European-Turkmenian Advanced Training Center for Oil and Gas Engineering

Ordering party: Fachhochschule des Mittelstands

Implementing environmental knowledge in the European-Turkmenian Advanced Training Center for Oil and Gas Engineering

In the context of an EU R +D Project (TEMPUS) for the construction of an advanced education center for an interdisciplinary professional training in the gas and mineral oil sector in Turkmenistan Prof. Dr. Runge is takong advising tasks as an individual expert.

The setting-up of the European- Turkmenish Centre for Further Education for interdisciplinary vocational training (ETWZ) offers the institutional and organisational basis to teach the necessary professional skills with an interdisciplinary approach to defined thematic circles. The ETWZ will cooperate closely with the educational institutions and the businesses involved and makes Bure the exchange between the European members of the consortium and the Turkmenish cooperating Partners. Thus it is guaranteed that graduates from the Turkmenish university will gain permanent access to international know-how using this for national enterprises and at the same time allowing the university to develop towards internationalisation.

The project is based the development of seminars for further qualification. The seminars offered include the topics transportation and freight forwarding; economics and management; foreign languages for special purposes and computer-based solutions as well as management methods, all related to the gas and oil industries including environmelntal protection. The sustained success of the project and for the institutional integration will only be guaranteed if the contents will be adapted to the existing knowledge and practical experience in Turkmenistan. Therefore all contents will have to be communicated adequately and coherently with the experts of the institution. This exchange will be carried out after the initial phase via the Internet using email communication and video conferences. Explicit aim is the development of a modular system of further qualification based an EU standards which allows the students as well as the enterprises to acquire exactly the required know-how ready to fit their purposes.

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