LEPL - National Center for  Educational Quality Enhancement participates in the ERASMUS+ Capacity Building project ,,Strengthening Capacities for the Implementation of Dual Education in Georgia's Higher Education (DUGEOR)."

The goal of the project is to integrate dual education into the higher education system in Georgia; enable students to acquire more relevant knowledge and skills through dual education; improve legal framework: enhance the legal framework and accreditation standards in Georgia to adapt to dual education; develop the DUGEOR model; create a generic model of dual education tailored to the diverse needs and interests of students, companies, and higher education institutions (HEIs) in Georgia, and provide recommendations to HEIs for implementing dual education.

The project consortium consists of 16 members, including:

• 4 foreign universities - ((UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU; UNIVERZITET PRIVREDNA AKADEMIJA U NOVOM SADU - Serbia; FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH - Austria; DUALE HOCHSCHULE BADEN-WURTTEMBERG - Germany)
• 5 Georgian universities - GEORGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC AFFAIR FOUNDATION; BATUMI NAVIGATION TEACHING UNIVERSITY; IAKOB GOGEBASHVILI TELAVI STATE UNIVERSITY; BATUMI STATE MARITIMEACADEMY; GEORGIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY.
• 5 partner organizations - VENGO GROUP; INTERLOGGEORGIA; SHUMI WINERY; WILHEMSEN SHIPS SERVICE; LEPL NATIONAL FORESTRY AGENCY

The work plan of the project consists of seven working packages: project management; research and needs analysis; generic dual higher education model (DUGEOR model); creation of legal and strategic Framework for Implementation of dual higher education; pilot testing of the generic DUGEOR model; quality assurance and monitoring; dissemination and exploitation of results.

Partner countries representatives are Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA); Georgian Technical University (GTU); Batumi Navigation Teaching University (BNTU); Batumi State Maritime Academy (BSMA); Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (TeSaU); Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia (MoESY); Vengo group (VENGO); Wilhelmsen Port Services Georgia LLC WPSG; INTERLOGGEORGIA INTLOG; Wine Company „SHUMI“; LEPL - National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (NCEQE); LEPL – National Forestry Agency.

This project started on January 1, 2023 and will end on December 31, 2026.

Project website: https://dugeor.ge