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Name of the Coordinating Institution: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST Name of the Project Manager: DR. PETER MOSON Function: VICE-DEAN, HEAD OF THE COMMITTEE ON OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING Signature: Date: October 30, 1995 Address: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY BUDAPEST, MÛEGYETEM RKP.1- 3. Postcode: H-1521 Telephone: (36-1)4632318 Fax: (36-1)14633540 E-mail: MOSON@VMA.BME.HU	Name of the Head of the Institution: DR. PETER BIRO Title: RECTOR Signature: Date: October 30, 1995 Address: BUDAPEST, MÛEGYETEM RKP.1- 3. Postcode: H-1111 Telephone: (36-1)463-2221 Fax: (36-1)463-2220 E-mail: REIKT@REKTORI.BME.HU

For official USE: Application number: HU-94.05/APP/ /................................

Proposal Title:

Proposal Acronym :

Proposal Objective:

Establishing the structure of long cycle alternating higher educational forms in engineering leading to diploma or other state recognized certificate, based on the adaptation of international experiences (especially apprenticeship - CNAM, France), and real demands of Hungarian enterprises.

Organising a center for dealing with university-enterprise links (training needs, double tutoring, selection and assessment of learners etc).

Curriculum development containing professional, management, communication modules.

Beginning the training of trainers, tutors and the first groups of learners.

Proposal Consortium

Name of institution/organisation/consultant	Business	Town	Country
Technical University of Budapest (TUB)	education	Budapest	Hungary
Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM)	education	Paris	France
INGENIEURS 2000	foundation	Champs/Marne	France
Hungarian Round Table of Industrialists (HRTI)	foundation	Budapest	Hungary
National Union of Building Industry Entrepreneurs (Építési Vállalkozók Országos Szakszövetsége - ÉVOSZ)	chamber	Budapest	Hungary
Budapest Foundation For Enterprise Promotion (BVA)	foundation	Budapest	Hungary

Financial Proposal

Total Request in ECUs 200 000

Total funding other than PHARE 216406

Total cost of project 416406

Is funding also requested from other Programme Areas of this PHARE Programme? Please tick box.

Programme Area 1- Co-operation Between Higher Education and the Economy

Programme Area 2- Diversification of Initial Level Higher Education

Programme Area 3- Development of Distance Education

Programme Area 4- Post-Primary Education for Socially Disadvantaged Young People

Is funding also requested from other PHARE, European Union, World Bank or other Programmes? no.

Name of institution/organisation/consultant	Business	Town	Country
IBISTRA (Business and continuing training Ltd)	company	Berlin	Germany
Dunaferr Rt.	company	Dunaújváros	Hungary
Civil Buildings Construction Ltd. (Középületépítõ Rt.)	company	Budapest	Hungary
HDSys Ltd. (Apple Computer IMC Hungary)	company	Budapest	Hungary

The changing Hungarian economy has formulated new needs (more practice oriented training, increase of the role of management, foreign languages etc.) with respect to the higher education in engineering training. Alternating education in the professional stage (the last 2-3 years of the training) is an important opportunity to meet these needs.

The demand of the organisation of alternating sandwich type (university - enterprise) curricula at TU Budapest appeared in different ways

needs of enterprises (e.g. a contract was signed with Dunaferr in September 1995),

new methodological results in the international practice, where the learners and enterprises are more motivated in the industrial period (apprenticeship). (A protocol was signed about the adaptation of this methodology between the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education and the large, 200 year old French continuing education organisation CNAM).

The organisation of the project began in March 1995. 4 meetings were held with specialists of CNAM-Ingénieurs 2000 (3 in Budapest, 1 in Paris). The directorate of TUB was informed about the plans, a 4 member committee was formed at TUB (May 95). The legal background was investigated (vice-state secretary of labour, ministry of higher education). Preliminary training needs analysis was carried out by the help of the Hungarian Round Table of Industrialists, and some enterprises.

