Abstract:

Research background: Most of the educational activities in the globalized world are subject of international projects and collaboration between multicultural teams of teachers and/or researcher The project management turns from additional and optional skill for the educators into primary and necessary experience developed during more or less successful attempts of internationalization of education, mutual recognition of diploma, and any other managerial effort for the permanent upgrade of methodologies, approaches, and technologies in high education filed. The programs providing financing for educational activities at the national and international level have been seen as the only opportunity for improvements on the ground of know-how transfer or shared experience and educational innovations. The main challenge faced by the projects' teams, especially in the post-totalitarian countries refers not to the lack of resources for the significant transformation of the existing educational practices, neither to the establishment of efficient partnerships and networks but mainly to the quality management of the education projects implemented in an international environment. The most often met constraints and difficulties concern the adaption of the internal institutional rules and procedures to the project management logic and the need for the establishment of a suitable transparent quality monitoring system, management, and assessment, appropriate to the international dimensions of project execution.

The main purpose of the article is to present a model of user-friendly and easily adaptive quality management of educational projects which does not affect the intra-institutional rules and procedures and in the same time is based on new technologies and collaborative approach which are essential for the contemporary international projects.

Methodology and findings: the paper is based on the experience of the authors in the implementation of the international project "Enhancement in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetic Practice in Palestine" (ECNAD) financed under the Erasmus+ program, as well as the large experience of Ruse University (Bulgaria) in managing projects and collaborative networks. The main methods in the paper are diachronic and comparative analysis and case study research with systematic analysis.

Keywords:

Education, project management, quality management, internationalization.