Sri Lanka, country with many sites and scenes bottled up into a small island, with great biodiversity, huge cultural heritage and magnificent people was a place of holding the IInd project meeting. Participants were hosted by University of Peradeniya in Kandy.
Prof. S.B. Weerakoon, project coordinator of University of Peradeniya, opened project meeting with a welcome speech and introduction of participating universities. Acquaintance has been followed by the address from Prof. Upul Dissanayake, Vice-Chancellor of UoP, emphasizing project significance for Sri Lankan partner universities.
On this meeting Prof. Martin Oldenburg presented Report on Best Practices, including overview of courses at participating universities, prevailing form of teaching and methods, tools and teaching materials in use.
The Report on Best Practices suggests several improvements to be developed in the project:
- implementation of design, operation and simulation software into teaching process;
- development of lab equipment base;
- wider use of mathematical-statistical methods in teaching process;
- use of e-learning tools;
- group works and monitoring exercises in companies for several days.
Also Ms Natalia Fomina presented first draft of Needs Analysis Report, reflecting information submitted by the partners on existing curricula.
In point of Generic curricula development Prof. Harsha presented the first draft of generic curricula for Water Supply and Wastewater treatment courses.
Work meeting ended with a discussion of following summer staff and students mobility actions and next meeting in Kyiv. The tasks were gotten and participants we looking forward to next gathering.
Serhii Shmyhol, sergioshyhol@gmail.com
