Contact Information

Kārlis Valtiņš
Project Manager
Tel: +371 67089105
karlis.valtins@rtu.lv

What is the STREAM project?

University Student Capacity Building: Towards Readiness for Sustainable Development-Oriented Regional Job Market / STREAM

In the MENA region the unemployment rate among HE graduates is among the highest in the world as a direct result of the mismatch between education outcomes and expectations of the labor market. With the fast-evolving pattern of the market-needs as a result of revolutionary technologies such as Industry 4.0, AI, robotics and machine learning, a new shift in human resource requirements map is at hand leaving HEIs with an inevitable time-pressing challenge to adjust the learning processes to yield particular competencies that expand way beyond the technical knowledge that has been the focus for many decades. It is thus the aim of this project is to develop a generation of globally-exposed HE graduates, equipped with essential character, social and cognitive skills blended with academic competencies, with a higher degree of readiness for the fast-evolving community and job market, and who are capable to integrate effectively in multicultural, diverse eco-system. Hence, Competence-tailored Student Journey Map that blends academic and academic-complimentary competencies during the student lifetime is introduced. A pilot set of competence-tailored 35 short- and 10 long-term extracurricular activities & “quests” are designed and programmed into the LMS & SIS of partner HEIs, along with 35 courses (120 ECTS) in Engineering and ICT restructured to align with SDGs in competency-based format, targeting the full envisioned picture of the future “Global Citizen” possessing competencies that were clearly identified via an exhaustive gap analysis developed at the beginning of the project. A target of at least 60 students at each of the 7 partner HEIs in Egypt, Jordan and Algeria is planned. Student-Stakeholders Engagement Portal, where employers and students share their profiles and where both have open arena to engage in internships, summer jobs, capacity building programs is essential in the proposed integrative (academic/extracurricular/industry engagement) approach.

Work Packages

Egypt-Japan University of science

WP1: Gap Analysis

• WP1.1: (Participant) Survey report on current students’ qualifications.
• WP1.2: (Participant) Survey report of regional market-needed graduates’ competencies.
• WP1.3: (Participant) Survey report and gap analysis of the global HE learning approaches for regional market compatibility.

WP2: Design & Develop of Building System

• WP2.1: (Participant) Design of Student Journey Map: competencies time- and scope-analysis
• WP2.2: (Leader) Design of Student Journey Map: Mapping to Curriculum & Extracurricular activity.
• WP2.3: (Participant) Design of students quests towards “Global Citizenship” Regional Inter-university Blending.
• WP2.4: (Participant) Design of Students quests: Inter-University Blending.

WP3: Build Regional Capacity

• WP3.1: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC): Establishment, bylaws & Advisory Board.
• WP3.2: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre – (SEEC): Operational Manual/Service portfolio.
• WP3.3: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC): Establishment of Student Stakeholders Engagement Portal & stakeholders’ database.
• WP3.4: I (Participant) integration into academic system.
• WP3.5: (Participant) Training for Skills & Employability Enhancement center staff.
• WP3.6: (Participant) Orientation for faculty towards competency-based learning system.

WP4: Implementation & Validation

• WP4.1: (Participant) Implementation of Updated courses.
• WP4.2: (Participant) Implementation of Quests and extra-curricular activities.
• WP4.3: (Participant) Offering of Character-building personal skills training modules.
• WP4.4: (Participant) Offering of entrepreneurship training modules and regional challenges

WP5: Quality Assurance and quality control system

• WP5.2: (Participant) Quality Control

WP6: Dissemination & Sustainability

• WP6.1: (Participant) Dissemination Strategy
• WP6.2: (Participant) Conferences, workshops and seminars
• WP6.3: (Participant) Digital outreach campaign
• WP6.4: (Participant) Financial Sustainability
• WP6.5: (Participant) Technical and Institutional Sustainability

WP7: Project Management

• WP7.2: (Participant) WP-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by WP leaders.
• WP7.3: (Participant) Institution-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by Institution Representative

Nile University

WP1

• WP1.1: (Participant) Survey report on current students’ qualifications.
• WP1.2: (Participant) Survey report of regional market-needed graduates’ competencies.

