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 Project Activities
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The project includes 6 WorkPackages (WP):
(1) Project Management, in which the entire activities of the project will be monitored by the Project team and optimized against project planning and related deliverables to be produced.
(2) Adaptation of the curriculum to the economic context. A Ph.D student from CAMT has initiated this work. He will be supported by bringing some methologies used in France and Germany to study the characteristics of jobs. Another aim is to create a substainable organisation to upgrade this reference model and the teaching contents of the MMIT program, regularly and jointly with companies.
(3) Cooperative Education Structure and adaptation. This includes transferring of the French and German expertises to build and structure a partner company network and support CAMT staff to work with companies to integrate students and provide good learning conditions. Building tools (company database, apprenticeship booklet, Information system between CAMT and companies, etc.) will be a main part of this work.
(4) Integration of new teaching modules. New teaching courses will be developed on the specific trade and investment with EU, including regulatory, technical (norms, standards) and cultural aspects. French and German teaching modules will be added too.
(5) Implementing a followup system of the MMIT graduates’ career paths, the jobs they apply for and the economic and social impact of their training program.
(6) Dissimination, starts at the half way through the project and aims to tranfer the practices to other faculties of CMU and other universities in the northern part of Thailand (Rajamagala Universities are mostly considered). Specific methodologies will be further extended in cooperative education for Technical Bachelor degree in a SMEs context.
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WP1 – Project Management
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The project management board (PMB) will consist of one member from each partner and two members from the applicant Institution. Their duty is to follow the progress of the project, review the activities of the different workpackages, allocate resources, and manage hazards. The PMB will meet once every four months in Chiang Mai University (CAMT), except for the 2nd meeting, which will take place in Europe (3 days in Lyon, France and 3 days in Villingen-Schwillengen, Germany). PMB will review the tasks and activities and coordinate the different workpackages regarding to the agreed project plan. The PMB will be chaired by the nominee of Chiang Mai University whose responsibility is to provide an agenda, to organize the meetings (or workshops, etc) and to produce the minutes of the PMB after the meetings.
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WP2 - Adaptation of the curriculum to the economic context.
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This workpackage has got a dual objective:
- first, elaborating analysis tools for the jobs targeted by the MMIT training course, while taking into account the sustainable skills needs in terms of production management in an ever more global context; as well as the European employer’s more specific needs, and more generally those who want to develop relations with European markets. The project will enable to contribute to this first objective by bringing the two European partners’ expertise on analysing the jobs targeted by a training and the relevance of teaching programs when applied to the identified skill needs.
- Then, implementing an organisation in partnership with the employers to update the reference model and regularly adapt and update the teaching program to the current requirements and the future developments of the industrial world.
The European experiences of the IUT Lumière and of the Baden-Württemberg State University in terms of University technical training show the importance of a subtle and up-dated knowledge of the jobs targeted by a training course to define the teaching contents and the pedagogical approaches adapted to our current and future realities. They also show the importance of a collaborative work between university and professors and the employers’ representatives to ensure this consistence between the training and the industrial world without failing into an instantaneous adaptation to the companies’ requirements. It is also necessary to define transversal and transferable skills to facilitate professional development and mobility
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WP3 - Cooperative Education Structure and adaptation
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Cooperative education lies on 2 principles:
- Activity in the workplace is necessary to develop operational skills.
- Integration of University theory with a planned and supervised practical work experience related to the student's major field of academic study and career goals can lead to an enrichment of learning.
But the success of this type of training program requires that the staff organises and creates tools and procedures structuring and ensuring a good collaboration between the University and the companies. The pedagogical organisation set-up and used in the IUT Lumière and the BW-SU rely on some tools and an organisation specific to cooperative education. These tools and methods can not be created from traditional undergraduate programs. The purpose of WP3 is to allow a transfer of the tools and methods used by IUT Lumière and BW-SU and to adapt them to the Thai local context.
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WP4 - Integration of new teaching modules.
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This Workpackage aims at creating new teaching modules within the MMIT training program, so as to train students to the specificities of trading activities with the Economic Union companies. At a production supervisor level, the companies not only want technical skills (mastering norms, standards and trade legislation of the Common Market), but also relational assets ; which requires a solid knowledge of the habits and trade practices in European companies, as well as have a good command of several languages.
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WP5 - Implementing a follow up system of the MMIT’s graduates
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The follow-up surveys carried out for the graduates aim at providing indicators of effectiveness and training monitoring. They allow the University teachers to acquire a better knowledge of:
- the choices and methods of career advising or the professional integration of the graduates after their training
- the positions held by the students, and the development of their careers.
These data are important when assessing the social and economic impact of a training course. For example, in the case of the MMIT program, information on the period of time in which these positions are held will be crucial to assess whether the adaptations brought by the training to the project enable to limit the turn-over of production supervisors, and give them access to more qualified jobs, more open to the global market, etc. They also allow to gather extremely useful information which can be turned into communication tools either directed towards the students(ads for the training, career advising literature), or towards the companies (a presentation of cooperative education, its outlets, etc). The purpose of the WP5 is to provide the CAMT with a European technical support in order to achieve surveys informing the follow-up of the professional integration of the graduates on the work market
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WP6 - Dissemination
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The activities of the workpackage 6 aim at diffusing:
- the culture of the cooperation between Universities and Companies to build and manage new training programs in the Public Institution in Thailand
- the European methodologies to analyse jobs, skills and adapt training course towards other universities and institution in Thailand;
- information on EU norms and standards; commercial habits and specific requirements of EU companies
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