scholarly journals Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-324
Author(s):  
Jelena Pubule ◽  
Antra Kalnbalkite ◽  
Erika Teirumnieka ◽  
Dagnija Blumberga
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Engineering Study ◽  
Relevance Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
Relevant Education

Abstract The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the assessment of effectiveness and relevance evaluation of environmental engineering study programmes should become an important issue. Presently the focus of the evaluation on multi-disciplinary study programmes varies from the evaluation of attitudes, impacts or effectiveness of utilisation-focused evaluation, summative evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches. The objective of this study was to propose an effective framework to evaluate the Environmental Engineering Master study programmes. During the research, the evaluation of existing study programmes on environmental engineering in Europe was conducted, information about the study courses, teaching methods, assessment methods and competences was used for the analysis. The results obtained showed that lectures, site visits, group coursework, practical laboratories and role-plays allows to reach the necessary knowledge, skills and competences and to provide an effective and relevant education to the Environmental Engineering Master programme students. The proposed evaluation framework was tested and approbated on new Riga Technical University Master study programmes on Environmental Engineering and Bioeconomy.

Made in Sweden: The translation of a European evaluation approach

Evaluation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Kettil Nordesjö
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
Ongoing Evaluation ◽  
Made In

To understand how evaluation approaches change between contexts, they need to be studied in relation to their social, cultural, organizational and political contexts. The aim of the article is to describe and analyse how the European Union evaluation approach, ongoing evaluation, was translated in Swedish public administration. A case study shows how institutional entrepreneurs promote their evaluation norms of participatory evaluation and attach evaluation to a less dominant governance logic in the Swedish evaluation field. This raises questions about the role of the evaluator, evaluation terminology, and the unclear and weak borders of the evaluation field where evaluation approaches can be launched and translated with relative ease.

scholarly journals SIGNIFICANCE OF ART AND SCIENCE OF URBAN DESIGN IN THE STUDY PROGRAMME OF ARCHITECTURE / URBANISTIKOS MENO IR MOKSLO REIKŠMĖ ARCHITEKTŪROS STUDIJŲ PROGRAMOJE

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Dijokienė
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Degree Programme ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Scientific Classification

Urban design is a component of art and science of architecture and an indispensable field of architectural activity. Subsequent to restoration of independence, Lithuania started travelling down the path of democratic urban design of towns and districts, which resulted in an inevitable evolution of concepts as well as mindset. Two decades of independence have passed, yet one could hardly say that everything is clearly and uniformly perceived by all players involved in activities of urban design. There is still a clear lack of common understanding of the object of art and science of urban design. As a branch of science, urban design is still somewhat misplaced in the scientific classification. This article discusses definitions of urban design used in Lithuania and abroad, gives summarised information on the formal position of urban design in documents regulating professional training, and assesses (within the context of the European Union requirements for professional qualifications) the courses on urban design basics taught under the BA degree programme of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Santrauka Urbanistika yra sudėtinė architektūros meno ir mokslo dalis bei neatsiejama architektūrinės veiklos sritis. Lietuvai atgavus nepriklausomybę ir einant demokratinio miestų bei rajonų planavimo ir urbanistinio projektavimo keliu, neišvengiamai buvo susidurta su vartojamų sąvokų ir net mąstysenos kaita. Nors prabėgo jau antrasis nepriklausomybės dešimtmetis, tačiau negalime teigti, kad viskas tapo aišku ir vienodai suprantama urbanistikos veiklos srityje. Lietuvoje vis dar yra gilus nesusikalbėjimas dėl urbanistikos meno ir mokslo objekto. Urbanistika kaip mokslo šaka vis dar neturi vietos mokslo klasifikatoriuje. Šiame straipsnyje yra aptariamos Lietuvoje ir užsienyje vartojamos urbanistikos definicijos, apibendrinama formalioji urbanistikos padėtis studijas reglamentuojančiuose dokumentuose, Europos Sąjungos reikalavimų profesinėms kvalifikacijoms kontekste įvertinami dėstomi urbanistinio projektavimo pagrindai VGTU AF architektūros bakalauro studijose.

Towards eGovernment in the Large

2011 ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Thomas Matheis ◽  
Jörg Ziemann ◽  
Peter Loos ◽  
Daniel Schmidt ◽  
Maria Wimmer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
European Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Requirements Engineering Process ◽  
European Research Project

An increasing level of cooperation between public administrations nowadays on national, regional and local level requires methods to develop interoperable eGovernment solutions and leads to the necessity of an efficient evaluation and requirements engineering process that guides the establishment of systems and services used by public administrations in the European Union. In this chapter, the authors propose a framework to systematically gather and evaluate requirements for eGovernment in the large. The evaluation framework is designed to support requirements engineers to develop a suitable evaluation and requirements engineering process with respect to interoperable eGovernment solutions. The methodology is motivated and explained on the basis of a European research project.

scholarly journals Opinions towards Companion Animals and Their Welfare: A Survey of Croatian Veterinary Students

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Mikuš ◽  
Mario Ostović ◽  
Ivana Sabolek ◽  
Kristina Matković ◽  
Željko Pavičić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
First Year ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Before And After

