CHEMEPASS Project

 

Chemical Engineering Mobility Tools

 

A project funded by the European Commission within

the Action 4 "Enhancing Attractiveness" of

the Erasmus Mundus Programme

 

Project duration: November 2006 - November 2009

EU Grant: 300 000 euros

 

 

 

COORDINATING INSTITUTION

 

 

École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon

 

(bât. 308) 43, bd du 11 Novembre 1918

B.P. 2077 - 69616 Villeurbanne cedex - FRANCE

Tél. (33) 04 72 43 17 00 - Fax. (33) 04 72 43 16 84

Web site: http://www.cpe.fr

 

Coordinator

Dr. Sébastien GAGNEUR

Tél. (33) 04 72 43 18 30 - Fax. (33) 04 72 43 17 29

Email : gagneur@cpe.fr

 

 

 

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

 

 

 

IQS, Institut Quimic de Sarrià, SPAIN
 

FEUP, Universidade do Porto, 
Department of Chemical Engineering, PORTUGAL
 

PT-DISMIC, Politecnico di Torino, 
Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, ITALY
 

INPL - ENSIC, Institut National Polytechnique de Loraine,
Ecole Nationale Supérieure 
des Industries Chimiques de Nancy, FRANCE
 

INPT - ENSIACET, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, 
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des ingénieurs 
en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques, FRANCE
 

TU Delft, Technische Universiteit Delft, THE NETHERLANDS
 
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University College Dublin, 
National University of Ireland, IRELAND
 

TUM, Technische Universität München, GERMANY
 

University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy 
of Sofia, BULGARIA
 

Jagiellonian University, POLAND
 

Lappeenranta University of Technology, FINLAND
 
Durban University of technology, SOUTH AFRICA
 
 
Kick Off Meeting, CPE Lyon, 15 December 2006

 

 

 

Presentation of the Project

 

 

 

 

CHEMEPASS project Aims

Promote Mobility* and Attractivity* in 
European Chemical Engineering Higher Education through :
Evaluation and recognition of competences :
Development of tools to improve the transparency of programmes 
and the evaluation of competences
Knowledge pedagogy : 
Development of tests of knowledge for training and evaluating the basics
*Mobility within Europe and between Europe and Third countries
*Attractivity of European Higher Education 
versus Third countries Higher Education

 

 

 

 

CHEMEPASS project Target groups

 

The CHEMEPASS tools will be for the use of :

 

nStudents, young graduates and professionals (in LLL),

specialized in Chemical Engineering :

to express their competences, to diagnose their needs for training, to identify the appropriate institution, to self-evaluate

nHigher Education Institutions involved with Chemical Engineering :

to better assess the training needs of candidates and their previous  educational programmes‘ outcomes; to better express the outcomes of their own educational programmes and requirements for applications

nIndustries hiring chemical engineers around the world :

to better assess the abilities of individuals, to diagnose the needs for continuing education of their employees and better identify the appropriate training institution

 

 

 

 

 

CHEMEPASS project WORK PACKAGES

 

Four Work Packages will aim at

ndefining frameworks for the use of HEI's to express the specificities of their educational programmes in terms of Learning Outcomes,

n

nconceiving tools and methods to help the evaluation of competences of an individual person especially competences other than knowledge,

n

ndeveloping electronic tests on knowledge of core areas of Chemical Engineering for self-evaluation, diagnosis, and integration,

 

n

nand initiating a new thematic network, the ECEEN (European Chemical Engineering Education Network), which will disseminate and manage the CHEMEPASS tools, and work on other higher education related issues in the field of Chemical Engineering. 

 

 

 

 

 

CHEMEPASS project EXPECTED outputs

 

Project expected outputs:

 

nCHEMEPASS tools, methods and procedures

n

nLegal entity managing the CHEMEPASS tools

n

nBasis for a new thematic network ECEEN

 

 

 

Rational for the Project :

 

CPE LYON : FCC/FCCE PROject in 2004 - 2006

EFCE : working party on education - core curriculum

ECTN : Echemtest and chemistry eurobachelor

 

 

Within an enlarged and diversified European offer of Higher Education programmes, and within the European historical diversity of industrial placement policies and professional recognition of graduates, the transparency of higher education programmes and the international mobility of students are of high priority in the building of a competitive and attractive European Higher Education Area.

