TEMPUS HEN-GREAR PROJECT INSTITUTIONAL MEETING AT ASUE
Tempus HEN-GEAR Project's (Higher Education Network for Human Capital Assessment and Graduates Employability in Armenia: www.hen-gear.net) Insitutional Meeting was held on December 2, 2013 at Armenian State University of Economics (New Tempus Hall, 128 Nalbandyan Str.).
Paruyr Kalantaryan, the Vice-Rector of Educational-Methodological Matters at ASUE, welcomed the participants, wished them productive work. Nerses Gevorgyan, the coordinator of Tempus projects at our University, Andrea Cammelli, the Director of AlmaLaurea Inter-University Consortium (AL), Professor, representatives of the partner universities and organizations participated in the meeting.
The meeting consisted of two parts. During the first part AlmaLaurea Inter-University Consortium in Italy, the coordinator of the project, presented the main goals, expected results and current state of implementation of Hen-GEAR project by participation of all stakeholders and interested parties. Professor Andrea Cammelli presented a report entitled “AlmaLaurea and the Higher Education Network for Human Capital Assessment and Graduates Employability in Armenia: an overview”.
The project’s partners and interested parties discussed the project’s future plans, existing problems and solutions to them during the second part of the meeting.
Note, that “Higher Education Network for Human Capital Assessment and Graduates Employability in Armenia (HEN-GEAR)” project is fulfilled in Armenia within the framework of Tempus Programme, and our University also participates in it. The latter runs from October 2012 to October 2015.
The project aims to establish an integrated demand supply matching model based on the graduates' database designed for: collecting and analyzing data on university and graduates performances, facilitating the placement of graduates in the labour market, and improving internal and external efficiency of the higher education system.
ASUE Media and Public Relations Division