THE BOLOGNA PROCESS AND THE DOCTORAL STUDY AT THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

摘要

Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka Since 2005/2006 the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rijeka has been offering the new postgraduate doctoral study which on one hand is based on the tradition of postgraduate studies and scientific research work of the Faculty, and on the other hand it has been adapted to the new European knowledge area and to all demands imposed by the Bologna Declaration. It should be pointed out that the transformation of the earlier existing doctoral study has been partially carried out also as one of the projects supported by the National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia. This has contributed to the quality of the new curriculum since the program of the Foundation enabled the familiarization of the project team members, and through acquaintance with them also of all the teaching staff and Faculty members, with ideas and processes underway at European Universities, both through cooperation with a greater number of experts from institutions within and outside Croatia and through participation at a range of significant meetings: the First European Convention on Present and Future Challenges for Engineering Education and Research in Europe in Florence (November 2005), the 10th IACEE World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education (WCCEE) in Vienna (April 2006) and the SEFI Annual Conference 2006 "Engineering Education and Active Students" in Uppsala (June 2006).