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1997 - 2000. One of 45 EU Thematic Network Projects (TNPs) designed to assist each other and share ideas innovations and best practices. (EU Directorate - Education and Culture). 2000 - 2003. ADEE ADEA IFDEA (SEAADE) EJDE. In association with:. Budget DentEd (1997 – 2000)
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1997 - 2000 One of 45 EU Thematic Network Projects (TNPs) designed to assist each other and share ideas innovations and best practices. (EU Directorate - Education and Culture) 2000 - 2003 ADEE ADEA IFDEA (SEAADE) EJDE In association with:
Budget DentEd (1997 – 2000) €370,000 direct funding from EU €500,000 indirect costs DentEdEvolves (2000 – 2003) €750,000 direct funding from EU €300,000 corporate sponsors >€1,500,000 indirect costs
Aims & Objectives • Establish a Thematic Network • Encourage better understanding • Promote higher standards and quality assurance • Assist each other in a European context of development • Share, exchange and debate different educational approaches • Maximize our combined intellectual resources • Provide an electronic bulletin board for exchange of information • Promote best practices in European dental education and research
Prague 2001 A global congress on Dental Education
Prague 2001 report in EJDE in special supplement Nov. 2002 Available free of charge onlineSee link at http://adee.dental.tcd.ie
DentEd III October 2004-Oct.2007 650.540 Euro direct funding from EU 2.675.730 Euro indirect costs
Taskforce I: Profile and Competences for the New European Dentist Objectives: • To tune dental education and establish an agreed profile for the dentist based on learning units, generic and professional competences, and • To seek agreement from European dental schools to this profile through strategic alliances within academic dentistry and the involvement of national competent authorities and national organisations.
TSKF I: Where are we now • Profile & Compet. publ. Eur J Dent Educ. • Translations ready in Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak & Turkish; underway in Spanish, Italian, others. • List of European and National Assoc., ministries of Health, etc. , national coordinator? • Review process starts in 2007, due in 2009
Curriculum-ECTS • Bologna • 3-5-8 model of Bachelor-Master-Doctor • Sectoral Directives • 5 year Undergraduate Programmes • ADEE - 5 Year Programmes • Profile - 7 domains • Major and Supporting Competences • 300 Credits
TASKFORCE II – Curriculum Structure and ECTS Objective: • To develop an agreed approach to the application of a modularised curriculum, including ECTS, that should not impose a single curriculum or single educational approach.
Curriculum structure and ECTS, Part I • Content • 1. Introduction • 2. Methods of teaching and learning • 3. Assessment procedures and performance criteria • 4. Examples of curriculum models • Appendices
Curriculum Structure and ECTS, Part II • Introduction • Teaching and learning • Flexibility • Academic staff recognition and student support • Levels of teaching and learning • Tradit. teaching versus Student Directed learning • Use of Internet and e-learning • Guidelines & Recommendations • Assessment Procedures and Performance criteria • Definitions • Guidelines & Recommendations
Common Credit System Across E U • Developing mechanisms to apply a common credit system across EU • Issues - Different Educational methods - Transferability - Curriculum Structures vary - Level of Integration • Task Force work ongoing
TSKF II: Where are we now • Document Part I approved by General Assembly and in print now in EJDE • Part II, draft document send to all > 200 dental schools • Amendment of text in may, final document send out for approval in Krakow in september 2006 • To be published in EJDE in 2007
TASKFORCE III – Benchmarking and Quality Assurance Objective: • To develop a quality assurance model for the European curricula by identifying and agreeing to indicators for benchmarking. • Draft document send out to > dental schools • Due for approval by GA in Krakow
TASKFORCE IV – GLOBAL CONGRESS Objectives: • To establish a global network in dental education in collaboration with all continental dental education associations and IFDEA • The Global Congress will be held in Dublin in 2007 • This taskforce will manage preparations and prepare a submission to Erasmus Mundus to assist funding for delegates from non-EU countries with emerging economies and poverty. • Programme ready • Speakers engaged • Dublin Casttle ADEE/DentEd sept 4-8, 2007
TASKFORCE V – CREATION OF PERMANENT OFFICE IN DUBLIN Objective: To establish a sustainable permanent office in Dublin that will carry the project after EU funding has ceased. This office will be funded by joining DentEd to ADEE and will be made financially viable from subscriptions from member organisations. • Objective realised !
TASKFORCE VI – DENTAL STUDENTS’ AFFAIRS OBJECTIVE: To maximise the relationship between DentEd, ADEE and EDSA and to obtain student input and feedback on the profile and competences document, the ECTS and curriculum structure document, and to participate in Taskforce III – benchmarking and quality assurance.
Websites: http://dented.learnonline.ie/ http://adee.dental.tcd.ie/