Priorities (and support criteria, objectives, criteria etc.) for this program area are divided into 5 subgroups. We shortly list their links to the project:

* the curricula will be formed based on the demands of enterprises; the operational structure guarantees the long term joint work; everybody having a basic scientific education is welcome (retraining, adult education); the standards will be raised especially by the new practice oriented methodology.

TU Budapest and CNAM guarantee the high academic quality of the formation, the industrial partnership provides the needs of economy; key players of the economy will take part in the educational process and financing; the members of the consortia are interested in its long term operation: the French side plans to include Budapest in its international center network, the Hungarian members are unions of enterprises or concrete enterprises with constant training needs; the students will spend half of the educational period in industry; the regional, EU links are obvious; TUB considers industrial co-operation in a unity of research, technology-transfer, education, economic diversification (it is demonstrated by the participants as well) and the innovation process of small , medium sized enterprises (represented by the Center in Budapest for Development of Enterprises) has special emphasis.

- short term results: the first (at least 4-5) alternating courses will begin in the application period), long term results: the industrial and international co-operation, the structure (curriculum, entrance, tutoring, assessment of learners etc. systems) will be ready by the end of the application period.

- the financial contribution of the consortium and external sources is 52% of the total budget, so the co-financing is larger than the request.

Summarized it can be seen that the project fits in all parts of Programme Area 1.

2.1. Objective

The objective of the project is the investigation and realisation of sandwich type (alternating) curricula in the Hungarian engineering education.

A special emphasis will be on the adaptation of a new educational form (training of engineers by apprenticeship) in Hungary, which has proved its vitality in EU countries (especially. in France). The curriculum concerns the second (professional part) of the classical technical education. The learning process is partly at the university, and partly at the enterprises under the joint direction of academic and industrial tutors. The learners have a special apprentice status.

The outcomes of the project can be divided into 3 basic parts:

establishment of the organisational structure of alternating education,

curriculum development,

education.

Organisational structure. Establishment of the Center of Formation by Apprenticeship(CFA Hungary 2000) hosted at the International Education Center (IEC) of TUB consisting of the parts: Academic Department, Education-Economy Foundation, International Office with the following basic tasks (they will be carried out with the co-operation of CNAM-INGENIEURS 2000 and the other members of the consortium) in the implementation period:

1. Feasibility study containing 3 aspects

-industrial(Training needs analysis of enterprises),

-institutional(ministries - legal status of apprentice, diplomas, credits,...),

-financial(possible short and long term financing).

2. Organisation of alternating education.

-training of participants (university, enterprise), tutors, meetings, materials,

-technical arrangements(lodgement, communication facilities, purchase of equipment, production and delivery of learning materials).

3. Recruitment of learners.

- information, advertising,

- joint (university, enterprise) entrance exams, documentations.

Curriculum development. The learners are supposed to have basic scientific education (the first 2-3 years at TUB or equivalent). Both university (academic) and enterprise (apprenticeship) periods (6-6 months/year) are parts of the training, the apprentice's individual plans are worked out by the university and enterprise tutors. The flexibility of this curriculum conforms with the new policies of the development of Hungarian higher education. Modern elements of contemporary education technology (eg. multimedia), open and distance learning will be widely used.

1. Academic period is divided into 3 parts

- Professional engineering module (approx. 60%). At the moment TU Budapest has 3 expressed needs, other ones (at least 2) will be opened based on training needs analysis.

- Management module (approx. 30%). In the implementation period it is planned common for all curricula.

- Foreign language communication (approx. 10%).

2. Apprenticeship. Practical work in the home enterprise. The students' tutorial and home-works are closely related to their industrial assignments. Distance educational elements. Use of multimedia materials.

Both academic and apprenticeship periods are ended with the assessment of learners with participation of all the members of the project.

Education. It is planned to provide the education for 2-3 new groups (approx. 20 person/group) of learners each year.

We underline that there will be a strong co-operation in the whole educational process between the university and enterprises.

