On March 24-28, as part of the Development of Soft Skills in Higher Education Institutions of Armenia and Georgia in line with the requirements of the 21st Century Labour Market (DeSIRe) project, a capacity building training took place in Dresden, Germany. The Technical University of Dresden (TUD) welcomed the consortium partners.
The training covered a number of key areas to support the comprehensive development of students' soft skills in higher education. The training sessions and working group discussions focused on the following thematic areas:
- Essential Entrepreneurial Skills: Initiative and Proactivity;
- Business communication & Negotiation Skills;
- Understanding & Developining Organisational Culture;
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI);
- Design and implementation of learning modules and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
ANQA was represented at the event by Meri Barseghyan, specialist at Policy Development Division and Anahit Terteryan, specialist at Institutional and Programme Accreditation Division.
During the management meeting, Meri Barseghyan shared the QA group’s activities over the past six months as part of the project. In particular, Ms. Barseghyan provided the summary of results within WP6 – Quality Control & Monitoring, including the evaluation of capacity building trainings.
It should be noted that the project’s quality assurance processes are coordinated by ANQA in cooperation with the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (NCEQE) of Georgia and LUT University of Finland.
Development of Soft Skills at Higher Education Institutions of Armenia and Georgia in Compliance with the 21st Century Labour Market Requirements (DeSIRe) is a three-year Erasmus + project (2024-2027) that aims to ensure inclusive, equal quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for everyone, providing soft and professional skills in line with working career and market requirements.
Within the scope of the Erasmus+ DeSIRe project, transferable soft skills modules/MOOCs will be developed, to be introduced in the consortium partner HEIs from Armenia and Georgia.
The coordinator of the project is Vanadzor State University after Hovhannes Tumanyan. 17 partner organisations and HEIs from Armenia, Georgia, Finland, Spain and Ireland are involved in the project.