CHALLENGES OF EXTEND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (BASED ON NMSTU EXPERIENCE)
CHALLENGES OF EXTEND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (BASED ON NMSTU EXPERIENCE)

Summary/Abstract: Enhancing engineering education is a challenging issue nowadays. The international project implemented within the program of Erasmus + KA2 Capacity Building in Higher Education # 586060-EPP-1- 2017- RO-EPPKA2-CBHE “Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan” (acronym – EXTEND) contributes to solving this issue and aims to improve the quality of engineering education. The paper describes the importance of the quality of engineering personnel training, as well as goals and objectives of EXTEND project. The authors give the detailed information about the project calendar, its stages, and annual actions of the project participants from 2017-2021. The pandemic has intervened in the project during the third year of its implementation, therefore it was prolonged for one year more, till 2021. The paper shows the obstacles the project consortium faced under pandemic conditions, and the ways of overcoming them. In the process of online project implementation, it was revealed that even despite the lack of face-to-face meetings, due to the joint efforts of partner-universities it was possible to continue the project fruitfully and achieve its results. The role of mentor universities is particularly emphasized. The authors describe the experience of one of the twelve project participants, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU) in implementation of the project. This institution was in charge of the elaboration of the course “Foreign Languages for Engineering. Academic Writing”, aimed at building future engineers and engineering teachers’ soft skills. EXTEND project addresses a very important issue of engineering education excellence, and has been doing a prominent job in actually achieving that.

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