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Activities
Activity 0: Project Management
TUHH is
responsible for the project management and the coordination of the partners
UNIPD, AIT and UPM.
Activity 0.1:
Establishment of Project Infrastructure:
Listing all participant partners and contact persons; listing available
infrastructure such as libraries, PC-programmes etc.
Activity 0.2:
Kick-off Meeting:
At the TUHH in Germany, June 2003.
Activity 0.3:
Interval Meetings:
The planned meetings will be combined with other activities such as training
courses.
Activity 0.4:
Evaluation and Reporting:
Quarterly reports, yearly financial reports and end report.
Activity 1: Teaching Tools for Improvement
of Basic Knowledge of Students
The
associated partner IWWG is organizing the
preparation of a textbook "Solid Waste Technology and Management"
considering all relevant aspects for solid waste technology and management.
Authors are experts from all over the world. Up to now no suitable teaching
book from Europe exists for waste management education. Since the textbook
cannot cover all regional aspects some supplementig booklets focusing on the
specific situation in Asian countries will be developed by mutual work of all
partners.
Activity 1.1:
Preparation of Selected Chapters for the Textbook
The European partners will deliver chapters for the textbook.
Activity 1.2:
Preparation of Supplementing CDs focused on Asian Situation:
Additional sections related to the contents of the textbook will be written
by all partners considering the specific Asian situation in different waste
management disciplines.
Activity 2: Teaching Tools for
Improvement of Specialized Knowledge of Students
This activity
aims the preparation of tools for deepening basic knowledge of students in a
modular system. The modules shall be used in lessons, exercises, master and
PhD-theses. Furthermore the modules shall be useable for students via
internet.
Activity 2.1:
Specialized Teaching Module "Waste Management Inventory":
The module will be developed by TUHH. It allows an easy collection of all
relevant data which are necessary for the development of waste management
concepts. The inventory scheme aims to simplify the collection, because it
contains all necessary key aspects in form of a ”questionnaire”.
The list prevents that important information might not be considered.
Relevant topics of the list are e.g. general data, demography, climate,
vegetation, topography, land use, infrastructure, economy, religion, culture,
languages, media, politics, ecology, problems and hazards, waste management
issues (laws & regulations, amount & composition of waste, collection
& transport, treatment & disposal), waste water and drinking water.
The list ensures the possibility to compare initial situations in different
countries or cities because of considering the same parameters.
Furthermore the programme shall give hints how and where to find information
about the needed parameters. Useable sources for getting information in the
internet shall be identified, evaluated and integrated.
The module will also include a kind of lexicon where all parameters are
described and their need for waste management issues will be explained.
Activity 2.2:
Specialized Teaching Module "Disposal and Landfilling in Industrialized
and in Economically Developing Countries":
The module will be developed by UNIPD. Processes and concepts for sustainable
landfilling, siting and emission control will be presented considering the
feasibility of an appropriate technology transfer to Asian countries with
regard to supply of materials and costs in form of a e-book with interactive
constituents.
Activity 2.3: Specialized Teaching
Module "Composting in Economically Developing Countries":
The module will be developed by TUHH. It will be a kind of guide-tool for
planning a composting facility. It includes planning examples, categorization
of regions, information and data, characterization of the situation, planning
steps, interactive parts (e.g. technologies, dimensions, times) and a
question-module.
The programme shall allow students to plan a composting facility and its
operation modes for different regional cases and for a variety of boundary
conditions. A catalogue of common questions and problems will be contained to
provide help.
Activity 2.4:
Specialized Teaching Module "Virtual Waste Management Facility":
The module will be developed by TUHH. Aim is the establishment of
PC-programme which contains general knowledge of composting under
consideration of e.g. economical, cultural, geographical, infrastructural and
political aspects in Asian countries. The programme shall allow students to
get general information about composting and to plan a composting facility
and its operation modes for a certain regional case (situation-adapted
facilities). Planning examples for different typical cases in developing
countries resp. in newly industrializing countries shall be acquired. A
catalogue of common questions and problems will be contained to provide help.
Activity 2.5:
Specialized Teaching Module "Urban Waste Management":
The module will be developed by AIT. It shall be an e-game which simulates
the following parameters: Waste generation, collection and transportation,
waste processing and transformation, the final disposal, the pollution and
health aspects and the selection of technologies.
Activity 3: Creation of Structures
for the Application of Teaching Modules and for Mutual Teaching
To allow the
application of the teaching modules developed in activity 1 and 2 structures
for their use in the respective universities and in mutual teaching have to
be created.
Activity 3.1:
Structuring of Teaching Possibilities:
Each participant university has a structure for waste management and / or for
environmental education which is more or less developed. The partners have to
be informed about the structure and teaching contents of the others in detail
if mutual teaching projects shall be carried out. Therefore all partners will
use the same questionnaire for evaluation of present structures so that there
is a comparison possible.
