B-learning Uzbekistan Veterinary Network

Unipi Team Leader: Alessandra Guidi, Department of Veterinary Science

The B-learning Uzbekistan Veterinary Network / BUzNet project will be implemented by a consortium of 4 European HEIs and 4 Uzbek HEIs. The general objective of the project is to increase the life standards of common Uzbek people through better veterinary and zootechnical teaching, which will ultimately result in better technical support for local herds’ owners and safer animal products reaching the general society. And this will be accomplished taking into account the local ecological limitations and using advance teaching techniques of practical subjects in veterinary/animal sciences. To do this we must first be sure about what we are dealing with, and so, a series of inquiries and local visits of European experts will be done in order to have a clear idea of the exact Uzbek situation in veterinary farm animal clinic and surgery and milk quality control. Then, a group of Uzbek teachers will be trained in European HEIs in new ways of teaching practical subjects and using B learning strategies to help doing so. Meanwhile, an updating of the present Uzbek curricula and local facilities present in Uzbek HEIs will be done. This way it will be possible to fully implement the new teaching strategies by the third and last year of the project. The core of the project will be the use of a B-learning interface (BLUzVet) that will create a learning community consisting of all members of the project consortium, teachers, students and veterinarians. The information is created by the students during practical classes under teachers supervision, commented by all consortium members and will be used in students’ examinations. In the future this system will be extended to members from other countries and regions. The network formed within this project agglutinates Veterinary HEIs from different backgrounds and will improve the setting of new veterinary, animal production management and milk quality control teaching standards in Uzbekistan and beyond.

Coordinator: UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (Portugal)

Other participants:

TOSHKENT DAVLAT AGRAR UNIVERSITETINUKUS FILIALI (Uzbekistan)
SAMARQAND VETERINARIYA MEDITSINASIINSTITUTI (Uzbekistan)
TOSHKENT DAVLAT AGRAR UNIVERSITETI (Uzbekistan)
ANDIJAN BRANCH OF TASHKENT STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY (Uzbekistan)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA (Italy)
UNIVERSITA DI PISA (Italy)
EESTI MAAULIKOOL (Estonia)

Start date: 15-10-2017

End date: 14-01-2022 

EU Grant: 971.852 €

Project website: https://buznet.up.pt/