Academic Education Chain Operation Model

This paper presents an approach for modelling the educational processes as a value added chain. It is an attempt to use a business approach to interpret and compile existing business and educational processes towards reference models and suggest an Academic Education Chain Operation Model. The model can be used to develop an Academic Chain Operation Reference Model.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

MODELING OF THE MAIN ACADEMIC PROCESSES

This paper presents the possibility for modeling the educational processes as a value added chai

Modeling of the research and education strategy in Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University

The efficient and effective university education system is a huge benefit for individuals and for the community. The competences, innovation, and creativity developed through academic education are a major factor in the success in creating jobs and in our prosperity. As Bulgaria join EU community, it has the opportunity to act on the competition challenges and set the economy on a higher growth path. EC and World Bank proposes a strong reform agenda focused on five areas to narrow the income, productivity, and investment gaps and accelerate convergence with the EU [6]. The first of them are to improve the quantity and quality of human capital. To address this problem, we start 7FP Specific programme "Capacity" - Research potential project named SISTER - Strengthening the IST Research Capacity of Sofia University, Grant agreement no.: 205030. The first goal of the SISTER project is to achieve the following important objectives - Investigate the current state of the innovative education and research practice, develop a strategic model and write the strategy for the period 2008-2013, build the capacity of faculty and industry in the area of IT/IS management and to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the field. The right process to create that winning strategy involves all stakeholders and will develop important in-house strategic thinking capabilities. Active participating in the Roundtable for Entrepreneurship Education (REE, http://ree.stanford.edu/), Intel-UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship initiatives (T2 seminars, Global Faculty Colloquium and Business Plan Competitions, http://www.entrepreneurshipchallenge.org/) and European Knowledge and innovation Dialogue (EKID http://www.s144764852.online.de/index.php), FMI try to follow the world's best practices and to develop competitive strategy for research and education [1,3]. The goal of the paper is to introduce and to present the model of the faculty education and research strategy and to show that modelling process of the faculty strategy through Balanced Scorecard (BSC) methodology can be useful

D9.2 Report, containing internal deliverable outcomes ID9.2-ID9.11

The aim of this deliverable is to report on TENCompetence training activities from the project month 13 to 30The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

D4.2 Evaluation of cycle 1 pilots

This report describes the efforts in cycle 1 pilots to evaluate the concept of TENCompetence and its first-release system implementation. Cycle 1 pilots are framed in two different domains: Digital Cinema and ICT Teacher Training. Both pilots are preceded by two preliminary experiences, which are very useful for planning the actual cycle 1 implementation, deployment and evaluation. The first results from cycle 1 pilots are encouraging and indicate that learners using the first-release of the TENCompetence infrastructure feel more in control of their own learning.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

From Education to Technology Commercialization

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016Purpose – to present the state of the art of a technology commercialization and the experience of the authors. Design/methodology/approach – based on a deep literature review, analysis and syntheses and the long experience in education and mentoring of the author the big picture of the technology commercialization is described. Practical implications – the strategy can facilitate stakeholders to formulate and implement a technology commercialization. Originality/value – the value of the paper is in survey and practical presentation of the leading theories and practices.Association for the Development of the Information Society, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski

Scenarios and models for Training Pilots

This paper aims at illustrating scenarios, models, results of the models and the experiences carried on within the EC 6FP TENCompetence project Pilot Trainings. It is focused on elucidating how to plan, model and organize pilots training process and how to adopt advanced best practices for creating patterns in order to improve the partners training business opportunities

Modeling of the research and education strategy in Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University

The efficient and effective university education system is a huge benefit for individuals and for the community. The competences, innovation, and creativity developed through academic education are a major factor in the success in creating jobs and in our prosperity. As Bulgaria join EU community, it has the opportunity to act on the competition challenges and set the economy on a higher growth path. EC and World Bank proposes a strong reform agenda focused on five areas to narrow the income, productivity, and investment gaps and accelerate convergence with the EU [6]. The first of them are to improve the quantity and quality of human capital. To address this problem, we start 7FP Specific programme "Capacity" - Research potential project named SISTER - Strengthening the IST Research Capacity of Sofia University, Grant agreement no.: 205030. The first goal of the SISTER project is to achieve the following important objectives - Investigate the current state of the innovative education and research practice, develop a strategic model and write the strategy for the period 2008-2013, build the capacity of faculty and industry in the area of IT/IS management and to improve the overall efficiency and productivity of the field. The right process to create that winning strategy involves all stakeholders and will develop important in-house strategic thinking capabilities. Active participating in the Roundtable for Entrepreneurship Education (REE, http://ree.stanford.edu/), Intel-UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship initiatives (T2 seminars, Global Faculty Colloquium and Business Plan Competitions, http://www.entrepreneurshipchallenge.org/) and European Knowledge and innovation Dialogue (EKID http://www.s144764852.online.de/index.php), FMI try to follow the world's best practices and to develop competitive strategy for research and education [1,3]. The goal of the paper is to introduce and to present the model of the faculty education and research strategy and to show that modelling process of the faculty strategy through Balanced Scorecard (BSC) methodology can be useful