T-Green
The T-GREEN project addresses the need to reform graduate education in Armenia in support of the Green Deal and enable the shift from traditional to future-oriented, green, and interdisciplinary curricula, as well as by promoting student mobility and designing collaborative degree implementation schemes.
The T-GREEN project aims to address the need for reform in graduate education within Armenia. This reform is intended to align with the Green Deal and facilitate the transition from conventional to forward-looking, environmentally conscious, and interdisciplinary curricula. The project also seeks to foster student mobility and create collaborative approaches to implementing degree programs.
At the core of this project lies the capacity building of national and institutional administrators, decision-makers, policy implementers, educators, researchers, and students. The primary focus is on integrating Sustainable Development Goals related to environmental concerns into policies and educational content.
An additional pivotal goal of the project involves establishing a network that encompasses national authorities, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and other stakeholders. This network will promote both horizontal and vertical collaboration. To achieve this, national and institutional regulations that encourage joint, dual, or multiple degree programs and support student mobility, credit transfer, and recognition will be refined and tested.
A strategic reassessment of the national list of professions will enable the licensing of new, future-oriented, interdisciplinary, and green master’s degree programs. The collaborative structures that are developed will have a lasting impact, extending beyond the project’s timeframe and leading to further initiatives.
The project’s accomplishments will include a comprehensive national and institutional toolkit that facilitates collaborative efforts. This toolkit will undergo testing through the introduction of three newly developed collaborative green educational programs, as well as the reprofiling of eight existing programs to incorporate green modules.
T-Green
Despite the European Union’s targeted efforts to support Armenia in various sectors of environmental sustainability (e.g., EaP Green project, Green action task force, EU-Green agriculture initiative, Green Yerevan–energy efficiency and green buses, etc.), the increase in international funding and green investments (e.g., EBRD and Green Climate Fund, GEFF programme, etc.), and the strategic initiatives of the Government of the Republic of Armenia (RA), most higher education institutions (HEIs) in Armenia have remained indifferent to these endeavours.
The T-GREEN project addresses the priority of “Environment and fight against climate change” by reforming graduate education in Armenia to support the Green Deal, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), EU initiatives, and national policies. The European Commission’s (EC) project priority area centres on the European Green Deal. The project aims to modernize postgraduate degrees with interdisciplinary and collaborative programs that contribute to mitigating climate change and nurturing a skilled workforce for sustainable industries.