Project

BUzNet seeks to improve the veterinary medicine high education teaching in Uzbekistan as a way to enhance local living standards applying better veterinary and dairy production control teaching and thus, better technical support for the local herds’ owners with a safer product reaching the general society.

This Capacity Building project, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, aims to improve the quality of learning/teaching in Uzbek HEIs in veterinary/food production with new learning and teaching tools, methodologies and pedagogical approaches leading to a modern contextualized hands-on approach in learning/teaching based on a blended-learning cooperative system.

For this purpose, a team of four European veterinary schools will help the 4 Uzbek partner Institutions with state of the art experience on teaching clinical and reproduction of ruminant farm animals (cattle, sheep and goats) and milk quality control with a cooperative strategy, offering a new learning and teaching environment that will give origin to a new generation of veterinaries and food technology technicians. These will certainly promote a new animal health and production with ecological sound standards that ultimately will benefit the Uzbek population.

BUzNet will improve the veterinary and zoo-technical education in Uzbekistan and provide, to future technicians, the practical instruments and knowledge for being better professionals. The project also seeks to empower them for a lifelong learning and developing of new capacities that ultimately will help the Uzbek society to reach its full potential in a sustainable and ecological sound way.

 

Objectives

 

Wider objective:

• Improvement of the quality of veterinary and animal production professionals in Uzbekistan in order to ameliorate general living standards.

 

Specific objectives:

• Improvement of veterinary medicine and zootechnical high education teaching in Uzbekistan using a Blended learning environment (BLUzVet interface)
• Curriculum update, in order to bring it in consonance with the most advanced strategies of learning and teaching as well as bringing the Uzbek curricula closer to European Higher Education Area standards facilitating the exchange and internationalisation of Uzbek students, teachers and professionals.
• Training of academic staff members from each Uzbek HEI in 4 European Universities
• Improvement of facilities and provide up to date tools to Uzbek HEIs, such as setting up computer rooms for the use of BLUzVet interface.
• Creating of a Project platform (iBUzNet)