Main Beneficiaries:

enterprises: they receive employees having more up to date general knowledge and practical skills fitting to their needs at a relatively low cost,

learners: in addition to modern high-level education, they have a guarantee to find employment at the end of education period,

TUB and (later) other higher educational institutions: the improvement of contacts with enterprises gives multiplying results in other fields (curriculum , human resources, infrastructure development , technology transfer) as well.

2.2. Justification - Market Research

The start of the project can be justified by different points of view:

- international experience: alternating (sandwich type) courses in engineering exist all over the world, the new (apprenticeship) methodology has success in some countries,

- needs of Hungarian enterprises: the members of the consortium have expressed their devotion (including financial) to this education form, other companies are interested as well. This education form can (in long term) especially fit in the demands of small and medium size enterprises.

- interest of learners: experience of TUB shows that students are very much interested both in modules non-standard in Hungary (management, languages), in more practice oriented education (e.g production-design).

The importance and need of introduction of sandwich type education in Hungary is so obvious, that there was no necessity to deliver more general market research than those described in 1. (Background).

2.3. Institutional Strategic Plan Correlation

A short description of TUB, IEC TUB, the Institutional Strategic Plan (ISP) correlation please find in the relevant Section IV. Appendix.

2.4 The Institutional Strategic Plan

Attached to Section IV.

2.5. Activities

It has to be underlined that the basic activity is the creation of the framework of alternating education (necessary institutions, human resources, Know How) at TU Budapest. The EU partners presents the international experience, Hungarian partners will represent the local specialities, earlier Hungarian experience in the consortium.

Curriculum development and the beginning of education are considered in this project to be the first realisations of the general system. In this sense the companies, organisations involved in these activities represent a much wider community than the consortium members.

The activity package contains three main parts (with the following basic actions):

() introductory phase(setting up structures; general training needs, information, equipment; legal part investigation, certificate, status of apprentice),

() normal functioning of training( special training needs, information, equipments; recruiting procedure; alternating education; evaluations etc.)

() extension

Remark. The project supposes to start the training in September 1996. So the activities ,, will overlap each other. It is possible, because some steps have already been passed for the first modules (eg. identification of needs, the students can receive normal university diploma). The whole normal procedure will be introduced in 1997. To avoid repetitions some activities are listed together (but with indication to group .,, , if it is necessary).

() introductory phase.

1. GENERAL MEETING. The consortium members can contact with all the actors (professors, company managers, tutors, learners etc.) of the French training.

2. STRUCTURES. (3 months 01-03/96, TUB, CNAM). Consequently, we build the three structures of CFA Hungary 2000 in the first step:

1)An Academic Department : with a staff of about six to ten people (TUB employees) for a start, it is set by the coordinator (teachers in charge of main modules /technical and management areas/ and administrative staff).

Their duties are the organisation of the training, students recruitment; teaching organisation for the academic session; follow up of apprentices for the industrial session; assessment and degree award.

2)An Education-Economy Foundation. This institution is an original and essential part of this new engineer school. It is the proper link between academic institutions and industry. Its activity will be co-ordinated with other similar organisations of TUB (eg. technology transfer). The duties of this foundation are the following (non exhaustive list):

to approach firms to develop apprentice recruitment,

to obtain funds for running costs,

to evaluate the apprenticeship inside the host firm,

to assume the juridic and administrative problems about apprenticeship (Contacts with official institutions, ministries),

to look after the practical placement and the integration of the future engineer.

3) International Office. It is organized around a cell of the French National Conservatory of Arts and Trades (CNAM). This cell aims at initiating and orientating higher educational professional training (apprenticeship or continuing form). It guarantees the quality of the training and also of the partner enterprises. This cell has CNAM personal with representatives of INGENIEUR 2000.

The International Office is formed of the CNAM cell and of also the members of the consortium. This office helps the academic department and the foundation; it works with foreign plants and the International Chamber of Commerce and Industry settled in Hungary.

