Principal objectives and suggested activities of ECTSBIH Tempus project

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Principal objectives and suggested activities of
ECTS-BIH Tempus project
ECTS-BIH Introducing European credit transfer
system on Medical faculties in Bosnia and
Herzegovina Tempus-Cards Project European
Commission

• -original proposal-

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Consortium Members

• Contractor Medical Faculty of University of
  Heidelberg ( Prof. Hans
  Guenther Sonntag )
• Coordinator Medical faculty of University of
  East Sarajevo
• Consortium members
• Wroclaw University of Technology 
• Medical faculty of University of Ghent
• Medical faculty of University of Mostar 
• Medical faculty of University of Sarajevo 
• Medical faculty of University of Banja Luka 
• Medical faculty of University of Tuzla

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Project description

• Duration 1 year
• Total budget 127328 

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Specific project objectives

• Education of representatives of BH Medical
  faculties administration, teaching staff and
  students about main procedures and techniques for
  introducing ECTS system
• Development ECTS Committee
• Preparation of bylaw
• Forming of implementation teams consisted of
  representatives of teaching staff and students

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Education of representatives of BH Medical
faculties

• Education through two short training visits at
  EU partner and in BH .
• Lectures will be lead by experts from EU
  partner Universities.
• Active participation of our teaching staff.
• participants will be introduced with ECTS system
• Three persons from each Medical faculty will be
  educated during project.

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Education of representatives of BH Medical
faculties/topics

• what is ECTS and how to develop ECTS system
• difference between CTS and ECTS
• connection between local grades and ECTS grades
• introducing of ECTS
• making of key ECTS documents like information
  package and course catalogue learning agreements
  and transcript of record

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Education of representatives of BH Medical
faculties/topics

• difficulties with the introduction of ECTS,
• the advantages of ECTS
• connection between ECTS system,
• examination system and going from one year to
  another,
• calculation of ECTS credits and allocation to
  different courses,
• obtaining of credits in ECTS,
• students mobility and ECTS system

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Education of representatives of BH Medical
faculties/topics-final seminar

• More oriented toward practical training.
• Work in small groups with practical
  explanations how to introduce ECTS credit system
  on BH Medical faculties.
• Work on allocation and labeling of courses with
  appropriate number of credits.
• Evaluation at the end of the project.

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Development ECTS Commities

• ECTS Committee will be in charge of
  implementation of the credit system on
  faculties.
• Members of the each Faculty team and legal
  representatives of the Faculty will be in charge
  of forming of this Committee.
• Main obligation of the Committee labeling of
  different courses with appropriate credits.
• Students will be included in comities.

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Preparation of bylaw

• Bylaw should contain recommendations and
  suggestions for introducing ECTS.
• Experts from EU Universities will participate in
  this activity.
• In the end of the project final document for
  introducing ECTS will be developed
• Implementation visit of EU experts will be
  organized.

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Forming of implementation teams

• Each team will be consisted of representatives of
  faculty administration teaching staff and
  students from each participating faculty

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Work plan

• Opening Consortium meeting- Poland
• Establishing of ECTS comitees
• ECTS training visit in EU
• Mid-term meeting of consortium BH
• ECTS seminar in BH

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Work plan

• Preparation of bylaw and proposal for introducing
  ETCS
• Implementation seminar and developing of final
  document
• Maintaining of the web site
• Preparing of monitoring questionnaires
• Dissemination conference