New and Innovative Courses for Precision Agriculture (NICOPA). Project is funded by Erasmus+. Period of Implementation 2018-2021 years.
Coordinator: Temurbek Kuchkorov, Associate Professor
Tel: +998977082210
Email: timanet4u@gmail.com
Website: https://nicopa.eu/index.php
The scope of the project
NICOPA is abbreviated from New and Innovative Course for Precision Agriculture. NICOPA is aimed to modernize curricula in precision agriculture using new technologies: Geographic Information System (GIS), Big Data, Remote Sensing. Improve the quality of higher education and enhance its relevance for the labor market and society, the level of competences and skills in HEIs by developing new and innovative education programs; support the modernization and internationalization of the HE in precision agriculture in the targeted Universities in KZ, RU and BY through innovation of two cycles curricula.
The main purpose
Activities to test innovated curricula and to disseminate the results:
- analyzing and updating existing curricula according to educational needs;
- developing new certified curricula according to the new achievements in the area, the labor market demands and the Bologna Process;
- analyse the educational needs in precision agriculture through problem and job analysis and review the current curricula;
- update the current curricula in precision agriculture;
- develop, implement and accredit curricula including ECTS.
Anticipated project outputs and results
- Review of the current curricula in precision agriculture through analysis
- Agreement on instructional strategy and guidelines for BA/MSc curricula design including the use of new Educational Technologies
- A set of new core curricula and transferable modules including innovative teaching facilities
- Updated current two cycle curricula and programs in precision agriculture according to the Bologna requirements and the new developments
- Developed, implemented and accredited new practice-oriented, student-focused core, and transferable curricula including ECTS
- Bringing the Higher Education Institutions of the partner country closer to labor market. Besides that innovative teaching facilities: a new equipped laboratory PAL, a class VCR, Precision agriculture using sensing data Service Office PASO. Focus on the content, agreed structure, new instructional strategy and the use of new educational technologies with regard to the European modernization agenda for higher education will as a whole function as the envisaged impact.
New Academic content to update current curricula
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# |
Curricula name |
Description |
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Core Curricula |
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1 |
Remote Sensing and Application of Earth and Environment related PA |
8 ECTS; 64 contact hours; 74 hours praxis; 64 hours student workload |
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2 |
Using of SENTINEL 1-2-3 imagery for agricultural field monitoring |
4 ECTS; 30 contact hours; 50 hours praxis; 45 hours student workload |
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3 |
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (NAVSTAR, GLONASS, GALILEO, etc.) |
3,5 ECTS; 32 contact hours; 40 hours praxis; 38 hours student workload |
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4 |
Optimizing computer vision algorithms and real-time implementations |
4 ECTS; 40 contact hours; 35 praxis; 45 student workload |
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5 |
Web technologies (Agro SDI, Geo-portals, Geo-services, Geo-analytical systems) |
3 ECTS; 24 contact hours; 50 hours praxis; 20 hours student workload |
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6 |
Basics of the Precision agriculture – characteristics, technologies, economic efficiency, optimal use of resources |
5 ECTS; 72 contact hours; 40 hours praxis; 42 hours student workload |
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7 |
Yield sensors for Precision Agriculture |
3 ECTS; 30 contact hours; 34 hours praxis; 32 hours student workload |
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8 |
Soil physical properties and its measurement |
4 ECTS; 48 contact hours; 36 hours praxis; 40 hours student workload |
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9 |
Application of Precision Agriculture for crops growing |
4 ECTS; 38 contact hours; 46 hours praxis; 42 hours student workload |
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Transferrable Curricula |
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1 |
Start up initiatives for future engineers |
2,5 ECTS; 30 contact hours; 20 praxis; 20 student workload |
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2 |
Management and Decision Making in Precision Agriculture |
3 ECTS; 28 contact hours; 30 hours praxis; 22 hours student workload |
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3 |
Intensive course to leverage acceptance of the new technologies "in-field" |
2,5 ECTS; 30 contact hours; 20 praxis; 20 student workload |
Partners
16 partner organizations together with 4 associated partners form the consortium of NICOPA. The combined expertise, educational skills and business networks of the partners provide an exceptional foundation for the project success.
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Partner # |
Organization Name |
Acronym |
City / Country |
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P1 |
S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University |
KATU (Coordinator) |
Astana / Kazakhstan |
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P2 |
Technische Universität Berlin |
TUB |
Berlin / Germany |
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P3 |
Agricultural University Plovdiv |
AU |
Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
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P4 |
Ceska Zemedelska Univerztity v Praze |
CULS |
Prague, Czech Republic |
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P5 |
ECM space technologies GmbH |
ECM |
Berlin / Germany |
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P6 |
Shokan Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University |
KokSU |
Kokshetau/Kazakhstana |
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P7 |
North Kazakhstan State University Named After Manash Kozybayev |
NKSU |
Petropavlovsk/Kazakhstan |
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P8 |
Turkmen Agricultural University Named after S.A. Niyazov |
TAU |
Ashgabat/ Turkmenistan |
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P9 |
The Turkmen State Architecture and Construction Institute |
TSITC |
Ashgabat/ Turkmenistan |
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P10 |
Turkmen Agricultural Institute |
TAI |
Dashoguz/ Turkmenistan |
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P11 |
National University of Uzbekistan |
NUUz |
Tashkent /Uzbekistan |
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P12 |
Tashkent University of Information Technologies |
TUIIT |
Tashkent/Uzbekistan |
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P13 |
Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers |
TIIAME |
Tashkent/Uzbekistan |
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P14 |
Ministry of Education and Science |
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Astana/Kazakhstan |
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P15 |
The State Inspection for Supervision of Quality in Education |
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Tashkent/Uzbekistan |
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P16 |
Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan |
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Ashgabat/Turkmenistan |
Associated Partners
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Organization Name |
Acronym |
City / Country |
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North-Kazakhstan Agricultural Experimental Station |
AES |
Chagly, Kazakhstan |
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National Agrarian Scientific-Educational Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
NASEK |
Astana/Kazakhstan |
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State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre |
YGK |
Tashkent/Uzbekistan |
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Centre of Technologies of Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan |
AST |
Ashgabat/Turkmenistan |
Project organizations diagram