3-6. ALTERNATING EDUCATION. GENERAL FRAMEWORK investigation (...-09/96, carried out by CFA with the participation the of all partners). It contains 3 workshops (organised by unions) on general training needs, information; installation of communication equipments (INTERNET server); reports on legal part investigation, certificate, status of apprentice, financial aspects. (Some (mostly) meeting type activities are listed independently in Timetable 3., from financial viewpoint they are not included in this point.)

() normal functioning of training.

7. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. (01-09/96) Final choice of curricula. The modules (2 or 3 for a start) are built around TUB Faculties (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Faculty of Civil Engineering ) and departments involved in management, language education.

Based on earlier demands at this moment we have concrete demands for the following modules (because of space restrictions we give only some indications of the topics):

Environmental protection. To train Mechanical Engineers who have practical experience, and based on their knowledge and ability in environmental engineering, are able

to enforce the demands of environmental protection;

to develop and operate environment-friendly technologies (sustainable technologies);

to widen and deepen independently their knowledge and abilities in this field .

Steel structures.This module will be built up on the criterion of new professional profiles according to the European System (Eurocode 3 and ESDEP) and to the needs of the main Hungarian steel structure fabricators ( Dunaferr Rt. ).

System and process engineering. Introduction to the control systems, basic design techniques of simple control loops and basic equipment of the control systems. Instrumentation and design of process control systems.

Management and professional language (English, French) modules give an important long term result of the project.

General plans of curricula (basic modules, the aims of each enterprise period and the mode of alternating training scheme) are elaborated by a committee with equal representation of members of economy-industry or institutional area and education area.

TUB professors prepare the courses, syllabi (coordinated by Academic Department of CFA), harmonize with the enterprises. Finalize and legalize the curricula.

8-21. ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO THE TRAINING:

- Apprentice selection, meetings with companies (06-07/96, all partners).

- Academic period for the first groups, Jury of the end of academic period (10/1996- 03/1997)

- Training of tutors /university (10/96), engineers (11/1996) Ingenieur 2000, CNAM, TUB/

- Industrial period (with double tutoring, distance learning), jury of the end (03-09/96)

- Activities of type 5-12 for the new classes.

() extension.

13. Campaign to find new companies and apprenticeship contracts (publications, press conferences, open days), creation of specific education forms (distance learning, multimedia technologies), building of the network for improving apprenticeship training and international links.

2.,22. Establishment of the specifications of communication lines (eg. computer network) between CNAM and CFA Hungary 2000 and other participants. Wide use of Internet communication for interaction with partners and learners, for distribution of learning materials and for "advertisement" of activities is foreseen. The realisation of an appropriate multimedia-based Internet server and the creation of the Home pages of CFA Hungary is an important task from the very beginning.

23. Evaluation 2 of apprenticeship training and new professional training propositions. Reports and seminars. Special emphasis on

- the best duration of training and of enterprise periods, improvement of curriculum.

- financing. At the end of Phare programme, a good knowledge is necessary about the financial resources of the Center, enterprise participation, fees, local communities, professional bodies. The idea is that this kind of training must have a budget mainly with its own resources.

MILESTONES, REPORTS. Three reports are proposed:

1. ( 10-96.) at the end of step . Presentation of structures, curriculum and general rule about learning and apprenticeship. Result of the first recruitment, list of the first associated enterprises.

2. (10-97. ) Results of half -time academic and enterprise training side.

3. (12-98) final report. Results of the graduation of first classes (this is after the end of PHARE period).

RISKS OF THE PROJECT.

The success of this kind of formation depends on the interest of industry. All consortium partners ought to work in this direction, especially with their national companies.

long term financing (industrial, academic session costs, apprentices' salary, etc.)

national and international recognition of high quality of the formation as an apprenticeship (which is different from both initial and continuing training) must be obtained.