Activity 3.2:
Documentation of Experimental Facilities:
Each department is expert in certain research areas and has several
experimental facilities which can be used for the education of students and
for research. The partners have to be informed about the facilities of the
others if mutual teaching projects shall be carried out. Therefore all
partners will use the same questionnaire for evaluation of present structures
so that there is a comparison possible.
Activity 3.3:
Agreements between the Universities :
It is planned to establish bilateral and multilateral agreements for
co-operations in form of memorandums of agreement between all partner
universities. It shall bring forward the students and staff exchange between
Europe and Asia.
Activity 3.4: Establishment of new
Courses:
New teaching materials shall be developed which consider the
internationalisation of education.
Activity 3.5:
Assembling of an Information System for Scholarships:
There shall be an evaluation and documentation of possibilities for students
to get scholarships. Aim is to promote the students exchange of the partner
universities.
Activity 3.6:
Creation of a Multimedia Teaching Portal:
Multimedia, interactivity and net based electronically information and
communication shall be used for quality improvement of teaching. A catalouge
containing multimedia experiences shall be evaluated. Furthermore an
e-learning platform shall be established for the application of the teaching
modules, for providing teaching materials and to allow communication and
interaction.
Activity 4: Application of
Teaching Tools and Teaching Portals in Courses of the Participant
Universities
Activity 4.1:
Intensive Waste Management Training Programme:
A one week training programme shall be carried out by all partners at AIT and
UPM for the public as well as for students and staff from the universities.
The training programme gives the possibility to test the materials created in
activity 1 and 2 in practice together by European and Asian participants for
further application in lessons. Main subject will be basic knowledge of waste
management under consideration of special conditions in Asian countries. The
programmes will be combined with meetings.
Activity 4.2:
Application in Lessons:
The presentation during the lessons will follow the content of the textbook
and of the supplementing booklets (activity 1).
Activity 4.3:
Application of Interactive Tools in Exercises:
The exercises will deepen the theoretically knowledge of students and give
them the possibility to be creative and to develop own solutions by using the
created modules in activity 2.
Activity 4.4:
Application during Practice and Thesis Works:
The knowledge gained in lessons and exercises shall be applied in practice
and in several student, master and diploma theses.
Activity 4.5:
Guest Lectures by Teaching Staff:
Meetings and training courses shall be combined with guest lectures at the
host universities. The lectures shall be open for all interested students and
staff from the host universities. Additional external guests may be invited
to give the possibilities of bilateral contacts. The lectures shall provide
an overview in the field of the presenters expertise and discuss the waste
management situation in the respective country.
Activity 4.6:
Mutual E-Learning Projects:
E-learning platforms shall be used for mutual projects between Asian and
European students.
Activity 5: Exchange to Establish
Curriculum and to Provide Basics for International Experience
Exchanges are
planned for students, postgraduates and staff.
Activity 5.1:
Student Exchange:
Interested students shall get the possibility to gain experiences in foreign
countries by doing their student, master or diploma theses.
Activity 5.2:
Postgraduate Exchange:
Each partner will send a postgraduate for some weeks to Asia resp. Europe.
Information and experiences of the stays will be used for curriculum
preparation, so that the internationality and the different situations in
each country will be considered. During their stays they will learn about
waste management situations in the other country, about the facilities and
teaching systems at the other departments.
Activity 6: Dissemination of
Curricula and Information to the Curricula
Activity 6.1:
Publication of Project Results:
Articles about the project in national and international journals and
magazines regarding environmental issues shall be published.
Activity 6.2:
Distribution of Textbooks and Supplementing Booklets to Partner Universities:
Textbook and supplementing CDs shall be distributed to all partners. Some
shall be given to the libraries of the partner universities for sustainable
use of all students.
Activity 6.3:
Announcement:
In the journal Waste Management advertisements
regarding the textbook and supplementing booklets shall be contained. The
announcement will be done by the associated partner IWWG.
Activity 6.4:
Website:
All important information regarding the project will be included on a
website. The website will be divided in an external and an internal part. The
website will be created and serviced by TUHH. All partners deliver content
and suggestions of improvement.
Activity 6.5:
Brochure:
Each partner shall create a brochure containing information of the available
facilities of the department, teaching courses, curricula and the ASIA-LINK
project. The brochure shall be used for dissemination at conferences,
seminars etc.
Activity 6.6:
Implementation of a Workshop:
A workshop shall be organized during the project period. It shall be held in
the frame of an international conference in 2005 in Italy called the SARDINIA Symposium. The conference considers
waste management issues in general with a focus on landfilling. Furthermore
the part “Waste Management in Economically Developing Countries”
is included. It is planned, that the participants of this ASIA-LINK project
perform a workshop at the conference. The workshop shall cover the subject
“Waste Management in Newly Industrialized, Developing and Less
Developed Countries”. Furthermore it will be used to inform a wide
scientific public about the project and its outcomes.
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