Strategic Partnership Project as Academic Training Ground
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2023
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The article presents the Erasmus Plus Strategic Partnership international project “NEW FACES: Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare’s World and Present Challenges” (2016-2019), which was granted to and realised by a consortium of nine European universities, including the Jagiellonian University. In each of the three subsequent academic years two to four teachers from the involved universities and about sixty students participated in a high-level collaborative programme which included seminars, lectures, panels and other academic and non-academic events. The article describes the origin of the project, its main aims and objectives, as well as the achieved results. It presents the participating institutions’ fields of expertise and their contribution to the content of the teaching and research programme. It reports on the rules and requirements of students’ participation and on the tasks and activities the students were expected to undertake. It also summarises the seminar offer and some of the academic events that were organised in the course of the project years, as well as presents some teaching methods and procedures, referring to an example of one of the seminars. It is argued that a Strategic Partnership project can be an effective academic training ground that enables students to actively acquire and develop a range of academic, social and international competences and skills vital for their involvement in shaping the future of Europe as prospective scholars and as citizens.
Keywords: Strategic Partnership, international project, education, Shakespeare, European crisis
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Artykuł jest poświęcony międzynarodowemu projektowi naukowo-dydaktycznemu „NEW FACES: Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare’s World and Present Challenges”, zrealizowanemu w latach 2016-2019 przez konsorcjum dziewięciu europejskich uniwersytetów w ramach Partnerstwa Strategicznego Erasmus Plus. W ciągu trzech kolejnych lat projekt skupiał od dwóch do czterech wykładowców oraz około sześćdziesięcioro studentów z uczelni partnerskich wokół ambitnego programu dydaktycznego oferującego seminaria, wykłady, panele oraz inne wydarzenia naukowe i pozanaukowe. W artykule zostały omówione założenia i koncepcje naukowo-dydaktyczne, które legły u podstaw ubiegania się o omawiany projekt, jego główne cele i osiągnięte efekty kształcenia. Zostały przedstawione pola badawcze reprezentowane przez uczelnie partnerskie oraz ich wkład w kształt programu naukowo-dydaktycznego, zasady rekrutacji studentów oraz wymagania i zadania stawiane przed nimi w ramach realizacji projektu.
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- Reading the Past, Understanding the Present , pp. 195 - 216Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2021