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Tempus Joint European Project
«Sustainable Environmental Development, A Curriculum Development Project»
Acronym: SEDC - Project #: JEP-30031-2002 (September 2003 - February 2007) |
| An overview |
Tempus is a programme by the European Commission designed to facilitate social and economical changes in partner countries, upgrading their superior educational systems via a collaboration with member States of the European Union. The programme is based on the concept that superior educational systems are fundamental for economical and social transition processes and cultural progress. Among Tempus eligible projects, Curriculum Development Projects are those whose task is to 'create new courses or upgrade existing ones and increase the know-how of the teaching staff'. Besides all the EU member states, eligible countries for Tempus are those of the former Soviet Union, the Balcan area and the Mediterranean basin (MEDA), such as Egypt. Tempus was the perfect funding programme for satisfying the urgent need of know-how in the field of environment protection and sustainable development at a university level in Egypt. The Tempus Joint European Project “Sustainable Environmental Development, A Curriculum Development Project (SEDC) was selected in early Summer 2003 and activities started on September 2003 and ended on February 2007. The beneficiary of the action was Suez Canal University (Ismailia, Egypt).
The activities of the project will be continuated and extended to other Mediterranean countries through the MEGREC network. |
| Click here to read about the background of the project. |
| Click here for a pdf presentation of the project (from a press conference in Venice; January, 2004). |
Please visit the official webpage of the Tempus Programme
(European Commission, Directorate-General for Education and Culture). |
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| Actions and results of SEDC |
SEDC attained its two main goals:
1) To upgrade and update some university courses introducing new concepts of sustainable development and green chemistry (go to the downloads page to look at a pamphlet on green chemistry in Arabic) in order to afford graduates with theoretical and technological knowledge at Suez Canal University (SCU; Ismailia, Egypt).
2) To establish a Centre of Excellence for sustainable environmental development to provide consultation and analytical services to customers at Suez Canal University (SCU; Ismailia, Egypt), on the basis of the existent Environmental Impact Assessment Unit (Faculty of
Agriculture) managed by Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed.
To fulfill Goal 1) main actions were:
- Upgrade of teaching tools, creation of an advances multimedia treaching room with fast Internet access (including a basic e-learning system)
- Specialization of SCU staff at European partner Institutes
- Training of SCU students at European partner Institutes
- Dissemination activities (website, publications, seminars, etc.)
To fulfill Goal 2) the main action were:
- Know-how transfer and provision of experts for the Centre (mini-courses by European experts at SCU, etc.)
- Dissemination activities (website, publications, seminars, etc.) |
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