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<p>Nowadays Russian and Chinese universities have to offer programs which facilitate graduates’ adaptation to the real manufacturing and business environment and raise their competitiveness at the labor market. In order to develop a qualitative program is necessary to establish close links with business community as well as European universities which have rich experience in development of similar programs. The wide objective is by introduction of interdisciplinary programs at Russian and Chinese Universities, to enhance the quality of education in the electrical and measurement engineering and the employability of Russian and Chinese graduates in this field through internationalization of Master Curricula along the Bologna lines. The first specific objective of the project is to design and develop the interdisciplinary master program “Instrument engineering and intelligent quality control”. The second specific objective of the project is to set up a virtual instrument-training enterprise to enhance obtaining practical skills and modernization of traditional teaching contests by applying new communication technologies. The third specific objective is to develop internationalization strategy of international cooperation for promotion mutual interest and mobility of students between Partner Universities by means of Double degree program (DDP).Academic staff and students of educational institutions of Russian and Chinese engineering universities will be final beneficiaries of the Project. In broad sense all employers who will have an opportunity to employ graduates with state-of-the-art skills. </p><h4 class="flaticon-clerks">Coordinator:</h4><div class="projectFicheCoordDetailName"><ul><li><b> </b>UNIVERSITE DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT - MONTBELIARD</li></ul></div><h4 class="flaticon-multiple25 projectFichePartners">Partners:</h4><ul><li>FEDERAL STATE BUDGETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION M.I. PLATOV SOUTH-RUSSIAN STATE POLITECHNIC UNIVERSITY NPI</li><li>CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY</li><li>VOLGOGRADSKIY GOSUDARSTVENNIY TEKHNICHESKIY UNIVERSITET</li><li>FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED EDUCATION INSTITUTION OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PERM NATIONAL RESEARCH POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY</li><li>KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER A.N. TUPOLEV-KAI FEDERAL STATE BUDGET-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL INST HIGH PROF EDUC KNRTU<img title="China" class="flag cn" src="http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/valor/images/blank.png" style="" alt="" /> </li><li>LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY</li><li>OTTO-VON-GUERICKE-UNIVERSITAET MAGDEBURG</li><li>UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'AQUILA</li><li>VORONEZH STATE UNIVERSITY</li></ul>

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<p>The importance of quality human resource management (HRM) for the development and optimisation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is undeniable today. There are increasingly complex academic scenarios which demand HRM models able to respond to new challenges in the selection, development and motivation of staff. HR approches focused on tasks-performanc related to personnel recruitment, organisation of employment contracts and payment of wages are compeltely superseeded by new issues, such as training, promotion and encouragement, evaluation, development support and systematic planning for future needs.</p><p><br />National and regional processes of socio-economic transformation and globalisation are influencing HRM in HE worldwide. In South Mediterranean countries, HR systems face numerous challenges focused in different factors, such as quality, level of state expenditure in education, suitability to the real needs of labour market and society, appropriate governance mechanism, and acces to HE, particular for most vulnerable groups.</p><p><br />Reforms in the South Mediterranean countries are seriously needed to move forward and try to take advantage of the socio-political movements of past years, the results of which are still quite uncertain. To do so, HEIs need to overcome certain difficulties such as common staff shortages and improvable working conditions, which have direkt impact on the motivation of their personnel. Management structures need also to apply more transparent recruitment criteria and processes, less politically oriented merits, good contractual conditions and balanced and transparent options for promotion.</p><p><br />As regards the countries targeted by RISE (Jordan, Tunesia, Algerie and Morocco) they all share the abovementioned diffculties. There is, i.a., a generalised lack of structure trainig programmes for staff, little use of e-governance tools to simplify procedures, and a weak culture on meritocracy, as highlighted, e.g., in the World Bank Reports on Public Administration Reforms 2011 and the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013. Regionaldifficulties were also thoroughly discussed at the Tempus Seminar on &quot;Management of Human Resources in Public Higher Education in the Southern Mediterranean&quot;, held in June 2013 in Nicosia. Experts recognised that there is potential for improvement, should HEIs staff be optimally managed and used. It was also underlined that maintaining high motivation of administrative and technical staff seemed to be the major obstacle in the region. In all sessions, the &quot;too much safety&quot; of employment was also iterated by the participants, who pointed out that if plansand strategies are developed in the region, they are too often not implemented or at least not monitored. They also agreed that the reform of the labour law is essential to improve in this field. Some of these findings are still endorsed by other experts and works.</p><p>In this scenario, RISE main purpose is to contribute to South Mediterranean Higher Education Reform Agenda through the modernisation of People Management. This global objectivewill be targeted by means of three focused specific actions:</p><div class="indent"><ul><li>Capacity building in HRM for the target South Mediterranean HEIs towards stronger organisational efficency</li><li>Creation of regional network on HRM as a forum for exchange of good practices</li><li>Conceiving and developing institutional HR strategies in South Mediterranean HEIs</li></ul></div>

