Curriculum design Transnational Meeting

On 1st and 2nd of July 2021, the first Transnational Meeting of the HELPSec project was held at the Military Academy in Lisbon.Four project members from Rakovski National Defence College and six from the Military Academy worked face-to-face, joined online by two English teachers from Swedish Defence University.The agenda included the following activities:

Day 1:

• Reviews of the Project activities and progress so far presented by the Project Managers of the partner institutions: Dr Valentina Georgieva, Dr Sofia Menezes and Karolina Karstrom.
• Review and update of the Project Management Schedule (PMS) after the approval of the Bulgarian National Agency for extension of the project with six months – till 28.02.2023. The new deadlines were agreed on plus new dates for the following transnational meetings.
• Curriculum design process. The following table and rubrics were agreed on: General information about each module plus Unit at a glance with Theme and Outcome objectives, and Detailed allocation of the learning contents and time.
• Resolution: by 30.08.2021 partners will present at least one detailed curriculum of 1 Unit following the agreed template.
• Practical workshop: designing and uploading activities on the LMS project platform facilitated and guided by Col. Petko Dimov and LtCol Georgi Marinov.

Day 2:

• Discussions on different aspects of the Joint Curriculum with respect to: the way of presenting specialised target vocabulary from each Module and Unit, grammar points (to be included in the Curriculum for reference purposes only), final Module tests (to be 45 mins and to test the target vocabulary), and the pass grade (to be settled at the next TM).
• Planning the next steps of the HELPSec project, i.e. the next TM, project FB page, promoting the project activities and disseminating the project outcomes at various events.

At the end of the meeting all participants agreed that the TM was very fruitful and useful for accomplishing the HELPSec project aims. They expressed their satisfaction with the results of the first TM and their special gratitude to the hosts for the perfect organisation of the event.