Work Packages

WP1: Micro-credentials for South Caucasus: Status-Quo and Roadmapping

Lead Beneficiary: YSU
Objectives:

To investigate and present in a structured and unified way the regional conditions, existing practice, policy and regulatory frameworks with regards to short competence-oriented educational measures potentially leading to micro-credentials within and outside of formal education;
To study and analyse (for the purpose of adjustment and adoption) best European practice in development and issuance of micro-credentials
To identify and connect to major policy-level, economic and societal stakeholders relevant to and interested in introducing micro-credentials in national education systems;
To initiate the national level consultations resulting in the Roadmaps for Micro-credentials introduction

WP2: Dialogue on standardization and mutual recognition of micro-credentials

Lead Beneficiary: CIMEA
Objectives:

To study and benchmark with national practices the European standards in describing micro-credentials
To identify necessary adjustments in the national regulations concerning implementation of Bologna principles and instruments in order to integrate micro-credentials in the way allowing mutual recognition on national, regional and European levels
To initiate and facilitate the structured discussion (involving European experts) on the possibility to include micro-credentials in to National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) and on the practical arrangements to enable transparent internal/external quality assurance systems for micro-credentials

WP3: Regional Capacity Building Programme on micro-credentials

Lead Beneficiary: UG
Objectives:

To build the capacity of the national academic communities to develop, deliver, and evaluate various types of short competence-oriented educational courses leading to microcredentials, thus creating best practice and providing bottom-up feedback to the policy level
To equip the academic staff with the knowledge and skills in applying co-creation methods for co-designing such targeted educational interventions
To support the partner countries in defining the processes and structures for issuance and verification of digital micro-credentials by local stakeholders, in local languages, in accordance with the national regulation in the field of education and personal Data Protection

WP4: Pilot on developing and issuing micro-credentials in line with the national Guidelines on micro-credentials

Lead Beneficiary: EIU/UER
Objectives:

To practically implement the complete cycle of designing, developing, delivering and evaluating courses leading to digital micro-credentials for different categories of learners and by different education providers
To pilot developed capacities, Guideline resulting from Task 2.2, proposed QA tools, technologies for digital micro-credentialing
To collect evidences in support of the envisaged policy reforms
To generate local best practice in micro-credentials for dissemination

WP5: Awareness, Excellence and Sustainability

Lead Beneficiary: GRENA
Objectives:

To define policy support actions for the different target groups,
To establish and implement a dissemination and exploitation plan
To reach out to the different stakeholders
To create and maintain online dissemination channels
To identify workshops, events, and conferences to disseminate the project results at
To lead the exploitation of project results and activities
To develop a sustainability plan

WP6: Project management, coordination and quality assurance

Lead Beneficiary: GTU
Objectives:

To define, implement, and evaluate the project coordination and management activities and measures
To ensure the completion of tasks and deliverables and the successful attainment of milestones
To coordinate and communicate project activities with EACEA
To ensure the financial soundness and compliance with the EU financial regime