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collections and making it available to a wider public by means of using modern technology. As of 2014, of the four EPAM collections – manuscripts, prints, objects, and photos and audio-visual materials – the data of the latter is available in digital form, i.e. photos of the educational story, glass diapositives with methodological content, diafilms and study films.
An educational programme “School lessons of the tsarist era” was developed and a historical classroom was equipped for conducting museum lessons. The first museum lessons for TU teacher education students also took place within the framework of the new educational programme.
Two exhibitions were hosted at EPAM during the year. The UT Faculty of Social Sciences and Education ordered an exhibition ded- icated to the 125th anniversary of Juhan Tork, an internationally acknowledged Estonian educational scientist. The exhibition was opened on 17 October in the UT Juhan Tork lecture room. The Min- istry of Education and Research ordered an exhibition of Ferdinand Eisen, who worked for 20 years as a Minister of Education, dedicated to his 100th anniversary. This exhibition was opened on 15 Novem- ber at a conference dedicated to Eisen´s 100th anniversary at the Estonian Academy of Sciences (the employees of EPAM also served on the organisation committee of the conference). The exhibition has also been on display at the Tallinn and Tartu offices of the Ministry of Education and Research and also at the annual conference of the Johannes Käis Association.
A total of 2,183 items were added to the EPAM collection in 2014. Two research publications have been published by the museum em- ployees as a result of the EPAM research and development activity, in addition to four research publications that have been compiled on the basis of the collection. A total of 18 academic papers have been completed or nearing completion, two of which are doctoral theses and six are Master´s theses. The museum collections have been used in compiling exhibitions, research papers and publications in 12 the- matic fields. Using the “Historical E-Repository” digital archive that has been in use since 1 September 2014, EPAM collections have been accessed by 1,660 visitors, as of the end of 2014. Both national and international visitors have accessed the collections.
EPAM participated in several projects in 2014. Within the pro- ject “Historical e-repository” 37,894 items were digitised, including photos, glass diapositives, diafilms and films, and the digital archive, which provides online access to the digitised images, was completed. The network of general education schools in Estonia since 1918 until today will be mapped within the framework of the project “330 years of the Estonian language school network”. This project is focused on the accounting years of 1918–1960. A survey on the development
story of nursery schools in Estonia will be conducted in the frame- work of the project “History of pre-school education” with a focus on institutional development of nursery schools, study activity and upbringing, training of nursery school teachers, vivid personalities in promoting pre-school education and sets of ideas of pre-school education during different eras.
4.6 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Tallinn University actively contributes to three international net- works: UNICA (Institutional Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe), EUA (European University Association) and BUP (Baltic University Programme). In 2014, the university termi- nated its membership in IAU (International University Association).
Tallinn University has entered into 54 bilateral cooperation agreements, but no new agreements were concluded in 2014. Within the framework of an application round of “Cooperation with a Part- ner University”, several joint undertakings took place between the In- stitute of Slavonic Languages and Cultures and the Russian State Uni- versity for the Humanities; the Institute of Educational Sciences and the University of Helsinki; the Institute of Social Work and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary); the Institute of Educational Sciences and the University of Latvia; the Estonian Institute of Humanities and the University of Helsinki; the Institute of Information Sciences and the University of Latvia.
In 2014, activities were started on the basis of the new Erasmus+ programme. The administrative procedure of the programme was revised for this and subsequently the payment procedure and the basis for scholarship payment were changed. In order to facilitate student mobility, support was applied for from the Erasmus Mundus programme and granted for the projects ASSUR (target group EU and Syria) and MAYA-NET (target group EU and Latin American countries); the projects are led by Sirje Virkus, a professor of infor- mation sciences.
A total of 74 students commenced studies with the first cohort of the Humeria project coordinated by TU. The first report was sub- mitted to the European Commission, where in the feedback atten- tion was drawn to recognition of studies abroad and their cultural adaptation. Bottlenecks related to the project administration were also identified. The HUMERIA external assessor also conducted a feedback questionnaire among students participating in mobility; the feedback was generally positive.
The European Commission supported the “Kino Eyes” pro- ject, the aim of which is the creation of joint study programme in
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