Link for application: E-Procurement – Consultations – 24-AOO-S020 (marches-publics.gouv.fr)

EQUIP 2 is a €20M EU-funded education programme in Sudan, which Expertise France (EF) is responsible for the teacher training component (component 2 of the programme – €9M, started in June 2021), aiming at improving pre-service and in-service training for Sudanese teachers. Since the conflict erupted in April 2023, the project was directed towards EiE and expanded to neighboring countries (Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia). The activity will result in the development and creation of a varied package of intellectual and scholarly assets including training modules and materials, white papers, policy documents, needs analysis studies and surveys, educational frameworks, strategies and reports that are meant to be disseminated and used for and by the education community in Sudan beyond EQUIP 2. In addition to this, a wide range of training modules will be developed targeting teachers and education personnel in both pre-service and in-service teacher training.

Given the volatile situation, which may render travels from one state or one locality to another difficult, as well as unavailability of beneficiaries to physically attend training sessions and other activities, the Action will provide the opportunity to mainstream digital teacher training and other online activities. This activity consists of the creation of a digital library which will bring together all the educational resources designed within the project to make them available to the different stakeholders (institutional, teacher community, partners, etc.). This library will include downloadable and editable educational resources shared under a creative common licence. It will also include a bank of e-learning courses, such as Massive Open Online Course, which will be created from the same training manuals used to train staff on site. The present activity seeks to consolidate the results of the project in terms of the production and sharing of educational resources for teacher training and to further expand the scope of the activities through access to digital technologies for teacher training and by the promotion of the adoption of open science practices.

General objective

To undertake the design, piloting, implementation, and monitoring of a digital platform and the hosted digitalized contents created by EF and associated implementing partners in the context of EQUIP2 for a variety of purposes and users. The specific EF platform will be hosted by the broader platform owned by the Sudanese ministry of Education and supported by UNICEF.

Specific objectives

1. Designing a digital library/repository that will provide manageable and long-term access to digitised EQUIP2 resources.
2. Leading on the digitalization of the resources and materials to be held in the digital library/repository and ensuring that all content is synchronized and mapped.
3. Collaborating and engaging with the EF team and associated implementing partners in all the processes of collecting, collating, categorizing, and submitting the target materials and resources.
4. Ensuring the proper functionality of the digital library/repository that allows smooth and user-friendly submission and retrieval of the digitized resources for different purposes.
5. Owning/supervising the pilot of the library/repository during the agreed trial period and providing all the necessary admin and technical support.
6. Training of the 20 “testers” per e-learning module / MOOC to use the platform.
7. Managing the technical design and administration of MOOC platform.
8. Leading on the design and development of the MOOC, its interactive content, structure, and learning outcomes.
9. Leading on the design and management of technical MOOC processes and designated users’ interface.
10. Collaborating with the EF team and associated implementing partners to collect and convert the target material into e-based/digitized interactive format that enables self-learning.
11. Owning/supervising the pilot of the e-learning courses during the agreed trial period and providing all the necessary admin and technical support to rercuit X teachers to do X courses.

Anticipated results

At the end of the action, an online platform inclusive of self-learning and interactive digital resources is available for personnel from the Sudanese education sector. The said personnel are versed in using the platform so that they can expand their opportunities of professional development, scientific research in education, and quality assurance in training programmes.