Virtual Master School

The EuroPIM Master School is (still) mainly done by real classroom activities, real travel, teamwork in real, physical presence.

This concept was selected  for the WORK4CE consortium as  from the  EuroPim Master School participating 3 partners UPV/EHU Bilbao in Spain, FH Dortmund, Germany, who are successfully practicing this concept for several years.

For the synchronizing different semester calendars from different partner universities to be possible to provide joint events and workshops the cumulative project execution based on events as outputs was selected [2].

The main component is the portfolio of events [2]: all events and interactions are scheduled in an annual calendar which is made available to all involved parties. Furthermore, the events in the calendar are the basis for the budget estimation (based on the estimated number and duration of the mobilities) for the event which serves as the bottom-up planning data for the annual budget.

To implement Virtual Master School concept the WORK4CE Team need to complete following  steps:

1. Define connected Master Curricula in all 9 Universities. 
2. Define the Joint modules which will be implemented from the 9 Modules of the project. 
3. Define the Portfolio of actual and virtual events for the consortium.
4. Define funding models for short and long exchange  programs.
5. Define the plan of the double degree implementation  between the partner universities.
6. Set the Digital Portal for the joint educational infrastructure.

Reference: 

1. C. Wolff, C. Reimann, E. Mikhaylova, A. Aldaghamin, S. Pampus and E. Hermann, “Digital Education Ecosystem (DEE) for a Virtual Master School,” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Information Systems and Technologies (SIST), Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, 2021, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/SIST50301.2021.9465914.SIST-Wolff_etal_final3.pdf
2. O. Mikhieieva, A. Nuseibah, C. Decelis Grewe, C. Wolff and C. Reimann, “Implementing a project management approach for public-funded projects in HEIs,” 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS), Bucharest, Romania, 2017, pp. 247-252, doi: 10.1109/IDAACS.2017.8095085.