Agreement between the UNWE and A1 Bulgaria under the Project Economic Education in Bulgaria 2030

Friday, 18 February 2022 19:30

The Rector of UNWE Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov and Ivan Ivanov, Senior Director of Corporate Sales of A1 Bulgaria signed an Agreement for the supply, installation and configuration of equipment, furniture and software for digital classrooms and digital laboratories.

The Agreement is concluded following an open procedure under the Public Procurement Act (PPA) for assigning a public contract under project BG05M2OP001-2.016-0004 - Economic Education in Bulgaria 2030.

In accordance with the project, the UNWE should modify its training, respectively the curricula in Economics and Management, in a way that allows them to be similar to programs in European universities and applicable in modern business conditions. Digital classrooms and digital laboratories, which are an indispensable complement to the modern learning process, are to be put into operation.

Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov, Ivan Ivanov and Veselina Lilova, Director of Accounting and Financial Reporting at A1 Bulgaria at the signing of the contract /from the left to the right/

"The main priorities for the implementation of the project Economic Education in Bulgaria 2030 are: digitalization of the learning process, digitalization of the way of teaching and digitalization of the tools and instruments used for teaching", said Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov and noted: "There are several major activities to be carried out at the university, including infrastructural support for this digitalization. Today, we are giving a good start to all the endeavours of the project."

Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov

"At A1 Bulgaria we have experience in implementing this type of projects. We are the main contractor of the programs for digitalization of schools implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science that have been upgraded in stages over the past three or four years - in 2018 we started with 17 schools, currently we have covered about more than 1100, our client is also Sofia University, said Ivan Ivanov and emphasizing that "our cooperation with the UNWE is not only related to the implementation of this project, we also have an interest in the employees that come out of your university. As an employer, we are very interested, because personally in sales and in the technological part, our practice is to take people from the bench, train them, develop them and from there on they stay to work in the company".

Ivan Ivanov

The term to implement the Agreement is up to 30 days and a license for 3 years about the exploitation of digital classrooms and digital labs.

The signing of the Agreement was attended by Vesselina Lilova, Director of the Accounting and Financial Reporting Directorate, on behalf of A1 Bulgaria, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rosen Kirilov, Vice Rector for Digitalization and Cybersecurity, on behalf of the UNWE as well as by Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Kiril Stoychev, Assistant Rector, Svetoslava Filcheva-Ivanova, Director of the Finance Directorate, Krasimir Dimitrov, Director of the Legal and Regulatory Services Directorate and Samuel Avdala, Acting Deputy Director of the Property Management Directorate and Chief of the Public Procurement and Auctions Division.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rosen Kirilov and Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Kiril Stoychev /from the left to the right/

Svetoslava Filcheva-Ivanova, Krasimir Dimitrov, Samuil Avdala /from the left to the right/

The project BGO5M2OP001-2.016-004 - Economic Education in Bulgaria 2030 is funded under the Operational Programme Science and Education for Smart Growth 2014-2020, procedure Modernization of Higher Education Institutions.  The project is worth BGN 5 million. UNWE should modify its training, respectively the curricula in Economics and Management, in a way that allows them to be similar to programs in European universities and applicable in modern business conditions. The updating and modernisation will be done in partnership with other leading regional universities such as D. А. Tsenov Economic Academy - Svishtov, Burgas Free University, National Sports Academy and KRIB. Through this cooperation up-to-date curricula based on digitalization will be created and put into practice. 9 digital classrooms and 3 digital laboratories which are an indispensable addition to the modern learning process will be put into exploitation. It will enable to increase at maximum extent the sharing of resources, including know-how, between partner universities and/or between students and their university lecturers and mentors.

The project relies on the inclusion of a large part of lecturers involved in its implementation in the programs for further training and/or short-term specialization in the foreign partners as the share of young scientists should be at least 15 percent. It is planned to implement 15 joint programs with partner Bulgarian higher education institutions and to introduce 7 new programs with digital educational content, including distance learning. 2 training programs in a foreign language will be introduced in cooperation with foreign universities and scientific organizations.

The project will provide support for students to develop entrepreneurial skills and digital creativity. The project will be implemented for 30 months, and all of the above will contribute to the improvement of the quality of economics education at the UNWE and in Bulgaria as well as to the improvement of the quality of research at the UNWE and other partner universities.

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