Full name of the project: University Teachers’ Certification Centres: Innovative Approach to Promotion Teaching Excellence

Short name of the project: UTTERLY

Priority: Development of higher education potential

Duration of the project: 15.01.2021 — 14 .01.2023

EU funding program: European Neighborhood Instrument (Erasmus+: КА2 CBHE)

Target group: institutions of higher education, teachers of institutions of higher education

Grant recipient: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Partnership:

• Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
• Bayreuth University, Germany
• University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
• Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Ukraine
• Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Ukrain
• Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine
• Lutsk National Technical University
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
• Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav, Ukraine
• Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, Ukraine
• Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
• Union of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine, Ukraine

 

The aim: to contribute the modernisation of higher education systems in Ukraine by introducing universities centres of teaching excellence for promotion of European educational innovations by professional university teachers’ certification.

Specific objectives:

1. to modernise the formal system of university teachers’ professional development and certification in Ukraine by establishing of 9 independent Centres of Teaching Excellence, as well as creating their network, focusing on enhancing quality of university teaching;
2. to introduce the professional university teachers’ certification programs based on European good practices and education innovations for ensuring teaching excellence;
3. to develop and pilot a new teaching excellence curriculum based on teaching excellence framework, including courses syllabi and MOOCs which are permeable with education needs of academic communities in Ukraine and resulting in professional certification of university teachers.

Expected results:

1. Benchmarking research conducted.
2. Strategy and model for Teaching Exellence developed
3. Selected staff retrained in EU.
4. CTEs offices opened
5. Professional standards for university teachers developed.
6. Regulation for teacher attestation improved
7. Teaching excellence curriculum developed
8. Evaluation methodology for certification created
9. Trainees for pilot groups enrolled.
10. Certification programs accredited.