEETING ON TEMPUS PROJECT REALIZATION

In early May Nitra, Slovakia hosted the kick-off meeting on Tempus project realization called “Development of Public Accreditation of Agricultural programs in Russia”.

Representatives of Russian and European Universities took part in the meeting: Mari State University, Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev State Agricultural Academy, Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University, Kazan State Agrarian University, Kabardino-Balkarian Kokov State Agricultural Academy, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (Lithuania), University of Lleida (Spain) and Estonian University of Life Sciences.

Employers were presented by the joint-stock company AgriConsult, St. Petersburg; North-West Research Institute of Mechanization and Electrification in Agriculture of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya), Spain.

On the alignment event the participants had an opportunity to present their Universities/organizations and name their role in the project realization.

Following the results of the meeting the plan of further actions on the project till December 2016 was composed. The next steps in the framework of the project will be mutual visits between Russian and European colleagues to the partner Universities aimed to the analytic work on higher education quality assurance.

Project information: http://pacagro.uniag.sk

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