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Creating international semester regarding military education needs for future officers in Europe
Date du début: 5 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 4 oct. 2017 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

Current geopolitical situation creates a challenge for national and international security systems. A constant growing number of armed conflicts, as well as an escalation of political disputes (e.g. Eastern Europe), justifies an increased role of defense education. In the ensuing situation, in order to meet the current security demands and challenges, the EU member states put a particular emphasis on a modification of military education systems. The key activity would be focused on a standardization of curricula and their implementation during the international semester as part of the military studies’ 1st cycle. Unification of a didactic process would allow students to choose and follow the studies in the international environment, which further prepare them to efficiently cooperate within a framework of European military units built to strengthen safe and secure EU. It is believed that maintaining a stable EU, demands a creation of certain conditions that allow military students, during their basic military education, to actively participate in the mobility forms of education. It would provide them with the opportunity to meet their peers from abroad and increase their knowledge learned during the international semester. A significant support is required in order to sustain development and provide equal opportunities for military education. Currently, military students constitute a specific group that is discriminated by mobility opportunities of Erasmus+. It is not the case, however, of an intentional or institutional discrimination, but a result of internal legal regulations of military academies, which, according to the national law, are obliged to fulfil requirements of both Ministries of Defense and higher education ministry. One of the effects of such situation is the 20% increase of mandatory number of hours prescribed to satisfy the accreditation demands. Furthermore, as part of their basic military education, cadets must complete their vocational training, which takes place in training centers and military units. These requirements exhaust time that could be used for student mobility, and create problems with recognition of qualifications earned abroad. There is also a difficulty in comparison of these education effects between partner universities, because of their “national” characteristics (military students acquire skills and knowledge of national armed forces operations). The need of standardization of the officer preparation programs and the added value thereof, that gives a opportunity to conduct part of the education within the framework of the international semesters, demands from the partner institutions a systematic approach in modification of their study programs in order to fill the gap in cadets’ education by activation of so-called “mobility windows”. The inventive character of the proposed project, base on the situation that, despite of growing importance of defense and security affairs within the EU’s policy, there is still lack of initiatives that support and promote common education and international exchange of military students. Moreover, it is planned that the project consists of a pioneered product – the education program of international military semester. The partner academies would reach the assumed goal by executing the following tasks: 1. Defining common programs content and its implementation to the international semester. Moreover teachers would also develop instructions for preparation of education content and tools (e.g. e-books, e-learning content, interactive classes supported by ICT) that would support students’ education and virtual mobility. 2. Development of the comprehensive education program for the 1st level studies, conducted during the so-called “mobility windows” (total value of 30 ECTS) and including practical training component (conducted in form of an intensive program). 3. Development of material and tools supporting the international semester’s education program. 4. Implementation of international semester program – program pilot phase throughout the project. Additionally, in accordance with the overall idea, the proposed project would also include an organization of side activities aimed at promotion and proliferation of an intellectual work effects. The credibility of the strategic partnership bases on their long-lasting cooperation within multilateral programs such as the Erasmus Program, common international education projects, and constant mutual research and didactic events. Considering all above mentioned, the partnership is convinced that the implementation of the project of proposed form, would positively affect a development of cooperation between military education institutions of the EU countries, especially in the area of common initiatives aimed at consolidation of higher education system, which would help to satisfy popular demands for more secure EU.

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