governAnce, quality, accountability: a Piloting Reform pRocess in kurdistAn region of Iraq
Unipi Team Leader: Francesco Marcelloni, Vice Rector for international cooperation and relations; Marco Abate, Vice Rector for Teaching
APPRAIS addresses governance, strategic planning and management of higher education institutions, with a particular focus on enhancing the capacities of human resources and proposing a reform for the local Higher Education system through the implementation of Bologna process.
APPRAIS project idea comes from the willingness of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR KRG) to improve and develop higher education system in Kurdistan region of Iraq. Within this logic, the MOHESR KRG has encouraged several Iraqi Universities to adopt the European education system thus to implement the Bologna process. Therefore, APPRAIS will contribute to allow HEIs in defining a roadmap for a better university governance and implementation of Bologna process in the HEIs of Kurdistan region of Iraq. Secondly, it will upgrade by means of training and CB action delivered by the EU universities, the skills of presidents, vice-presidents, heads of IROs and QA responsibles on strategic planning, quality assurance and credits recognition, as well as the capacities of administrative staff on university administrative management, quality assurance and internationalisation strategies. Finally, thanks to the harmonization phase, the piloting process of reform from Kurdistan region will be enlarged also to the whole country and each university will define its own institutional strategic plan.
The specific objectives of APPRAIS are:
-Enhancing good governance, by strengthening the definition and development of HEIs roadmap;
-Improving HEIs capacities on quality assurance mechanisms, strategic planning, management and accountability practices;
-Supporting the implementation of Bologna Process within HEIs in Kurdistan region of Iraq by improving knowledge on recognition of credits and learning mobility;
-Adopting the university reform on good governance and Bologna process at each HEIs, through the definition and validation of institutional action plans
Like any governance dimension, all the above-mentioned objectives require a strong strategic orientation and capacity to be accomplished but, at the same time, they are also preconditioning for an effective strategic planning. Consequently, the project aims at supporting each HEIs to develop their own strategies and specific action plans in order to make the governance changes possible.
Coordinator: UNIMED - UNIONE DELLE UNIVERSITA DEL MEDITERRANEO (Italy)
Other participants:
UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA (Spain)
UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA (Portugal)
CHARMO UNIVERSITY (Iraq)
UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI (Iraq)
UNIVERSITY OF DUHOK (Iraq)
HALABJA UNIVERSITY (Iraq)
DUHOK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (Iraq)
UNIVERSITY OF GARMIAN (Iraq)
UNIVERSITY OF ZAKHO (Iraq)
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO (Norway)
UNIVERSITA DI PISA (Italy)
SALAHADDIN UNIVERSITY - ERBIL (Iraq)
Start date: 15-01-2021
End date: 14-01-2024
EU Grant: 999.852 €
Project website: https://www.appraisproject.eu/
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Deadline for submission of the paper: 14/02/2024
