In November 2013, the European Commission selected for funding the project "New Model of the Third Cycle in Engineering Education due to Bologna Process in BY, RU, UA" – NETCENG, in which our university is the main coordinator from Ukraine. The project will last for 3 years and will operate during 2014-2016.
The new project TEMPUS of Faculty of Aircraft and Space Systems NETCENG is financed through the Interregional programme of the European Neighborhood and Partnership and has as its priority the creation and reformation of educational programs of new model of the third cycle in engineering education due to Bologna process in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. 22 organizations and universities from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Lithuania became partners of NETCENG project: Brunel University (London, UK), Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Engineering, Consulting and Management Office (Berlin, Germany), Belarusian National Technical University and Belarusian State University, JSC "Engineering Bureau Kamerton" (Minsk, Belarus), Polotsk State University (Novopolotsk, Belarus), Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Kazan State Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev (Kazan, Russia), Omsk State Technical University (Omsk, Russia), Ryazan State Radio Engineering University (Ryazan, Russia), Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia), State Research and Production Space Center (Samara, Russia), the Association of technical universities (Moscow, Russia), Cherkasy State Technological University (Cherkasy, Ukraine) National Aviation University (Kyiv, Ukraine), NTUU "KPI", State enterprise "Southern" Engeneering Bureau (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine).
At the starting conference of the project, held 3-4 March in Lithuania, in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, each member of the project presented its university and participated in the discussion of the major problems relating to the filling of new postgraduate and doctoral programmes. At the end of the conference, participants adopted a starting resolution, a plan of organizational activities and events and a budget of the project.
New model of the third cycle in engineering education that was mentioned above is designed for postgraduate and graduate students, teachers, researchers and administrative personnel of universities and aims at the introduction of the pilot programmes of doctoral studies in engineering in accordance with Bologna process and with the principles of Salzburg and Bucharest forums in the targeted universities.
More specifically, this model focuses on the development, implementation and accreditation of new educational programmes, including the application of the European system of transfer and accumulation of credits concerning training programs for native postgraduate students and doctoral candidates. To achieve this goal the project plans to establish new structured doctoral and postgraduate programmes in target sphere according to the requirements of the job market and develop innovative environment for teaching and learning under such programmes. We plan to create educational and technical environment for innovative teaching and learning of disciplines that match the new educational programmes. This innovative environment includes a common web platform, classrooms, laboratories and research summer schools. All these measures will be used to support future researchers, postgraduate and doctoral students in the internal and international job markets, which will help to achieve new qualitative results in science and technology.
In our university the work on the project began long before its official launch with the development of the offer and the main ideas of the project. In February 2014, an order was given throughout the University and direction throughout Faculty of Aircraft and Space Systems, which appointed the coordinators and approved the working group of the project, defined and adopted the plan of activities for the project. The working group included: the dean of FASS O.V. Zbrutsky – chief project coordinator from NTUU "KPI"; associate professor of the Department of theoretical mechanics O.P. Marynoshenko – project coordinator; 1st category engineer of the Department of theoretical mechanics L.V. Stetsyuk; assistant of the Department of instruments and aircraft control systems R.V. Karnaushenko; postgraduate student of the Department of instruments and aircraft control systems A.S.Mischuk.
March 25, 2014 a meeting on the project was held, during which problems of analyzing the structure and content of the existing postgraduate training programs were discussed. Information about the project and its news can be found on the project web-pages: http://netceng.kpi.ua and http://netceng.eu