IRSCA Gifted Education invites all media representatives and all interested stakeholders in the project to participate on April, 16th, 2009, at 15.30 pm, to the press conference to cover the final presentation with the final conclusions and recommnedations of the audit. The meeting has the purpose to make visible the center and draw the attention to it from the insitutional, private and business sector and to launch the necessary collaborations to set it up.
IRSCA Gifted Education annouced as client organization the launch of the consultative project to audit the development plan of the first Gifted Education Center as a non-profit private and independent institution in Romania, in collaboration with Central European University Business School and Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School.
The project is included in a „Global Consultative Project" to gather the efforts of a multi-cultural team of 5 members on 2 continents.
The project covers 12 weeks from January to April 2009, with online collaboration taking place during the first 11 weeks and the teams working at the organization venues during the final week of the project. The MBA students are supported by faculty members from both CEU and Johns Hopkins University who will monitor the learning platform and provide guidance, direction, and learning modules as needed during the project. During that final week (April 13-17, 2009) participants will engage in work with their teams and will visit their designated client organizations to gather additional information, test assumptions, and gain feedback on preliminary recommendations. This program is part of a larger learning platform in the MBA Fellows program at Johns Hopkins where the experience is focused on project-based learning designed to meet identified learning outcomes measured through authentic performance-based assessment.
„This consultative project is a major opportunity coming from two prestigious business schools to audit the project and to elaborate on the opportunity to initiate the center. It also proves our involvement to set-up this important institution which has a high potential for gifted children and for Romania. Romania is today probably the only European state to largely export intelligence without having a non-profit independent private center to support and nourish the intelligence and talent of children. The project has the international recommendations to start, and the support coming from the international gifted education network as well as the support of the education network of the EDUGATE consortium in Romania. The Audit represents our approach of professionalism on setting-up the center and will consitute our reference to international institutions and the business community on its feasibility of investment and financing." – Monica Gheorghiu, Project Manager, IRSCA Gifted Education.
„Taking the fact that the level of education and professional development in Romania reached an all time low, being ranked among the last performing in Europe, the necessity to build such a center, uninfluenced by political fluctuations, becomes paramount and pressing in order to support a national future and to solve national and global crises. The audit of the project must be performed on the dimensions of the center, as well as on the types of programs, the financing needs, the internal and external partnerships with third parties, strategic directions of development necessary to the center before its start; it must also analyze the potential of mental and cognitive abilities of high potential among the young, the network of stakeholders that can be activated, the intial and sustainable sources of financing from Romania and abroad to support an on-going development of a National gifted education program, the legislation in state on gifted and gifted education as well as the laws in process of adoption on this subject, the level of practical application of the current legislation on gifted education in Romania, and the obvious need to run a pilot project and get support from the civil society, the network of specialists to support the education reform programs in Romania. It will also take into consideration the feasibility of the project in conjunction with developing the external network of collaboration with Romanian communities abroad and international specialists. The project will constitute the basis of a strategic plan to reprofessionalize Romania."- declared the President of IRSCA Gifted Education and EDUGATE, Professor Florian Colceag, MA.
"We feel that the role of a University is not only to provide training to individuals, but to contribute knowledge to society as a whole. Through projects such as the Johns Hopkins University / CEU Business School Joint Consulting Project, we are able to accomplish both. We also believe it is important for our students to learn that the local community and those who are developing into tomorrow's leaders are just as important a stakeholder in any firm as the shareholders and owners." declared Oliver Olson, MBA, MBA Program Director, CEU Business School.
„To advance the national economic interests of Romania, it is of strategic importance to develop an institute of international stature to cultivate a critical mass of talent in the country. We are pleased to be involved in establishing the first dedicated gifted education center in the nation. By partnering with the community and helping its outstanding children develop their talents, we are convinced such a center will provide a model for revitalizing education in Romania. The assistance being sought to support these children will, through their eventual contributions, be a positive and transformative force in society" declared the team of the Johns Hopkins University & CEU Business School Joint Consulting Project.
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins University remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Almost since its inception, The Johns Hopkins University has offered an innovative business education. The Carey Business School builds on the Johns Hopkins University tradition of excellence in practice and research. Building on nine decades of business programs at Johns Hopkins, the Carey Business School began operations on Jan. 1, 2007, thanks to a $50 million gift from Johns Hopkins trustee emeritus and W. P. Carey & Company LLC Chairman Wm. Polk Carey, through his W.P. Carey Foundation.
WEB: http://carey.jhu.edu/
CEU Business School
The CEU Business School is part of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1989 (under the name International Management Center, or IMC) by George Soros and a number of business, academic and political leaders. The School offers a full-time, part-time and executive MBA, as well as an MSc in IT Management. The School is very international, recruiting students from all over Central and Eastern Europe. MBA students at the school may also study on exchange in western Europe and North America.
WEB: http://www.ceubusiness.org
IRSCA Gifted Education
Non-profit association with the mission to support gifted and talented individuals to reach their full potential. Member of WCGTC- World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. Member of ECHA - European Council for High Ability. Member of Asia Pacific Federation of the WCGTC. Partner to UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Initiator and founder of EDUGATE – The Romanian Consortium for the Education of Gifted and Talented Children and Youth (www.edu-gate.ro). International letters of support: www.supradotati.ro/scrisori_sprijin.php
WEB: www.supradotati.ro
