TREE outcomes students point of view

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TREE outcomes students point of view

• European universities responding to industrial
  challenges, 7th March, Helsinki
• Anna Fernández, Barcelona
• BEST Educational Committee

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BEST is

• constantly growing non-profit, non-representative,
  non-political and volunteer student
  organisation funded in 1989
• 79 European Universities
• 29 countries
• 900.000 Students

• BEST
• EduCo
• EoE
• BEST in TREE
• Outcomes

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Educational Committee

• BEST Educational Committee
• Enhance engineering education in Europe
• Participation in European Thematic Networks and
  Projects about Engineering Education such as H3E,
  E4, TREE, ReVE, VM-BASE, SPUTNIC, etc.
• Involving students in educational matters

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Events on Education

• Participant stakeholders in engineering
  education
• One week events on educational topics. Sharing
  opinions and experiences

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Why Events on Education?

• Students are the most affected by the education
  changes
• Source of fresh opinions and ideas
• Opportunity to raise awareness of projects among
  students

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Events on Education in numbers

• From 1996 until 3/2008 28 events on education
• Outcomes of the discussions presented in
  conferences all around Europe (over 90)

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BEST in TREE

• Member of the Management Committee (Anna
  Fernández)
• Leading 2 Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• B6 Stimulating student research in 1st cycle
  (Nicolò Wojewoda)
• C8 The role of extra-curricular activities in EE
  (Ömer Hantal)
• Students input in the project

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BEST in TREE

• Events on Education
• B6
• BEST Academics and Companies, Service Science
  and Undergraduate Research, Brussels, March 2007
• Acces to higher education and undergraduate
  research, Ljubljana, May 2005
• C8
• The role of extra curricular activities in the
  formation of Engineers, Rome Tor-Vergata, July
  2005
• BEST Academic and Companies, Istanbul, March 2006

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BEST in TREE

• Outcomes of Events on Education in other SIGs
• D6
• Ethics and Sustainable Development in Engineering
  Education, Madrid, March 2006
• A8
• Engineering Demand and offer in Europe, Milan,
  April 2007

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Outcomes

• SIG C8 The role of extracurricular activities in
  EE
• Potential of such activities self-confidence,
  team work, leadership,etc. social
  skills, competent engineers
  complementary education
• Key role from universities flexibility for
  students involved (e.g. exams and attendance)
• Recognition (good practices)
• UK
• Spain

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Outcomes

• SIG B6 Stimulating student research in the 1st
  cycle
• Undergraduate Research (UR) enhances student
  learning richer Innovation
  Culture
• Common approach is to encourage UR in the phase
  of the final thesis
• In Europe no nation-wide initiatives exist for
  UR. It is left to Higher Educational Institutes.
• Companies are a crucial element as they provide
  funding

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