18-22 of April, 2016 CESIE was pleased to host “Training of the Trainers” activity within the SEHSI project (Regional Sustainable Development on the Basis of Eco-Human Synergetic Interaction) funded by TEMPUS programme of the European Commission.
The academic staff and sustainable development experts from business and public organisations from Ukrainian and other European universities were actively engaged in a range of activities based on competence profiles including sessions, workshops, discussions, visits & simulations aiming to support the development of Regional Sustainable Development (RSD)curriculum.
CESIE shared their knowledge and experience in different training and teaching methodologies as well as sustainable development practices. The visiting SEHSI professors and practitioners were actively involved in activities linked to collaborative learning methodologies to be used to enhance creative thinking skills of architecture and engineering students in partner countries of the project. CESIE shared its experience in projects and initiatives aimed at furthering innovative entrepreneurial regions of Europe and fostering youth responsibility to become agents of positive change in regional development. Moreover the best practices of the different social local initiatives in the field of urban sustainable development and fostered the discussions on business role in advanced infrastructures for sustainable development of Palermo and Sicily were presented by such organisations as “PUSH” and “Mobilita Palermo”.
Besides the sessions held at the office of CESIE, the academic staff visited the University of Palermo where they got introduced to the sustainable development projects in Sicily, exchanged good practices and started partnerships with the professors and architects from Palermo.
CESIE is concerned that training through the reciprocal development of human resources, mutual understanding between local and visiting academics, enhanced networking opportunities among higher education institutions contributed to the development of innovative curriculum for training new generation of engineers/architects as agents of positive changes in regional development based on synergetic eco-human interaction and advanced technologies.
Till December 2016 partners will finalise all project activities and evaluate possibility to adapt gained EU experience and practices on national level contributing to the development of sustainable region.
More information about the project and activities is presented on the project website: www.sehsi.com.
For further information please contact Jelena Mazaj: jelena.mazaj@cesie.org
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