 

CPE Lyon has been working since October 2004 on a project aiming at exploring the interest and feasibility of new tools as possible solutions to the following needs :

What do students need ?

To self-evaluate, to change institution during their studies (often abroad), to apply to the right institution, to have recognition of their competences and credits transferred…

What do Higher Education Institutions need ?

To attract students, to select good students, to integrate them correctly in their educational programmes, and to diagnose needs for learning and training…

What do Industries need ?

To select good candidates with the appropriate training and to diagnose the needs for learning and training as part of the Life Long Learning process…

 

This study produced :

A background for the building of tools, tunable reference frameworks, to improve the transparency of educational programmes and help the evaluation of one’s competences after completing a Bachelor / Master level higher education.

A demonstration version of electronic tests on the fundamentals of some core areas of knowledge in the Chemical Engineering field.

 

CPE Lyon proposed to further develop those tools, Europe-wide

 

The consortium submitting the EM4 application proposed

 

to develop these tools Europe-wide,

to create a legal entity managing the

promotion, control, development and exploitation of these tools,

to initiate a new thematic network in the area of Chemical Engineering

to work on other higher education related issues. 

 

Expected outputs are therefore :

CHEMEPASS tools, methods and procedures

Basis for a new thematic network ECEEN

 
 
 

 

The CHEMEPASS project is a follow-up of the FCC/FCCE Project (see reports below). The Working Party on Education of the EFCE (European Federation of Chemical Engineering) decided in April 2006 to support this CHEMEPASS project.

 

 

The FCC/FCCE Project was lead by CPE Lyon with the support of CEFI from October 2004 to March 2006 and funds from the French Ministry of Education. Its objectives and orientations were

 

to explore the interest and feasibility of new diagnostic tools such as

Knowledge-based Tests

Competence-based Reference Frameworks

specific to the fields of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

 

These tools would be for the use of

Students (and staffs)

Higher education institutions

Industries

 

to improve the comparability of H.E. programmes

to promote the international mobility to help the self-evaluation.

 

 

Within the FCC/FCCE project a Workshop was organized in CPE Lyon in January 2006.

 

 

The CHEMEPASS Project was initiated in the light of the conclusions of the FCC/FCCE Project, including those of the workshop, and the recommandations of the WPE of the EFCE.

 

 

Discussion of the FCC/FCCE Project with the WPE of EFCE

and Lauch of the CHEMEPASS Project

 

Full reports of the FCC/FCCE Project (in french)

Edited by CPE Lyon with the Support of CEFI

Within a Study financed by the French Ministry of Education

from October 2004 to May 2006

 

 

 

 

Work-Shop on Competence-Based Reference Framework for the European Higher Education of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

CPE Lyon, january 2006

 

 

The work-shop organized on the 26th and 27th of January 2006 by CPE Lyon with the support of CEFI and the participation of academic and industrial representatives of the European Chemistry and Chemical Engineering communities, addressed two main goals:

To identify paths towards the definition, in terms of development method, structure and possibly, content, of competence-based reference frameworks which are specific to the higher education programmes in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

 

How to calibrate knowledge tests and to design adequate tools and methods for the evaluation of competences on the basis of these frameworks.

 

The workshop also aimed at initiating of a new thematic working-group gathering representatives of institutions, industries, societies and networks, with the goal to further develop the works initiated in the FCC/FCCE project and working on other projects bridging the gap between the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering fields.

 

Most documents below are in pdf format and in English.

 

CEFI

7 rue Lamennais 75008 Paris
(33) 01 42 89 15 73
 http://www.cefi.org

 

 

Presentation of the workshop
Programme List of participants Map and Venue

 

Introduction
   
Round table one :

Outcomes-based  reference frameworks

Round table two:

Assessment issues

 

Minutes of the workshop discussions
First roundtable (competencies issues)
Second roundtable (industries point of view)

 

Detailed presentations
Documents linked to the building of reference frameworks
Assessment of competencies and skills

 

Documents linked to Reference Frameworks

 

 

 

 

Documents linked to the Assessment of Competences and Skills

 

 

 

 

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