DECART: Designing Higher Education Curricula for Agility, Resilience, and Transformation NR. 2022-1-FR01-KA220-HED-000087657
The DECART international partnership will foster an understanding of distinct curricula designs in different countries and will examine various education and training systems drivers for change such as curriculum structures.
About the project
The DECART project on designing HE curricula for agility, resilience and transformation, aims to foster stronger education systems by proposing original STEM curriculum models and leadership processes for sustaining educational programme change and transformations. Inherent in the process is the evaluation and promotion of tools to assess and improve agility, flexibility and resiliency of curricula, to better prepare programme leaders amid disruptions to be faced in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguos situations.
PM6 and IPHE3 at Vilnius University
The PM6 Final DECART Meeting will be held at Vilnius University on July 7–8, 2025. Partners will review project results, finalise deliverables, and plan for the project's closure and future impact.
The IPHE3 (Intensive Programme for Higher Education) will take place at Vilnius University on July 9–10, 2025. This programme brings together international partners to deepen their understanding of curriculum transformation, stakeholder engagement, and leadership in higher education. Participants will analyse key components of transformation, develop stakeholder engagement plans, and strengthen their leadership skills to create future-ready and resilient study programmes.
Newsletters
1st project newsletter (English, Lithuanian)
2nd project newsletter (English, Lithuanian)
3rd project newsletter (English, Lithuanian)
4th project newsletter (English, Lithuanian)
Sustainable Management
Concept
Project compostability is an answer to the questions of sustainable project management. Research on this topic is still only recent and methods need to be developed. In this line of research we propose a recycling method that we put into practice concretely in the DECART project. Project compostability is an idea that was born from observing our efforts to reduce our waste leading a reflection on the means of not wasting the energy invested in a project once it is finished and on the imitation of cycles of the nature. Concretely, this consists of certain specific actions to be carried out before, throughtout and at the end of the project. It is a question of deciding on a method to keep as many traces as possible of what the life of the project will have been (data produced, documents, organization, environment, narration, etc.) and to make them available and easily reusable by any interested person.
