The Twinning project hosted the first mission under the Component 2 Pilot Study Programmes in Priority Areas are Improved to be More Student-Centred  from 1 to 5 April 2019.

The mission under the Activity 2.4 Develop a methodological compendium on how learning outcomes are identified and designed, which will guide people responsible for development and review of programme in implementing a student-centred approach was implemented by short-term expert Inga Juknytė-Petreikienė, a higher education expert at the Lithuania-based European Social Fund Agency.

The objective of the mission was to support the transformation of current national study programmes in selected areas from discipline-oriented towards competence-oriented and student-centered ones.

During the misson week workshops were organized at pilot universities (Baku State University, Azerbaijan Sate Pedagogical University and Azerbaijan Oil and Industry University) for the academic staff who contributed to development of study programmes which have been selected as pilots by the Twinning Project. The workshops focused on identifiying levels for writing learning outcomes (based on AZQF), presenting best European practices on learning outcomes identification and design and aligning of learning outcomes with the programme/module/course activities.

At the end of each workshop the members of academic staff of pilot universities were asked to write learning outcomes for the competenes which have been listed in a new version of study programmes in priority areas developed by the Twinning experts in line with the best European practice.

The learing outcomes to be written by academic staff of the pilot universities for the new version of study programmes are planned to be further dicussed with the Twinning experts during the upcoming missions and incorporated into the new study programmes.