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Consortium members :

Universities :

• Université Pierre Mendes France (coordinator),
• Savonia University of Applied Sciences (Kuopio, Finland),
• La Sapenzia University (Rome, Italy),
• International School of Management (Dortmund, Germany),
• St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (Russia),
• St Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Russia),
• Samara State Technical University (Russia),
• Samara State University of Economics,
• Kazakh National Technical University named after K.I.Satpaev, Institute of Energy and Communication in Almaty (Kazakhstan),
• Kazakh Economic University,

Companies:

• E. ON AG (Düsseldorf, Germany)
• RWE-Westfalen-Weser-Ems Dortmund, Germany),
• AIESEC,
• S. A. Integra-Management (Moscow, Russia),
• Schneider Electric (France).

Duration :

15.01.2009 - 14.01.2012

Budget :

1,113,987 euros

Objective:

Develop new "Ingénieurs Economistes" Masters courses and diplomas at technical and economics universities in Russia (St Petersburg, Samara) and Kazakhstan (Almaty), decompartmentalizing the knowledge taught and the professional skills required, to meet initial and continuing training needs for sustainable development management in companies and organizations in the energy and related industries, in line with new international conditions and standards.

Description :

The aim of this project is to touch on a sector of great importance to the Russian and Kazakh economy and industry - energy. It was a shared idea to create a training program that could renovate the old, and sometimes outdated, approach to technologies and teaching methods, and bring the Russian and Kazakh energy industries into line with the realities of today's sustainable development issues. These industries need the new skills required for engineers and managers in charge of running projects at the various levels of the organizations and territories concerned. In particular, we need to develop multi-disciplinary training for engineers and economists, overcoming the institutional and cultural barriers between engineering universities (technical or polytechnic) and economics and management universities.

Results obtained :

All in all, in line with the objective, the key result achieved was the development and validation by the 11 universities of a common pedagogical architecture for the 7 different Masters courses (4 Russian and 3 Kazakh, spread over 3 economics universities and 4 technical universities, in the 3 geographical clusters (Samara, Saint Petersburg and Almaty) hosting the course modules of the "Ingénieurs Economistes de l'Energie et du Développement Durable" (InEco-E2D) program, including teaching modules by the 4 European universities.

The objective of an integrated system of Masters programs in this field has been fully achieved, through the 3 major teaching blocks or modules created in common in the 7 Masters :

• module U1 (15 ECTS) = additional technical courses for students (M1) from universities of economics, taught by KZ and RU technical universities by geographical cluster
• module U2 (15 ECTS) = additional economics/management courses for engineering students (M1) from Technical Universities, taught by the KZ and RU Universities of Economics by geographical cluster
• module U3 (18 ECTS) = specialty courses in energy and sustainable development economics/management for M2 students from economics and technical universities, taught by the 4 European universities, (choice of 2 by each student)

The Masters are accredited by the Ministries from partner countries, they all opened either in September 2010 or September 2011 at the 7 Russian or Kazakh universities, and a total of 95 students (M1 and M2) have enrolled.

Visit university-business cooperation was promoted throughout the course of the project, but in a proactive manner and essentially concentrated in the joint efforts of the project coordinator, the teacher-coordinator for Finec University, and the Schneider Electric representative who was very much involved, while the other companies and consortium members kept to the minimum necessary to meet the project's objectives in this respect: pilot case study operations by students with local energy companies or organizations, short internships for teachers and long internships for students in European companies, lectures or participation in a few debates by company professionals (French, Russian, Italian, German) in St Petersburg, Almaty and Samara on the job market, the evolution of skills expected by companies, the rationale behind the InEco-E2D master's degrees created.

What's more, the size of the consortium and the nature of the project themselves already had a significant multiplier effect.

Here, the project has met the already ambitious Tempus 4 objectives for greater impact on the partner countries.

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