CASEDE

Projects Funded Under TEMPUS Scheme
Project Title: Developing Student Career Services in Georgia (acronym – CASEDE)
Project number: 530566-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-LT-TEMPUS-SMGR (2012-3045/001-001)

Coordinator: University of Vilnius (LIthuania)
Project Duration: 24 months, 2012-2014
Project Partners: University of Vilnius (Lithuania), Covinus University (Hungary), University of Essex (the UK), Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Akhaltsikhe State Teaching University (Georgia), University of Georgia (Georgia), Shota Rustaveli Batumi State University (Georgia), International Black Sea University (Georgia), Ministry of Education and Science (Georgia), Shota Meskhia Zugdidi State Teaching University (Georgia), Telavi Iakob Gogebashvili State University (Georgia), Ernst and Young Baltic (Vilnius)

Objectives
The wider objective of the project is to improve Georgian students employability by developing and implementing career education services (CES) in Georgian HEI and ensuring unbiased evaluation of CES, as well as wide dissemination and sustainability of the project results.

The following specific objectives have been formulated for achieving the wider objective of the project:

  • To prepare methodological and IT tools for providing CES for students at Georgian HEI;
  • To train the staff of Georgian partner HEI to provide CES for students;
  • To implement pilot CES for students at Georgian partner HEI;
  • To explore possibilities for CES implementation at all Georgian HEI;
  • To organize dissemination of the project results in periodical press, at the website and using other dissemination channels.

Main Deliverables
  • Framework of Student Career Management Competences
  • Student Career Competences Development Programme
  • Establishment of student Career Education Center
  • Career Staff Training Programme
  • Career Management Guide for Students
  • Student Career Management Guide for Teachers
  • Career Education Information System Specification
  • Career Education Information System
  • Student Questionnaire
  • Career Education Course for Students
  • Career Education Services Implementation Guide

Work Packages
I. Preparation for Management and AdministrationHuman Capacity BuiIding - International Relations Staff
II. Basis for Student Career Education ServicesInfrastructural Measures
III. Development of Career Education ToolsDissemination
IV. Career Education Information System Development and Implemenation
V. Internal Monitoring
VI. Staff Training for Career Education Services
VII. Pilot Career Education Services for Students
VIII. Opinion about Career Education Services for Students
IX. Implementation of Career Education Services
X. Going Beyond the Project
XI. Quality and Evaluation

Department of Foreign Relations is the institutional coordinator and implementer of the project at TSU.
For more information, please contact project staff: 
Tea Gergedava: tea.gergedava@tsu.ge