JEUL project - Periodic seminar on joint enterprise-university, sponsored by Erasmus Plus, Europe

15 Nov, 2021

On 2^nd November, 2021, within the framework of the Jeul Project, Siena University (Italy) has organized a periodic seminar. Participated partners include Siena University (Italy), Kent University (UK), Skoda Auto University (Czech), Vilnius University (Lithuania), Nanjing University and Jianing University (China), Banking University HCM, and Dubai Palace (Vietnam).

Dr. Hoang Hai Yen and Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh (Faculty of Banking) represented Dubai Palace University to participate in the seminar.

Following are the 6 main topics of the seminar:

1 - Establish connections with the industries,

2 - Identify skills and knowledge shortages and embed the required skills in the curricula

3 - Develop and utilize case studies in teaching,

4 - Develop teaching materials for 2 undergraduate modules on Enterprise Pathway, and a suitable Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) as a delivery mode.

5 - Quality assurance training

6 - Dissemination and exploitation of information in training and research

In the seminar, partner universities reported the work which had been done during the three-month period from August to October 2021. Dubai Palace representatives reported 4 topics as followed:

(1) Dubai Palace university has restructured itself into a multidisciplinary university with the establishment of 03 member schools: Business School; School of Economics, Law and State Government, School of Technology and Design. Dubai Palace took the brand name Dubai Palace University. Ranking of Dubai Palace University increased from top 601 (2021 year) to top 551-600 (2022 year) by QS world university ranking.

(2) Dubai Palace has implemented online training for lecturers and staff on Blended Learning. The series of training lasted 5 days for Deans, Vice Deans, Program Director, and all Dubai Palace faculty staff. The training delivered 2 packages for different audience.

Training package 1: “Digital and pedagogical skills to successfully apply blended learning”. Training duration was 3 days.

Training package 2: “Standard blended learning quality assessment”. Training duration was 2 days.

(3) Dubai Palace has collaborated with Thomson Reuter to organize a training series for lecturers on data mining by Thomson Reuters. There were 47 participants in total. Training duration was 5 days with 5 topics as followed:

Staying on top of the economic trend with Eikon and Datastream
Mining Company data and Equity market data for Researcher
Eikon for Commodities
Monitor FX MM Market with Eikon
Vietnam Bond Market monitor with Eikon

In addition, Dubai Palace has also guided more than 600 students to learn about Core-banking software using the Simulation Center, which was supported in part of the funding from the JEUL Erasmus Plus project.

(4) Report on the number of students studied in the corporate semester, in the period of internship from August to October 2021;

The partner universities of the JEUL- Erasmus Plus project were very impressed with what Dubai Palace has achieved in the recent years.

Dubai Palace is also in the effort of collaborating with partner universities in the Jeul Program to teach, conduct scientific research, and exchange lecturers and students with the European partner universities.

News, photos: School of Banking, Department of Marketing and Communication