INTEGRITY Project Official Launching and First National Consortium All Partner Meeting

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On December 15th, 2017 an official commencement of the INTEGRITY project took place at Ilia State University; Room E 207. This event was a first national consortium all partner meeting representing 12 Georgian Higher Education Institutions. The aim of the meeting was presenting the project details to Georgian beneficiaries, highlighting project’s financial and administrative regulations and requirements, analyzing work packages and relevant deliverables.

The whole consortium including project’s EU partners will meet in University of Vienna in mid-February 2018 for a week long study tour, TOT and workshop to design the response working packages for this initiative.

Project in Brief
The core objective of the project Academic Integrity for Quality Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Institutions in Georgia (INTEGRITY) is to enhance the quality of teaching and learning processes that are based on the principles of academic integrity and supported by policies, mechanisms and tools that help prevent and detect cases of plagiarism in higher education institutions in Georgia.

Project Core Activities and Outcomes

- Plagiarism Prevention & Detection Electronic Program Introduction in Georgian HEIs: to introduce plagiarism detection and prevention electronic program in Georgian universities, and integration into the existing Moddle system.
- Coherent and Consistent PR Plagiarism Awareness Campaign in HEIs in Georgia to design and launch a PR campaign as an important promotional mechanism that targets both students and faculty/teaching staff.
- Faculty/teaching staff training modules in effective assessment, teaching and learning to enhance student performance against the principles of academic integrity.
- Student Services that aim at developing and enhancing student services and academic writing tutoring opportunities to boost their writing skills with an eye on academic integrity.
- Academic Writing Curriculum Review – HEIs in Georgia will review their academic writing curriculum (bachelor, master and PhD level) against standards and requirements established for written academic communication.
- University Policies and Resources – The project aims at helping higher education institutions shape their consistent framework of policies and regulations that are conducive to quality teaching and learning processes based on the principles of academic integrity. Importantly, it allows universities to develop their resources (e.g. guides) and introduce advanced tools (electronic programmes) to support effective academic instruction.