ESPANT

What is ESPANT?

Espant (European Study Program for Advanced Networking Technologies) concerns a one year postgraduate study programme of 60 ECTS credits. The target group for the ESPANT Study Programme are students who passed a study programme of minimally 180 ECTS credits. The curriculum will be tailored on students who obtained a bachelor degree in an IT related subject – computer science, multimedia, information engineering, telecommunication, etc. Espant is a bachelor level training programme. This means that the emphasis lies on operational objectives rather than on design and research topics.

The  ESPANT programme will be a competence based programme and will be built around six units:

  1. general system management,
  2. implementing real-time media,
  3. integrated security,
  4. mobile and wireless communication techniques,
  5. integrated network storage,
  6. networking infrastructure.

After the project, there is a possibility that each institution in the consortium implements one, two or three units (depending on their expertise), which means that student mobility is essential to finish the complete study programme. This enhances the international and intercultural competences of the participants.

It is the intention to implement  the programme after finishing the project. The different units will be described in ECTS files which outline the study programme. The ECTS files will be based on existing competence profiles. The study material will be uniformly conceived in English. In a trial period, the units mentioned earlier will be taught using a test audience. The outcomes of this trial will be used to adapt the course material to the objectives of the modules.

This makes it possible to start with the ESPANT programme very soon after the project has finished. Once the programme is running in the participating institutions, several other institutions across Europe will be invited to participate in this study programme by copying and  providing the different modules. Students on an Erasmus exchange programme are able to participate in the modules implemented by the guest institution.