Designing Innovative Pedagogy for Complex Accountancy Topics (DIPCAT)
European call: ERASMUS+
Key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action: Strategic Partnerships
Duration: from 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2021
Applicant Organization: Bournemouth University
Partners
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität (Austria)
- Universidade de Vigo (Spain)
- Université de Bretagne Sud (France)
- Bournemouth University Business School (UK)
- Technological Educational Institute of Kavala (Greece)
- Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary)
- Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
- Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal)
- West University of Timisoara (Rumania)
- University of Urbino Carlo Bo (Italy)
- Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
UVigo team
Belén Fernández-Feijóo
Project coordinator
Silvia Ruiz Blanco
Researcher
Natalia Vaz Ogando
Researcher
Objective
The overall objective of the project is address a gap in Higher Education by creating an internationally-oriented learning platform in accountancy that facilitates current essential hard and soft skill development for early career professionals.
Graduates planning to work in specialist areas of accountancy require specific competencies. They must develop sound subject-specialist knowledge, professional skills, and professional values, ethics and attitudes during their studies. Such competence cannot be acquired through a didactic concept which involves only traditional lectures, seminars and modes of assessment.
We aim to develop a teaching concept that facilitates the development of all competencies to meet the current and future demands in the profession and significantly enhance the employability of engaged students. The technological changes in the profession require graduates to be more digitally competent, commercially and internationally aware, analytical and resilient. The teaching concept will take the changing environment into account. Working as an accountancy professional requires interdisciplinary thinking and problem solving skills, as well as understanding accountancy in different cultures and legislations.