1. Structural Development of the Third Cycle Based on Salzburg Principles 1 Prof. Marine Balasanyan VERITAS Project Management WORKSHOP ON PhD PROMOTION TOOLS PROJECT NEXT STEPS, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT 16 JUNE 2014 - 17 JUNE 2014 YEREVAN, ARMENIA

2. 2 Capacity Building of HEIs to Deliver Quality Doctoral Porgrammes Establishment of Research Units for Doctoral Education (AM HEIs, to finalize the documents for the Research Units) Selection of Research Unit staff (role and responsibilities of the RU staff) Development of a training package on Salzburg principles and PhD Promotion Training on "Salzburg Principles” (final version of the training kit) WP1 (WUS)

3. 3 Capacity Building of HEIs to Deliver Quality Doctoral Porgrammes WP1 (WUS) Workshop "Promoting PhD: Why? And How?" Procurement of Artificial Business Intelligence (ABI)

4. 4 Establishment of preconditions for quality PhD education and research Fact finding on PhD implementation in EU and Armenia Definition of University Roadmaps Training on "Roadmap Implementation" Guidelines on roadmap development and implementation methodology WP2 (HU) WORKSHOP ON PhD PROMOTION TOOLS YEREVAN, ARMENIA

5. 5 Formulation of Award Criteria and Quality Standards in Doctoral Education Seminar "Award Criteria and QA in PhD" Development of award criteria for PhD Development of quality standards in PhD in Armenia WP 3 (BSU)

6. 6 Formulation of Award Criteria and Quality Standards in Doctoral Education Seminar " Internal QA in PhD” Introductory training for external assessors WP 3 (BSU) In-house trainings for internal and external assessors

7. 7 Development of 11 PhD programs in Armenia Identification of PhD programs and task forces Study visits by task forces to EU HEIs Inter-project coaching Pilot projects: Development of PhD programs External initial evaluation of 11 PhD programs WP4 (KTH) Launch of the 11 PhD programme

8. 8 Quality Control and Monitoring Questionnaires at events and during study visits, respective analysis Self-evaluations at consortium meetings Annual quality expert control by the granthholder and WP leader Intermediate and final reports to EACEA WP 5 (ANQA) WORKSHOP ON PhD PROMOTION TOOLS YEREVAN, ARMENIA

9. 9 Dissemination Establishment and operationalization of the project website Project Newsletters Dissemination via local media Guidelines on a PhD programme establishment and implementation methodology WP 6 (UdG) Dissemination conference

10. 10 Sustainability Integration of the Research units into the university structure Adoption of the 11 PhD programmes by respective University Academic Councils Adoption of PhD award criteria and quality standards by Armenian major providers: HEIs, RA SCC and MoES ANQA, RA SCC and NASRA validation of 11 PhD programmes WP 7 (RA SCC, NAS RA)

11. Management of the project Project management, coordination and administration Meetings of Project Consortium Report on Factual Findings (audit) WP 8 (YSMU) WORKSHOP ON PhD PROMOTION TOOLS YEREVAN, ARMENIA

12. WORKSHOP ON PhD PROMOTION TOOLS YEREVAN, ARMENIA VERITAS Project Management veritas.mngt@gmail.com

13. WORKSHOP ON PhD PROMOTION TOOLS YEREVAN, ARMENIA