WP2

• WP2.1: (Leader) Design of Student Journey Map: competencies time- and scope-analysis.
• WP2.2: (Participant) Design of Student Journey Map: Mapping to Curriculum & Extracurricular activity.
• WP2.3: (Participant) Design of students quests towards “Global Citizenship” Regional Inter-university Blending.
• WP2.4: (Participant) Design of Students quests: Inter-University Blending.
• WP2.6: (Participant) Development of Character-building & Entrepreneurial Skills modules.

WP3

• WP3.1: (Leader) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC): Establishment, bylaws & Advisory Board.
• WP3.2: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre – (SEEC): Operational Manual/Service portfolio.
• WP3.3: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC): Establishment of Student-Stakeholders Engagement Portal & stakeholders’ database.
• WP3.4: (Participant) Integration into academic system.
• WP3.5: (Participant) Training for Skills & Employability Enhancement center staff.
• WP3.6: Orientation for faculty towards competency-based learning system.

WP4

WP5

• WP5.1: (Participant) Quality Plan & Quality Assurance
• WP5.2: (Participant) Quality Control

WP6

• WP6.2: (Participant) Conferences, workshops and seminars
• WP6.3: (Participant) Digital outreach campaign
• WP6.4: (Leader) Financial Sustainability
• WP6.5: (Participant) Technical and Institutional Sustainability

Technical University of Cartagena

WP2

Design & Development of Competence-Building System
UPCT team will lead WP2: The Design & Development of (Academic-Complementary Competence-Building System).
UPCT has developed and implemented and ambitious program on competence based-learning. All the titles at UPCT have incorporated the “7-UPCT competences” fostering the acquisition of competence by the students, an aspect which is vital for competitiveness and employability. This model includes core sustainable development competences and also entrepreneurship competences.

Dresden University of Applied Sciences

WP2.5

Designing a Summer School
(Ref.Nr. 2.5)
Summer schools shall be planned to host students in a camp-format gatherings (to be completed by 14/1/2022)
• they shall be trained to particular skills, conduct mutual activities and are exposed to character-building trainings and workshops.
• The deliverable is composed of three stages:
– Portfolio for a set of summer schools that includes all the necessary information and materials & programmed and added to the Student Journey Map database for students to design their journey accordingly
– A connectivity matrix associating target competences with the designed quests, each student is required to take for his/her academic degree.
– this shall be programmed into the Learning Management System and the Student Information System to keep track of the progress, not only in the academic track but also on the competencies track.
We envisage:
1. an online format that can be adapted between all partners,
2. where the students will have the choice to choose different learning modules and projects throughout the project life-cycle.

WP2.6

Development of Character-building & Entrepreneurial Skills modules
(Ref.Nr. 2.6)
2 character-building training modules and 2 entrepreneurship skills development modules (5 ECTS each) (by 14/2/2022)
• to be used by the partner country universities in their SEECs and the summer schools
• includes all training portfolio including the presentations, case studies and challenges for student contestants for the partner country universities
What we would like to achieve 1. Use the existing content of each partner university 2. Combine these contents into new modules 3. Develop 1-2 case studies which contain and use these learning content

WP6

Dissemination Strategy
(Ref.Nr. 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5)
Overall aim of WP6
• To disseminate the project activities & outcomes to assure the maximum outreach is achieved and to infiltrate other universities and regions
• Dissemination activities to target two main groups: students and employers/industry
• Dissemination channels: digital media (students), workshops & seminars (employers)

We want
• each partner to receive an advertising package to promote themselves and the project.
• Our goal is to show that we stand for entrepreneurial skills.

