The First Transnational Project Meeting of a project entitled „Innovative postgraduate programme: Addressing market needs and pioneering new delivery modes” was held in Sofia on 12th April 2016.
The Project tends to overwhelm the lack of specialists in the fields of triple-e, through multidisciplinary developments in technical, business, legal and human rights aspects. It aims to establish an innovative postgraduate programme, that will be offered in a number of countries through an online learning and tutoring platform able to unite organizations from different countries.
Representatives from all particating organisations – 3 data protection authorities and two universities from Bulgaria, Poland and Macedonia took part in the event. Lead Applicant is the University for Information Science and Technology St. Paul the Apostle, Ohrid. The Commission for Personal Data Protection was represented by Ms. Desislava Toshkova, Secretary General of the CPDP, Mr. Anton Todorov and Mr. Hristo Alaminov, experts in the „Planning, training and project management” Department.
During the event the parties agreed on the financial reporting of the project implementation and the communication channels among project partners. A review on Project activities progress and deadlines for each Intellectual Outputs was made. Special attention was paid to methods of collecting and summarizing data for carrying out the Study on labour market needs as a basis for subsequent Project activities.
The project is funded by the European Commission, via the „Erasmus +” programme, Key Action „Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices”.