Completed project · 2016–2020
Towards Excellence in Engineering Curricula for Dual Education
The project aims to modernise, broaden and internationalise higher education in Germany, Spain, Finland, Italy, Russia, China, Cambodia and India. It also supports intercultural and personal exchange and, in non-EU countries, closer alignment with European higher education developments. Partners identify needs and key sectors and, guided by European experts, modernise curricula, particularly through dual degree programmes integrating company-based learning. A system of continuing professional development and student advisory centres will be established at universities in non-EU countries. Key outputs are new or revised engineering curricula based on a common methodology combining local labour-market analysis and innovative dual provision.
TEEDE develops existing engineering curricula and designs new ones. Innovative teaching methods incorporating the company as a learning venue are developed collaboratively and tested by universities in non-EU countries.
A key innovation is a common methodological toolkit for developing engineering curricula, supporting the long-term emergence of a shared higher education area across Eurasia, particularly in response to increasingly rapid technological change.
Another important aspect is the focus on dual programmes that, as in Germany, recognise companies as fully fledged complementary learning venues rather than involving them only through short placements.
Dual tertiary programmes offer a direct approach to a major educational challenge: recognising prior learning. By combining conventional university education with workplace learning, they provide ideal conditions for recognising previous learning outcomes regardless of where these were acquired.
Innovative dual curricula enable university teachers and companies' training departments to develop a shared understanding of their provision and improve the alignment of theoretical knowledge and practical skills.