Armenia and Russia have a long tradition of working with part-time students combining work and learning. Ministries of Education and Science of the two countries put a great attention and focus mainly on the dual model of education for full-time students. This decision was very fruitful for the development of university-enterprise cooperation. However, opposite to this we see many students working at various companies and work places who are not involved in the systematic institutional relations with dual education due to various reasons: companies and universities are not ready to develop dual education systematically, it is not so easy for HEIs to find real partners for a group of students and so on. We offer to develop a new opportunity - flexible WBL Framework, which is suitable for any student who combines learning and work at any enterprise and could be developed by any university without special approval from authorities. That is the main reason why our consortium tries to find funding and partners to obtain professional expertise and gain knowledge and skills of creation of WBL for the study programme delivery in different subjects. The CBHE project of Erasmus+ programme is the ideal instrument for our project where we can 1) find professional expertise from those who created already or are at the stage of completion of real WBL Integrated Curricula, 2) capacitate our teachers, administrations and employers with the best knowledge and skills how to develop a new win-win model for working students, 3) obtain contribution from the Programme Country partners where more than 200 WBL projects have been completed http://www.net-wbl.eu/ is invaluable, 4) show our authorities the positive outcomes of making teaching and learning more flexible and accessible to receive further support and save the part-time and extramural education5) facilitate and support the transfer and adaption of the European practice of WBL implementation

IIn Kazakhstan and Russia the term “employability” is not listed in official documentation, such as legal regulations, reforms etc; not formulated as an strategic goal of the universities; not framed as an concept including a set of competences, skills and attitudes and no practical instruction or recommendations on how to implement it is given. Universities in KZ and PF are obliged to include certain key competence modules into the study programs which are predefined by the Ministries of Education, but normally do not pursue a holistic competence model integrated into the educational program and are running as a common thread through the university. Consequently, the topic of employability is not incorporated into the strategy of the universities and hence doesn`t have the appropriate high priority as defined in the Bologna Declaration. Following the finding of the problem analysis the core aim of the project is to place the issue of employability on universities` agenda and to develop concepts taking into account all the variety and peculiarity of the each partner university.Main steps to pursue the aim and obtain the project outputs and results:• Development of an individual competence model and definition of employability in every PC HEI taking into account country specific and institutional peculiarities • Conceptualization and establishment of Centers for Competence and Employment Development (CCED) at PC HEI with offerings to different internal and external target groups • Provision of tested of trainings, modules, tools and instrument oriented to different target groups• Promotion of the CCED as well as the competence and employability approach inside and outside the universities. • Elaboration of a manual with practical recommendations to transfer the concrete experiences of the partner by using cases and guiding questions. By pursuing these objectives the situation in the PC can be changed on the institutional and also in the mid-term perspective regional and national level, since* individual concepts for holistic competence development will be adapted to the external and internal specifics. * a definition and aim description of “Employability” as well as didactic concepts and concrete formats of measures and instruments will be suggested. * CCED as a regional expert for competence development can be positioned.

The project aims at rethinking education in humanities in Russia and Mongolia in line with EU standards, research and practices to catch up with the latest trends of the labour market and reinforce education in humanities by adopting digital methods of research and education. Proposal follows the idea that graduates with degrees in Arts and Humanities demonstrate high levels of soft skills development (demanded by potential employers), however, may lack digital skills traditionally associated with STEM programmes. Current state of affairs suggests the significance of harmonious development of both types of skills. Hence, the project is designed to achieve the following:1.Development of innovative education methodology based on research and education methods of humanities, digital humanities and STEM (compiled in online manual);2.Trainings to equip HEIs’ teachers with innovative methods of the EU countries and facilitate professional growth;3.Development, launch and piloting of multi-disciplinary Master degree programme with international student exchange opportunities;4.Creation of Digital Lab (virtual platform) which unites students, university teachers and researchers in international small-scale projects aimed at preserving and promoting cultural heritage;5.Promotion of innovations in education in humanities reinforced by STEM methods and tools via collaboration with cultural sector of labour market and joint small-scale projects of the Digital Lab.As a result, teachers will improve their professional skills and adopt new methods of teaching multidisciplinary courses. Students will get advantage of development of the EU framework competences and curriculum comprised of innovative courses that unite humanities and STEM for increasing their employability after graduation. External stakeholders (museums, galleries and other cultural institutions) will benefit from employees with high level of competences to meet the requirements of the digital age.

The project is designed to define clearly the mechanisms of transfer and commercialization of knowledge and technologies, which are to be understandable unambiguously and executable within the reasonable timeframes. Realization of the project will enable to eliminate the existing difficulties and bottlenecks in cooperation with enterprises, to make structure of the cooperation more clear and robust and to give new opportunities and open new work horizons.The project is aimed to bring cooperation quality to a new level, to improve it and to enlarge. It means that new communicative, scientific and business links will be established between the enterprises and HEIs.The cooperation to be improved for the following groups: students, teaching and administrative staff of the university and the enterprise. The changes are to be executed at the level of the consortium and to be applied to all the participants. The cooperation for the abovementioned groups will be realized in the forms of internships, workshops, meetings, conferences and round tables. There are no spin-off network between Russia, Portugal, the UK, Spain, China and Georgia. The first steps to build such effectively operating network will be taken in the project by the specialists from the participating parties.The wider objective is promoting Bologna process implementation through enhancing university-enterprise cooperation via spin-off companies best practices. Specific objectives are the following: 1. Development of effective SOC-Model for university-enterprise partnership and piloting in RF and Georgia HEIs.2. Creating of virtual international spin-off network.Project outcomes: 1. SOC-Model for university-enterprise partnership.2. Guidelines for SPC-Model for university-enterprise partnership implementation in partner HEIs (EU countries, Russia, China and Georgia). 3. Training courses for spin-off developers. 4. Virtual international spin-off network.