1. Development of Dissemination Strategy (by 14/4/2021)
• a detailed time- and work-plan for dissemination activities for the entire project.
• the strategy provides guidance and direction for all project partners with external stakeholders.
• it covers all WPs activities and has a strong link to project sustainability after the project lifetime.
• it describes the objectives, planned target groups and channels as well as indicators to measure the performance of the planned dissemination activities.

2. Organization of 2 major dissemination workshops/seminars (by 14/11/2023)

1. to present the competence gap based on the results of the gap analysis (WP1) & present roadmap to bridge gap and the expectations and requirements of each target group
2. organized by WUZZ after implementing the project activities and achieving outcomes to present those to the entire community
3. Conducting a digital outreach-campaign (by 14/2/2023), including
• social media campaign to provide regular updates of the project activities
• A project website containing events, activities, surveys, outcomes etc. of the project, linked to participating university websites
1. With the workshops we will increase visibility.
2. The social media campaign should take country specifics into account and also have a lasting effect after the campaign.
4. Conducting a digital outreach-campaign (by 14/2/2023), including
A “Student-Stakeholders Engagement Portal” that links students with employers
• Platform hosts the profiles of different potential employers and the profile of the university students to couple both worlds together:
• for students to book internships, summer jobs,
• for employers and community sector representatives
to recruit interns, summer trainees, summer part time student employees.
We would like to look at existing solutions at the partners and use them whenever possible.

WP7

• WP7.1: (Participant) Project-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by coordinator
• WP7.2: (Leader) WP-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by WP leaders
• WP7.3: (Participant) Institution-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by Institution Representative.

Al Alfi Foundation

WP1

• WP1.1: (Participant) Survey report on current students’ qualifications
• WP1.2: (Leader) Survey report of regional market-needed graduates’ competencies

WP2

• WP2.4: (Participant) Design of Students quests: Inter-University Blending

WP4

• WP4.5: (Leader) Validation with External stakeholders and employers

WP5

• WP5.1: (Participant) Quality Plan & Quality Assurancey
• WP5.2: (Participant) Quality Control

WP6

• WP6.2: (Leader) Conferences, workshops and seminars
• WP6.3: (Participant) Digital outreach campaign
• WP6.4: (Participant) Financial Sustainability
• WP6.5: (Participant) Technical and Institutional Sustainability

WP7

• WP7.2: (Participant) WP-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by WP leaders
• WP7.3: (Participant) Institution-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by Institution Representative

University of Mostaganem

WP1

• WP1.1: (participant) survey report on current student’s qualification
• WP1.2: (participant) survey report of regional market-needed graduate’s competencies

WP2

• WP2.1: (participant) Design of Student Journey Map: competencies time- and scope-analysis
• WP2.2: (participant) Design of Student Journey Map:Mapping to curriculum &extracurricular activity.
• WP2.3: (participant) Design of Students quests towards “Global citizenship“ Regional Inter-university Blending
• WP2.4: (participant) Design of Students quests:Inter-University Blending
• WP2.5: (participant) Design of International academic complementary (summer school)

WP3

• WP3.1: (participant) Skills &Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC) Establishment bylaws& Advisory Board
• WP3.3: (participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC) Establishment of student-stakeholders Engagement Portal& stakeholders database
• WP3.4: (Participant) Integration into academic system.
• WP3.5: (Participant) Training for Skills &Employability Enhancement center staff
• WP3.6: (Participant) Orientation (Participant)for Faculty towards competency –based learning system

WP4

• WP4.1: (Participant) Implementation of Update courses.
• WP4.2: (Leader) Implementation of quests and extra-curricular activities.
• WP4.3: (Participant) offering of character-building personal skills training modules
• WP4.4: (Participant) offering of entrepreneurship training modules and regional challenges

WP5

• WP5.1: (Participant) quality plan & quality Assurance
• WP5.2: (Participant) quality control

