University cooperation for a wider Europe

Publication with the results of activities developed in the Higher-Education Curricula Development Project (HECDP), funded by UE within the TEMPUS 2002 Programme. The GENERAL OBJECTIVE of the HECD PROJECT is to contribute to a general Curricula development of Albanian University Staff in the cultural assets' conservation field by sharing knowledge, competence and operational technical ability with Italian and Spanish Colleagues. Special stress has been put on new technologies, aiming at a cooperation process in which all the necessary theoretical subjects could directly reflect on advanced instruments usage. The spread of the project, in terms of number of users involved, has enforced the necessity of multiplying skills through a training of trainers strategy: for this reason the HECD Project has involved the first and more important ring of the high educational training chain, that is teachers coming from Tirana's Polytechnic as well experts from other institutions. At he end of the three years project's duration, in fact, those Albanian institution have accumulated the necessary skills to become a first dissemination centre both for good practices and best outputs to other more peripheral structures contributing to a relevant renewal and updating of graduate or post-graduate courses, and , in perspective, of vocationally and professionally oriented higher education ones.