Sven Wallasch, a head of project (in center in photo), said that the main goal of the center is to organize training of high skilled specialists in preserving buildings, constructions, cities and historic monuments, planning city and regional construction, development of technical infrastructure and object management in Uzbekistan in line with the German educational standards and national laws of Uzbekistan, as well as national programme on training specialists.

The project is implemented at the financial support of German Volkswagen Foundation with the participation of two largest architecture institutes of Uzbekistan – Tashkent Architecture-Construction Institute and Samarkand State Architecture-Construction Institute, as well as four German universities – University of Bamberg, Technical University of Dresden, Postdam Specialized University and Bauhaus University Weimar.

He said that within the training, the students will learn European and Uzbek technologies and methods of planning to develop ability and competence of the specialists.

Sven Wallasch said that the training at the center will be held at Tashkent Architecture-Construction Institute in German language with teachers from higher educational establishments of Germany. About 90% of teachers of the center will be specialists from Germany.

Curriculum was adopted in line with the German educational programmes and German standards on modular education with 120 credits in line with the European Credit Transfer System.

He underlined that the students will study in Uzbekistan in the first, third and fourth semesters, and in Germany in the second semester. German side will cover all travel and living expenses of 20 students and up to four teachers and specialists.

Wallasch underlined that the graduates of the Uzbek universities in such directions as construction, architecture and similar directions with Bachelor or Master degrees, as well as with basic knowledge of German can enroll to the center. He added that the students should have knowledge of German at the level of A1 certificate. He said that before beginning of academic year, the students will attend four-month mandatory German language course, which will be also financed by the German side.

Wallasch stated that 20 students will enroll to the center on competitive basis. He said that the applications for enrollment will be received till 27 February 2012. The students will be selected based on exams on specialty and German language. German language exams will be taken based on existing German requirements.

He said that the entrants should submit photo, application, motivation letter, copy of school certificate, diploma on Bachelor or Master degree, own project and certificate on knowledge of German language.

He said that the cost of education is 750 euros per semester and students will study only on contractual basis.