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<p>Today, there is a major lack of knowledge and experiences in the field of ESE and Business Informatics in the EU southern neighboring region. The MSC.ESE project with the reference number 530260-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR aims at creating a master s curriculum in ESE at JO/SY/TN/EG universities to be taught in a new master s programme that will be established through the project at one university in each country (4 in total) where the lectures will take place. The curriculum will include also single-subject courses which target professionals and employees from interested companies. The project will ensure the ability of targeted universities to offer an advanced curriculum in ESE based on successful course materials, teaching methods and faculty expertise available at EU universities. Courses will be adapted to JO/SY/TN/EG teaching practices and business environment. Five individual experts will be involved for evaluating the project.</p> <p>The project's specific objectives are: </p> <ul><li>Create 5-6 new courses and update 6-8 available ones in a way that conforms to ECTS and Bologna Process</li> <li>Incorporate ICT through a Web-based E-learning, course management and admission system</li> <li>Apply new teaching methods, PBL and PGL, that are based on comprehension rather than memorization, and obtain case studies from real industrial problems in JO/SY/TN/EG</li> <li>Explore the possibility for this programme's graduates to continue their studies at EU universities based on performance and availability</li> <li>Six ESE labs in the targeted universities equipped with advanced software and E-Learning tools</li> <li>Organize ESE concluding scientific conference on an international level</li> <li>Re/-training of staff from JO/SY/TN/EG universities for the new curriculum, E-Learning and teaching methods</li> <li>Explore the possibility to have regular video conferences among EU/target universities to form an inter-university scientific cooperation</li></ul><p></p>

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In recent years the online business environment is viewed by customers from a new perspective. Social media to a great extent affects the customer’s awareness, preference and even decision process. Dramatic developments in interactive social media have fundamentally changed the rules and performance of the marketing ecosystem. Compared to the traditional business model, consumers make use of social media platforms to influence other buyers through online interactivity. Consumers have changed their roles in the process of communication to actively participate in content creation, instead of passively accepting information released by firms. Marketing-related user-generated content has been one of the core schemes that firms create, maintain and improve the relationships with consumers in virtual communities. While more enterprises turned their attentions to invest in their social media platforms for exploiting the potential of online social marketing, a lack of available and reliable measurements for the effectiveness of social media marketing retards them to associate the social media initiatives with organizational goals. Thus, scholars suggest that effective measurements for social media should take into account consumers’ motivations to generate individual contents resulting from interactions, as well as the measuring metrics are able to quantify the long-term returns of investing in social media. This project concentrates on the interactivity of social media, and endeavours to establish a set of practical classification methods based on extracting interactivity attributes. A review of literature results in research hypothesis revolving around four necessary properties of social media: users’ motives, user-generated content, network structure, and social roles &amp; interactions. Quantitative analyses will be adopted to verify the hypotheses and make conclusions.

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<p>The project &quot;Solution and Services Engineering for Measuring, Monitoring, and Management of Organizations Environmental Performance Indicators (OEPI)&quot; is an international research project that is sponsored by the European Commission. Eight partners, including universities and industrial partners, work together on this project, relying on different expert profiles. </p>