Project “Establishment of training and research Centers and Courses development on Intelligent BigData Analysis in CA”, ELBA is aimed in improving academic capacity of professionals through developing and implementing multidisciplinary package of module based courses for bachelor, master students and professionals of engineering on Intelligent Big Data Analysis (IBDA) in Central Asia countries via collaboration with the industry.During project multidisciplinary package of the module based courses on IBDA for bachelor and master programs in 10 universities and industry companies in Central Asia will be developed. IBDA Centres in each of the partner countries’ Higher Educational Institutes and academic and professional network of IBDA specialists of Central Asian partner Higher Education Institutes will be established as well.Consortium of the project consists of partners from 3 EU and 10 CA countries’ universities and 11 nonacademic partners from the industry and education.

The Bologna process and EHEA brought necessary reforms to improve engineering education in Russia and Tajikistan. But despite obvious increase in attractiveness for young people engineering education is still facing many challenges. Drop-out rate among students majoring in engineering is almost 25%, employment rates for bachelor graduates decreases due to unwillingness of industry to employ engineers with 4 years of education, teaching staff is ageing and universities fail to create an effective system to retain young PhD graduates in engineering disciplines to perform teaching and research. One of the major unsolved problems behind these challenges is the deterioration of teacher training system in PC universities and irrelevance of teaching methods employed for engineering disciplines in Russia and Tajikistan. The answer to this problem is two-fold – modernization of pedagogic training of PhD students and development of sustainable system of lifelong education for university teachers of engineering disciplines. EXTEND seeks to promote a change in a system of pedagogic training of university teachers in engineering in RF and TJK through modernization of PhD programs curriculum and development of sustainable system of teacher re-training and consultation support by Network of Centres of Excellence in Engineering Education. The priority aim of the EXTEND project is to enhance the quality and the effectiveness of teaching. The project is targeted at solving of three specific problems: 1)The development of comprehensive model and descriptor of the competences of the university teacher of engineering disciplines;2) The establishment of Network of Centres of Excellence in Engineering Education (EXTEND centres) offering training courses, research and consultations in teaching engineering disciplines in PC HEI. 3) The development of training program for PhD students and university teachers in teaching engineering disciplines including MOOC.

Central Asian universities could become those sites where the interest of different stakeholders – potential employers, government and youth could meet each other. An innovation and research is what modern society asks for. Creation of the Youth Centre will allow young people who usually don’t have appropriate knowledge, experience and funds to start their own business or develop any project to do it within these centers – develop a business model and start a micro or small business or non-commercial company. This is should not be just/or only a business idea - focus could be made either on social development, urban communities or environment. Within the project students will receive instruction on the fundamentals of leadership and business, normative and legislative support, while also investigating and articulating their own priorities and values. Over the courses, classes, speaker programs, and other experiences help build advanced leadership skills and develop awareness of how business works. Development program will become three-year program that will push students to set and achieve ambitious goals for their own advancement as leaders.Develop an online platform where students could upload their works and proposals for potential investors or any other interested parties. Those projects that are highly demanding or could bring much advantage in social context could be supported/financed and developed by university, government or private business companies.The program is expected to: develop students’ leadership skills; create the system of consultancy for newly developed and up-running enterprises; support start ups of universities’ students; create and develop University Innovation Consulting.Units responsible that will provide students with all necessary knowledge, consultant service, courses, equipment, market research, legal and managerial advice during several stages of the process of their project. Those are: development, approbation and start.

MIETC outcomes will fill the gaps in relevant knowledge and skills of local HEIs, students and business in Industrial entrepreneurship and its ability to be constantly linked to the market. The project’s aim is to strengthen academic capacity of HEIs in Industrial Entrepreneurships in Central Asia by the development and implementation of interdisciplinary Master program and to establish sustainable cooperation between partner´s HEI and labor market