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TREE

Network: Teaching and Research in Engineering in Europe (TREE)

Duration: 36 months (Oct. 2004 – Sept. 2007)

Coordinator: Università degli Studi di Firenze (IT)

Partners: The TREE network counts about 114 members

Role EuroPACE: Coordination of a Special Interest Group on New ICT based forms of continuing professional development

Summary: As a natural development of the previous Erasmus Thematic Network E4 (Enhancing Engineering Education in Europe), a new Thematic Network TREE (Teaching and Research in Engineering in Europe) was set up, which will take the maximum advantage of the precious work already done and of the expertise gained within E4. TREE will develop a more targeted approach in order to identify tools for the main challenges of the today’s Engineering Education (EE): Tuning Educational Structures, Attractiveness of the European Higher Education Area, links between Education and Research, and Sustainability tools for EE.


Activities: TREE will be articulated into many Special Interest Groups which trace back to four main activity lines:
  • the tuning line (new curricula for the two-tier structure of higher education, tools for quality assessment and assurance, accreditation and extension of ECTS)
  • the education and research line (status and promotion of doctoral studies, role of research activity in EE, value of research oriented project work)
  • the attractiveness of EE line (for young people, especially women, for extra-EU students, by special initiatives such as joint/double degrees)
  • the sustainability line (sustain EE institutions by, e.g. developing continuing education, and/or open and distant learning opportunities, but also studying ways to make valuable tools, identified during the TN, self-sustainable)


URL: http://www3.unifi.it/tree/

Supported by: EC-DG Education and Training: Socrates/Erasmus Thematic Network
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