SMARTT – Screening, Mapping, Analyzing, Recommending, Transferring and Transforming Higher Education international programmes
SMARTT is an innovative project aiming at analysing, testing, and piloting the new European Degree label criteria, improving the quality and increasing the transferability of future developments of European Degrees across Europe and beyond.
SMARTT was a one-year project that spans from April 2023 to April 2024. It was funded by the Erasmus+ call: ERASMUS-EDU-2022-POL-EXP-HE – EU Degree “Pilot a joint European degree label” of the European Union.
UNITA took part of the project with other 3 European Universities Alliances: CIVIS – Europe’s Civic University Alliance, EUTOPIA, NEUROTECHEU, alongside higher education institutions, national and regional stakeholders and relevant actors.
Based on significant experience in designing and delivering joint and multiple degree programmes at transnational level, the higher education institutions involved in the SMARTT project propose to expand this experience and draw, based on clear methodologies and thorough analyses, recommendations and proposals both for the European Commission and the member states, to support the development of a European Approach for designing and implementing Joint European Degrees in the future. The consortium partners possess an extensive history of successful international collaboration and have consistently played a leading role in the co-development of the European Degree policy initiative since its inception.
The specific objectives of SMARTT were:
- Mapping the different regulations and goals at the national and European levels
- Establishing a catalogue of indicators for European criteria.
- Propose an approach that could be commonly agreed on for the delivery of joint degrees based on co-created European criteria by European countries at all education levels
- Testing the relevance of these criteria
- Conducting a joint reflection on possible scenarios for the delivery of a joint degree at all levels, based on these co-created European criteria
- Exploring and recommending possible optimization of the proposed set of criteria.
- Sharing good practices at all levels.
- Organizing a large dissemination event and elaborating materials.
The SMARTT recommendations, grounded in the principles and tools of the Bologna Process and the objectives of the EHEA and EEA, advocate for a streamlined, inclusive, and quality-focused approach to the development and recognition of joint degree programs. Through harmonization with existing policies, enhancement of quality assurance standards, and emphasis on mobility and cooperation, these recommendations envision a cohesive, competitive, and unified European educational landscape.
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