WP6

• WP6.1: (Participant) Dissemination strategy
• WP6.2: (Participant) Conferences. Workshops and seminars
• WP6.3: (Participant) Digital outreach campaign
• WP6.4: (Participant) Financial Sustainability
• WP6.5: (Participant) Technical and Institutional Sustainability

WP7

• WP7.1: (Participant) Project-level coordination Project Management and reporting by coordinator
• WP7.2: (Participant) WP- level coordination Project Management and reporting by WP Leaders
• WP7.3: (Participant) Institution-level coordination Project Management and reporting by Institution Representative

South Valley University

WP3

(M12 – at SVU): video conference back-end processing hardware and software (computer servers, network hardware and software)

WP4

(M18): Virtual engagement, communication & shared environment for project-based activities (virtual classroom audio-video system, video conferencing facilities, smart boards with shared network capabilities)

WP5

• WP5.1: Quality Plan & Quality Assurance
• WP5.2: Quality Control

WP7

• WP7.2: WP-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by WP leaders
• WP7.3: Institution-level coordination/Project Management and reporting by Institution Representative

Riga Technical University

Project coordinator

Moreover, RTU as the project coordinator will plan and implement all the necessary activities and steps that assure the appropriate implementation of the project activities within time and matching the targeted workplan along with all the administrative requirements and reporting to EACEA. During the project’s lifetime, the project team will work in a close relation to make sure the project’s activities are adhered to and the project is running impeccably.

WP1

“Gap Analysis” (Preparation) Be leading the WP1 (Preparation) – “Gap Analysis”, which more specifically includes responsibility to conduct the survey for identifying the current state of the graduates qualifications and competencies in EU and surveying of the current and future market trends and needs in terms of skills and competencies of the graduates in EU as well lead the conclusive gap analysis (WP1.3).

WP5

Quality Plan
The WP5 (Quality Plan) – “Quality Assurance and quality control system established and implemented”. The two main activities of the quality plan are:
1. Quality Control which is assessing the quality of outcomes and their conformity with required time and financial plans and
2. Quality Assurance which is concerned with setting up procedures to follow in advance in order to ensure the quality of the outcomes.

University of Tlemcen

WP1

• WP1.3: (Participant) Survey report and gap analysis of the global HE learning approaches for regional market compatibility.

WP2

• WP2.1: (Participant) Design of Student Journey Map: competencies time- and scope-analysis.
• WP2.2: (Participant) Design of Student Journey Map: Mapping to Curriculum & Extracurricular activity.
• WP2.3: (Participant) Design of students quests towards “Global Citizenship” Regional Inter-university Blending.
• WP2.5: (Participant) Design of international academic complimentary (Summer school.
• WP2.6: (Participant) Development of Character-building & Entrepreneurial Skills modules.

WP3

• WP3.1: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC): Establishment, bylaws & Advisory Board.
• WP3.2: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre – (SEEC): Operational Manual/Service portfolio.
• WP3.3: (Participant) Skills & Employability Enhancement Centre (SEEC): Establishment of Student-Stakeholders Engagement Portal & stakeholders’ database.
• WP3.4: (Leader) Integration into academic system.

WP4

• WP4.1: (Participant) Implementation of Updated courses.
• WP4.2: (Participant) Implementation of Quests and extra-curricular activities
• WP4.3: (Participant) Offering of Character-building personal skills training modules.
• WP4.4: (Participant) Offering of entrepreneurship training modules and regional challenges
• WP4.5: (Participant) Validation with External stakeholders and employers.

WP5

• WP5.1: (Participant) Quality Plan & Quality Assurance
• WP5.2: (Participant) Quality Control

WP6

• WP6.2: (Participant) Conferences, workshops and seminars
• WP6.3: (Participant) Digital outreach campaign
• WP6.4: (Participant) Financial Sustainability
• WP6.5: (Participant) Technical and Institutional Sustainability

WP7