Enhancing the Social Characteristics and Public Responsibility of Israeli Teaching through a HEI-Student Alliance (ESPRIT)

This three-year project funded by the TEMPUS programme addresses university management and services for students, as well as equal and transparent access to higher education.
The project’s activities include:

Gathering data to outline the current scope of social engagement in Israeli higher education institutions;
Developing a model for the building of curricula with a social engagement component;
Training specialists in the development of courses with a social engagement element;
Implementing a pilot project on socially involved modules incorporating Bologna objectives (lifelong learning, student centred learning, ECTS, learning outcomes);
Preparing a methodology for the building of a social benchmarking tool for higher education institutions;
Implementing a social benchmark pilot in Israeli higher education institutions;
Developing new modalities for the student-higher education institutional relationship;
Introducing comprehensive quality measures accompanying the project from its onset and ensuring ongoing compliance with its objectives.

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