2.6 Local credit rating arrangements

TUB introduced a credit system for its Hungarian undergraduate courses in 1992, for the foreign courses in 1995. This system is compatible with ECTS. Thus the results of academic education period of Sandwich can be awarded by credit points, and there is no visible restriction to join this part of education process to CATS. Concerning the apprenticeship period its credit accumulation can be solved based on the principles of future Hungarian CATS for continuing and distance education.

The proposed training form presents in certain sense a synthesis of initial and continuing education. Its credit system can offer an example for other combined curricula.

4.1. Role of the Coordinator

The project will be coordinated by a 4-member committee headed by the coordinator, Dr. Peter Moson vice-dean (on international relations and continuing education) of TUB, head of the TUB Committee on Open & Distance Learning. He participated in several TEMPUS JEPs (French Filial, PANNONIA Open & Distance Learning). He was the project manager of the establishment of the International Secondary School located at the International Education Center TUB. He has published papers on apprenticeship and sandwich-type education.

The other members of the committee are university professors: Dr. Miklós Iványi (Dr.Sc., chairman and member of committees of several international conferences, organisations), Dr. István Loványi (specialist in continuing education, telecommunication, multimedia), Dr. Tamás Matuscsák (former vice-rector, director of the TUB French Filial).

4.2. Role of the partner institutions and enterprises

Technical University of Budapest. Coordinator of the project, organiser of the whole educational experiment, the graduates will receive its diploma. Host of CFA Hungary 2000, the academic part of education.

International partners(CNAM, INGENIEUR 2000): Presentation of experience in sandwich-type training (know how), support in training needs analysis, awareness raising, company relations. Teachers' and tutors' training.

Unions, organisations representing economy (HRTI, EVOSZ, BVA, IBISTRA): Participation in awareness raising action (including workshops), in training needs analysis. Assistance in curriculum development, evaluation process.

Enterprises having apprentices: Participation in the whole educational process, presentation of experience and needs of economy. Financial responsibilities concerning mainly tutorship and apprenticeship costs.

Other partners): contribution to the success of the project mainly by technology transfer and special actions (advanced system engineering, multimedia, communications). The interest of different organisations in the project was far beyond the number of members of consortium.

4.3. Operational Structure

A Steering Committee (containing: coordinator, 2 TUB, 2 foreign, 2 enterprise, 2 union delegates) will be formed by all consortium members for the direction of the project.

The project will be conducted by the coordinator aided by a full time secretary. CNAM contact person will play a special role, as the project is based on the adaptation of their education technology. Before decisions all interested parts of the consortium (especially representatives of economy) will be asked.

The 3 members of the coordinating committee will work in CFA, hosted at the IEC TUB. Each module will be co-chaired by a university module captain and an enterprise specialist (The 3 professional module captains are: Dr. M. Parti (environmental protection), Dr. L. Dunai (steel structures); Dr. I. Loványi (System and process engineering), management - Dr. M.Vágási, English - J.Sárvári, French - Dr. É. Kelemen.)

The education process of apprentices is based on TUB professors and tutors engineers. The academic periods (normally) at TUB, the industrial at the enterprises will be located.

The administration will be carried out by the staff of IEC TUB.

It is a goal to find the synergy with related institutions of TUB (technology transfer unit, open & distance learning center) which are under organisation.

4.4. Monitoring and Evaluation

As the project contains diverse activities a three-level monitoring and evaluation system is offered:

first level done by each organisation participating in a given activity (contact persons, responsible for the given activity). Method : reports (in longer activities at least monthly).

second level done by the coordinator. Processing of reports. Additional special forms of inquiries reaching the enterprises, apprentices.

third level done by the steering committee (twice a year), the general assembly of consortium (once a year).

After setting up structures, working out the details of the background (legal, financial, industrial etc), beginning the training of the first classes the project contains an extension part to the direction of a wider scale of enterprises, organisations, learners.

Another natural dissemination occurs in the Budapest University Association (TUB is its part) and in other technical higher educational institutes of Hungary and the Central-European region.

