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News archive - Call for Proposals: HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching

Soros Fundation Open Society Institute's International Higher Education Support Program (HESP) invites concept proposals for the Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET) in order to advance teaching and learning in the region. A call addresses academic institutions and groups of academics to submit Concept Proposals of multi-year ReSET projects aiming to start in summer 2008 or during the 2008-09 academic year. Concept Proposals, not exceeding 3,000 words in length, must be submitted to OSI/HESP Budapest office, electronically, no later than October 10, 2007.

ReSET aims to develop and nurture teaching excellence at the undergraduate university level. The program establishes a framework for the long-term collaborative development of scholarly teaching in areas important to the region's undergraduate humanities and social sciences curricula.
The projects originate within the region’s higher education community and actively enjoy its support and all ReSET-funded project activities are hosted in the region.

The projects, as a rule, address a specific topic or a thematic area rather than an entire academic discipline. Especially encouraged are proposals of projects focusing on interdisciplinary exploration of a given subject and new and critical perspectives on traditionally defined subjects and disciplines. ReSET does not support training for professionals or engagement with the applied subjects and areas mainly oriented toward professional training.

ReSET projects involve groups of junior faculty participants from the region and international teams of resource faculty; all participating academics have current teaching positions and are dedicated to the advancement of undergraduate teaching in the region. Resource faculty are recruited for their qualities as “master teachers,” expertise on the subject and involvement in international scholarship. Long-term commitment of the participants and core resource faculty to the projects is essential.

Concept Proposals are invited for the ReSET SEMINARS projects and ReSET CHALLENGES projects, which reflect diverse needs and capacities in different subject areas and in different parts of the region:

For further information and an application, please see the complete call for propsals and ReSET guidelines /application forms and consult with HESP staff.

Call text: www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/news/reset_20070912

Further information:

Open Society Institute
HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching
Oktober 6. u. 12.
Budapest 1051, Hungary
Tel: (36-1) 235-6153
Fax: (36-1) 411-4401
Oleksandr Shtokvych: oshtokvych@osi.hu

Source: e4business

Entry created by Elke Dall on September 14, 2007
Modified on September 14, 2007

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