This survey was the first one investigating opinions of veterinary students in Croatia towards companion animals and their welfare, with special reference to dogs and cats as the most popular companion animals in the European Union. The study included students of all six years of the integrated undergraduate and graduate veterinary medicine study programme in Croatia. First-year students were surveyed twice, before and after having attended the course on animal welfare. Student opinions were assessed on the basis of their mean responses to five-point Likert scale questions and frequency of responses to Yes/No/I do not know questions and ratio scale questions. Study results revealed students to have strongly positive opinions towards companion animals and their welfare. The majority of student statements did not differ significantly between the first and sixth study years or before and after having attended the animal welfare course in the first study year, mostly yielding a straight, non-fluctuating line. Students were not sure whether welfare of companion dogs and cats was compromised. Study results pointed to reliable and reasonable opinions of veterinary medicine students in Croatia towards companion animals and their welfare, as well as to the welfare issues these species may be facing nowadays.

scholarly journals Renovation of sanitary engineering study programme

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 838-842
Author(s):  
Andrej Ovca ◽  
Nevenka Ferfila ◽  
Borut Poljšak ◽  
Damjan Slabe ◽  
Gregor Jereb
Keyword(s):  
Study Programme ◽  
Engineering Study

scholarly journals Validation of the competence profile of agri-environmental engineering bachelor course

2010 ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Julianna M. Fricz ◽  
Csaba Juhász
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
The Common

As member of the European Union, the development if the Hungarian agriculture is determined by the Common Agricultural Policy. After the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in 2003, the environmental protection has got a crucial function. The constant changing role of agriculture has reacted students in higher education. For firms connected to agriculture, human resource management based on competency has an important role in custody of competitiveness. One of the most important goals of firms is to supply the demands of their economic partners. To make it successfully, highly qualified human resource is required. The quality of human resource is determined not only by its qualification, language skills, professional experience, and practise, but extant competencies that can also be developed. To choose the expectant employee, it is not enough for them to have intelligence and proficiency; it is also decisive to examine their particular competencies. All of these will define the employee’sachievement that will definitely contribute to the success of the enterprise. Basically, closer cooperation is needed between higher education institutions and employers to achieve this goal. At the same time, the higher education institutions can revise their training systems considering the actual requirements of labour market, and accordingly, they can form syllabus in a way to train auspicious experts. In this article examination of the requirements of labour market for graduates from agri-environmental engineering bachelor course is presented.

scholarly journals Evaluation of eHealth Deployment at Primary Care in the EU Member States by Usage of Selected MCDM Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-359
Author(s):  
Eva Ardielli
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
European Union ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
European Union Member States

AbstractInformation and Communication Technologies have become a revolutionary part of European healthcare in recent years. The European Commission considers eHealth as an important and appropriate tool that can contribute to cope with the challenges that are currently affecting the healthcare systems in Europe. The development of eHealth is therefore embedded in many EU strategies and is being evaluated on an ongoing basis. In the past, several studies have been carried out focusing on the evaluation of individual areas of eHealth - especially on the area of primary care secured by General Practitioners and Acute Hospitals. However, no synthesis of these works was made. This paper is focused on the proposing of an assessment for both mentioned areas of eHealth. The aim is to evaluate the eHealth deployment in the European Union Member States by the synthesis of Composite Indicators in existing studies into the evaluation model based on the application of Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making techniques. The evaluation is performed by the usage of TOPSIS, WSA, and MAPPAC method. The result of the research is the design of an evaluation framework for eHealth that enables the comparison of eHealth indicators in the international context and evaluation of eHealth deployment in European Union Member States in the form of a ranking. In this ranking, the Nordic countries are among the best-rated countries, while the worst-rated countries are in Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals Evaluating projects in multifaceted and marginalised communities: The need for mixed approaches

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Curran ◽  
Pamela Taylor-Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Community Agencies ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Complex Settings ◽  
Justice Practice

This article examines the evaluation process and approach undertaken for a recent 3-year Integrated Justice Practice project. Three key approaches underpinned the evaluation framework or program logic: participatory evaluation, action research, and continuous reflective practice. The project involved an evaluation of community agencies working in complex settings, within a human service delivery context. The mix of processes encouraged these agencies to own the evaluation through providing clarity and grounded information about what works, how, and what does not work and why, so as to improve both service delivery and community understanding, and to affect policy and funding settings. The discussion is situated within several theories of ‘participatory evaluation’ – meaning that the views of service receivers and providers were included both in the research and in its design. These perspectives were essential because input from young people about how legal services support them, and from providers about the policies services adopt is rare. The services and their partners reported that the evaluation process had been ‘transformative’, with each identifying changes in practice. It’s also edifying for the evaluators, revealing that cultural competency, trust, respect and safety are critical elements when engaging with young people with unresolved legal issues, including family violence.

Participatory evaluation is the sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed”

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Rogers ◽  
Nea Harrison ◽  
Therese Puruntatameri ◽  
Alberta Puruntatameri ◽  
Joan Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

Participatory evaluation can be embedded in programs to support good governance and facilitate informed decision making in Aboriginal communities in remote and urban contexts. An Aboriginal Elder from the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia described participatory evaluation as a sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed.” The metaphor refers to the long-term and broad approach undertaken when a complex community development program used participatory processes to build evaluation capacity and solve problems. The evaluation approach ensured the program was inclusive, responsive, empowering, and resulted in direct benefits for the communities. This article addresses the lack of literature on applying developmental and empowerment evaluation approaches in practice by describing the methods, tools, and use of evaluation findings. The value of participating for the community members and partner organizations is shared and the benefits and implications for participants and the evaluator are discussed. The authors hope this article inspires practitioners and evaluators to consider participatory ways of working with communities to support community directed action and social change.

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