The continuity is guaranteed by the world-wide demand of economy in sandwich education, the experience and efforts of the international and national members of the consortium, the IEC TUB skills in managing goal oriented projects. It is important to underline that the steps , and the management, language part of present costs once (these are basically covered by PHARE and international co-financing). The costs of professional part are approximately constant and can be covered by company co-financing. Hopefully the feasibility study will present another financial resources (candidates: state - higher education, labour; regional councils; enterprises' tax refunds etc. ).

Institutional Strategic Plan (ISP -TUB) is appended to this section later. First please find here some additional information about TUB.

TU Budapest is the second biggest university in Hungary. Number of students is 11000, number of full and part time teaching personal - 1300, number of other personal is 2100 approximately. The university has 7 faculties covering basic fields of engineering and natural, economic sciences. These are faculties of architecture, civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical, transport, natural and social science. TUB has wide international relations, regular participants of EU programs and good relations to the basic actors of the Hungarian industry, economy.

The International Education Center (IEC) of TUB has long and great experience in managing new educational forms (English, French, German University Filial; postsecondary education programs - IUT; open & distance education, multimedia programs; an International Secondary School, Professors' Guest House etc.). The organisation of the more than 10 years old English Filial is similar to the proposed one of this project (the education is located at the faculties, other activities are carried out commonly by IEC).

- The Development and Strategy Program of the Technical University of Budapest 1994-2000 emphasises the importance of the basic principle of the unity of theory and practice, theoretical background - practical training, based on industrial connections. ( Preamble ).

- Concerning development of the content of training the ISP-TUB refers to the flexibility, dictated by the economy, including harmonic proportions between the obligatory basic materials and optional subjects and professional knowledge and general culture. ( p.2.)

- As methodological and technological aspect, the non-traditional forms of education - distance learning and multimedia methods - should be applied in the future (p.4.)

- The University wants to strengthen its activity in the frame of the European and world wide educational and/or research relations (p.13.)

- The chapter of Funding, at source expansion, refers to external supports, competitions on national and international level and to the role of market demands of actors of the new economic and entrepreneurial structure (p.14.).

The proposed alternating, more practice and needs oriented education form completely fits in ISP -TUB. The following citations from ISP-TUB prove this statement (among others):

- In accordance with its best traditions, the university continues to observe the principle of the unity of theory and practice, the high level theoretical background and the practical training based on industrial connections are of the same importance.

As a strategic goal, the university wants to continuously develop the content and structure of training in harmony with scientific advance and social needs, and to improve the multi-level and multilingual training. (page 1)

- ... expansion of education profile by launching new "marketable" majors, thus intellectual resources of our University will be more economically utilized...(page 2) etc.

- ...introduction of the elements of project based engineering education; preparation of students for team-work during solution of complex tasks.

A methodological and technological development of education (distance learning and multimedia method) should be applied. (page 4).

Project objective:

The aim of this project is the establishment of a new educational form of engineers, the SANDWICH-type apprenticeship, at the Technical University of Budapest.

The training concerns the second period (professional part) of engineering education and contains alternating academic and industrial training cycles. The curricula are determined by the needs of economy and carried out with active participation of industrial partners and their unions. A special emphasis is on the education of management and foreign language communication. New educational technologies (multimedia, distance education) and advanced communication methods (networking) will be widely used.

The KNOW-HOW is offered by EU partners (CNAM, Engineer 2000), the Hungarian participants will represent the local experience, specialities in the project. A new methodological element, the double (university - enterprise) tutoring of apprentices will be developed.

The basic outcomes of the project will be the following:

organisational structure of alternating education (based on feasibility study and containing permanent links between TUB and economy),

curriculum development (professional, management, foreign language modules),

education (from September 1996 continuously).

The need in SANDWICH education is proved by international experience and the demands of Hungarian enterprises. The new educational form based on continuous institutional and personal cooperation of academic and industrial partners will give an important contribution to synergy of higher education and economy with multiplying effects in innovation, technology transfer, other educational co-operations (retraining, continuing education).