6th Call for proposals (deadline – March 26, 2013) TEMPUS PARTNER SEARCH FORM Partner-country General information about region/town Name of university: website: Brief description of university, faculty, department, number of students Relevant information on previous or on-going international cooperation General information Uzbekistan Bukhara region Administrative center - Bukhara city. Bukhara engineering–technical institute of high technologies www.byutmi.uz Nowadays at the institute we have 5265 undergraduate students in 23 directions and 168 postgraduate students in 15 specialties at 4 faculties: «Automation of technological processes», «Technics and technology of oil and gas industry», «Food technology» and «Textile and light industry». 16 researchers carry out their scientific research, there are 25 departments in the institute, from which 19 are graduation, master’s department and retraining center. Teaching stuff are 338 people, out of which 10 are doctors of sciences and professors, 157 are candidates of sciences and senior lecturers. In 2005-2007 the institute executed Tempus project CDJEP–24104–2003 “Curriculum development of master’s degree “Food safety”: Now 4 projects are carried out under foreign grants at the institute. 1. Under TASIS TEMPUS in cooperation with Dresden Technical University, “НЕIСА: Higher Education Initiative for Informatics in Central Asia». 2. In cooperation with Dortmund Technical University, “Modernization of traditions: Uzbek textile heritage as a cultural and economic resource». 3. In cooperation with German Society of International Cooperation project on theme «”Regional network of teachers training in Central Asia countries”. 4. The institute is the partner in the project «530244TEMPUS-1-2012-1-SE-TEMPUS-JPCR ENGITEC: Modernizing higher engineering education in Georgia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan to meet the technology challenge». Contacts of responsible Mr. Adil Safarov, doctor of technical sciences, professor. person: name, title (Mr, Mrs, The professor of « Modern technics and automation of Dr, Prof), position, telephone, technological processes» department. fax, e-mails. E-mail: iiatbp@rambler.ru Mr. Karim Gafurov, candidate of technical sciences, senior lecturer. The senior lecturer of «the Modern technics and automation of technological processes» department. e-mails: kgafurov@yahoo.com Project description Type of the project: Joint Project (JP) Joint Project (JP) or Structural Measure (SM) 6th Call for proposals (deadline – March 26, 2013) Area of project: Curricular Reform (CR), Governance Reform (GR) or Higher Education and Society (HES) Subject area/academic discipline(see Annex 6) Relevance to national or regional priorities Brief need analysis Objectives and activities Curricular Reform (CR) Manufacturing and processing, including: Manufacturing and processing (broad programs); Food processing. National priority for CR JP In 2008-2009 in the industry of Uzbekistan gain rates in small-scale and private business averaged 23-24 %, as for 20052011 in the national economy more than 5 million new workplaces were created. From them more than 60 % is in sphere of smallscale and private businesses where over 75 % of all occupied population is employed. Today more than 90 % of all managing subjects is the enterprises of small-scale business. On its share 22 % of made industrial, 98 % of agricultural production are necessary about 54 % of gross national product. The analysis of managing subjects of small-scale business has shown that 85 % of managers expressed their requirement for highly skilled experts in the area of power and alternative power technologies on complex re-processing agricultural raw materials on food products, fodder and technical purpose, possessing marketing, management, standardization and book keeping skills. It is an actual problem to maintain a developing branch of a small-scale business of Uzbekistan with highly skilled experts possessing fundamental knowledge in area technicians and technologies of food manufactures, capable to operate and project modern complexes of the equipment and technological processes independently. Regarding this, the project urgency is caused by the necessity of training highly skilled experts with marketing, management, standardization and book keeping skills for small enterprises of all regions of the Republic in the area of power and alternative power technologies, such as re-processing agricultural raw materials from food products, fodder and materials for technical purposes. Such experts will provide products, meeting the world standards on quality, package as well as resource and power savings. Thereby small enterprises can count on entering the world market. Basic knowledge and competence of a masters graduate allow it successfully adapt in the market of professional work, and if necessary, to create own small enterprise. After all, reform in higher education of Uzbekistan assumes to release highly skilled experts claimed on a labor market. The project purpose is to train competent experts, technicians and technologies of food manufactures meeting modern level of sciences in a new specialty of master’s in «Food engineering of small enterprises» by introducing new curricula for 6th Call for proposals (deadline – March 26, 2013) Target groups and stalker holders (enterprises, student organizations, for SM – Ministry of Higher and Secondary Speciliased Education of Uzbekistan) If possible information about other HEIs in Uzbekistan to be involved in project the further development of small business in Uzbekistan. It is the primary goal of the present project to train new experts independently obtaining industrial research, scientific and pedagogical knowledge and to train a new profession of managers and experts in the operating small industrial enterprises. It will give the chance to raise the level of technical, technological and economical knowledge of businessmen of the Republic and to develop industrial business. Development of modern power saving and hazard-free small manufacture is a major factor to create new workplaces and to develop the region as a whole. The present project provides working out and state standard introduction, complex curricula for new master’s degree specialties “Food engineering of small enterprises”. Republic small enterprises on agriculture processing and to manufacture of food production and adjacent branches with it. Samarkand institute of economy and service. Tashkent institute of chemical technologies Namangan engineering – technological institute 6th Call for proposals (deadline – March 26, 2013)