The SEED4NA project

Objectives

The main aim of the SEED4NA project was to improve the quality of higher education in North Africa in the fields of SDI and EO, and to enhance its relevance for the labour market and society.

The project specifically aimed to:

  1. develop the required knowledge, skills and competencies on SDI & EO within partner universities;
  2. help introducing modern SDI & EO courses in engineering and agriculture/forestry studies;
  3. implement supporting relevant vocational training programmes;
  4. help partner universities to support the development of SDI in their country and
  5. promote a European approach to SDI & EO.

 

Work packages

The goal of WP1 was to conduct the necessary surveys and to perform an analysis of collected information aiming to create environment and design in a systematic way the specifications for the SDI and EO (with emphasis on Copernicus) project or baseline curriculum.  For the design of curriculum, the Curriculum Design Tool of GI-N2K will be used. Curriculum design actions include: the design of modules, courses or lectures/assignment; the number of ECTS in case of academic education/training; the workload in case of VET; the definition of pre- and post-requisites; and finally, the desired learning outcomes.

Activities in WP1 were organized in four tasks :

  • T1.1 – Current status at partner universities
  • T1.2 – Current status of learning material from program countries
  • T1.3 – Requirement analysis
  • T1.4 – Specification of project curriculum

The goal of the WP2 was to develop the content of the curricula and the supporting learning material to be included in the project curriculum as specified in D1.4-D1.5 and to prepare the partner universities in providing courses for students at HEI’s and for professionals in the frame of VET initiatives according to their needs and to ensure tools for conducting the courses (equipment) is operational.   

Activities in WP2 were organized in four tasks :

  • T2.1 – Development of project curriculum
  • T2.2 – Vocational education training courses development
  • T2.3 – SDI & EO lab equipmet purchase/installation
  • T2.4 – Training of teachers

The goal of WP3 was that each partner university introduced courses (or parts thereof) from the project curriculum developed under WP2 in its own curricula. In practice, the goal of this WP primarily was to implement and conduct the developed and localized project curriculum at each partner country university/faculty in third year of the project lifetime.

The WP3 was subdivided into four tasks:

  • T3.1 – Localisation of curriculum
  • T3.2 – Implementation of local curricula
  • T3.3 – Running courses to students
  • T3.4 – Evaluation of implementation

The goal of Work Package 4 (WP4): Dissemination & Exploitation was the efficient dissemination of project results and information about SDI and EO in partner countries. This dissemination raised the general knowledge about SDI and EO in the target sectors and increased awareness about the project and its results within its main target groups (students, institutions professionals and external universities).

WP4 was organized in the following tasks:

  • T4.1 – Development of a Communication and Dissemination plan
  • T4.2 – Dissemination of project results
  • T4.3 – VET courses execution
  • T4.4 – Project exploitation and sustainability

The goal of Work Package 5 (WP5) Management was to ensure efficient and smooth management and coordination, both among the partners and between the project partnership and the EACEA, and of all the project activities leading towards the successful execution of the project in accordance with the defined goals. 

Activities in WP5 were organized in following tasks:

  • T5.1 – Project management structure establishment
  • T5.2 – Project coordination, administration and monitoring
  • T5.3 – National stakeholder coordination

The aims of WP6 were: (1) to assure that the project processes and results will meet the specific project objectives and that they contribute to the wider project objectives and (2) to systematically perform quality evaluation of project outputs and outcomes, to answer the questions about the effectiveness and efficiency of the project activities. In addition, the activities will also support the Project Management by providing status reports addressing the expected impact of the project results. The WP also assessed whether the project results (outputs and outcomes) were acceptable in terms of usefulness and usability for reaching the major project objectives, and thus whether the overall quality of the project was high.

The execution of WP6 was organized according to the following tasks :

  • T6.1 – Development of a Quality plan
  • T6.2 – Evaluation of progress and results
  • T6.3 – Monitoring success indicators

Partners

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

Leuven, Beligum 

Glenn Vancauwenberghe – Project coordinator

HOCHSCHULE BOCHUM

Bochum, Germany

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE

Enschede, Netherlands

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB – Faculty of Geodesy

Zagreb, Croatia

NOVOGIT AB

Jonaker, Sweden

ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY

Alexandria, Egypt

FAYOUM UNIVERSITY

Fayoum, Egypt

UNIVERSITE IBNOU ZOHR A AGADIR

Agadir, Morocco

INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE ET VETERINAIRE HASSAN II

Rabat, Morocco

CARTHAGE UNIVERSITY

Amiclar Carthage, Tunisia

UNIVERSITE OF JENDOUBA

Jendouba, Tunisia

Regional Centre of Remote Sensing of North Africa States

Tunis, Tunisia

ORAN  UNIVERSITY

Es Senia, Algeria

University of science and technology houari boumediene

Bab Ezzouar, Algeria