TPM1 - Kick-off Meeting: 21-22 November

The first meeting for the BUDS  project took place on November 21st -22nd  at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and marked the beginning of this three-year project. Participants from the five partner universities (Tor Vergata University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Eastern Finland, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and University of Antwerp) met to put the basis of the new alliance. The partners  have reviewed the project activities and set the framework for a fruitful future collaboration, discussing  the administrative part of the project (monitoring, dissemination and evaluation activities, and financial aspects), upcoming deadlines and activities, divided responsibilities and clarified some key points

 

C1 - Short-Term Joint Staff Training Event: 20-23 November

The first session started on November 20th with the teaching staff involved in a Contents development and methodology sharing meeting that lasted 3 days focusing on Digital Education, Quality assurance in Blended Education as well as Educational video creation and Intellectual property rights. Among the participants to the short-term joint staff training event:


Corrado Cerruti – Project coordinator, MSc Business Administration Director and Yerun Treasurer (University of Tor Vergata)
Luc Van de Poele - Head of the Department of Education (University of Antwerp)
Carlos Delgado Kloos - Vice President for Strategy and Digital Education (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Juho Pesonen – Head of Research (eTourism) at the Centre for Tourism Studies (University of Eastern Finland)
Carlos Alario - Deputy Vice President for Strategy and Digital Education (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Tim Huygh – Research Associate at Department of Management Information Systems (University of Antwerp)
Mauro Castelli – Assistant Professor at Information Management School (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)


Video creation training was supported by Raul Aguilera - Unit for Educational Technologies and Teaching Innovation together with Jesus Gamo and Jorge Diaz - Audiovisual Team, Unit for Educational Technologies and Teaching Innovation (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).