CompIIT

The way people work and live is changing due to two significant trends: the digital era and the organizational shift towards projects. We live in a projectized and digitalized world. The adaptation of organizations (e.g. companies, but also universities), processes, and technologies is forcing a change process with a tremendous pace on people, companies and nations. The digital transformation is one of major challenges for companies, society and education. Consequently, it requires new forms of management. In order to cope with disruptive elements and jump innovations, projects have proven to be a good tool and a major organizational pattern. Innovations are driven by projects and start-ups are emerging from such projects. An agile and entrepreneurial mindset develops in projects. Another relevant aspect are the international, intercultural and interdisciplinary competencies that are indispensable in a project. Innovation happens in global, cosmopolitan communities. Communication and respective language competences are needed.

Prepare Armenian students for this international, digitalized and projectized working environment by developing their project competences, their international communication competences and their entrepreneurial mindset.

CompIIT addresses the need in Armenia for graduates who are able to work in virtual cross-border projects of the digital era with three core deliverables:

Virtual Project Campus as a digital infrastructure with IT tools and courses
 
Three transdisciplinary project formats for the curricula: innovation project, cross-border project, start-up project
 
The ProCom Language and Communication School

CompIIT will serve these needs by building a virtual, cross-country and cross-university platform with five main outcomes:

A Virtual Project Campus as a digital infrastructure with IT tools for project management and collaboration, including eLearning courses on project management, tutorials, case studies.
 
Three project formats for inclusion into the curricula: innovation project, cross-border project, start-up project. These projects are conducted in interdisciplinary teams with companies.
 
The ProCom Language and Communication School as a virtual entity for delivering the competence in English language project communication.

A Train-the-Trainer programme for teachers who want to use the outcomes.

The Annual Summer School on International Project Management.