D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics in Svishtov, Bulgaria is promoting a blended intensive programme "Blended Intensive Programmes: Taking Stock and Moving Forward” targeted to staff.
The BIP will be held physically in Plovdiv on 20-24 June 2025 and virtually on 30 June 2025 via Moodle.
The main objective of the BIP is to identify lessons learnt from the past BIPs and alternative events. It will provide participants with guidelines and recommendations for sustaining strengths and improving weaknesses in planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating BIPs. The event will be organised as thematic workshops and working groups. It will cover topics that vary from finding the right BIP idea and target group, choosing the role in the BIP partnership, using reliable resources for exploring good practices, composing an effective partnership, describing the BIP, choosing the optimum number of participants, finding the right time and channels to communicate the BIP, choosing the venue, managing IIAs, MAs, and LAs, managing applications and registrations, funding the BIP and providing services to the participants, defining an agenda, hosting the participants, overcoming the obstacles, collecting and analysing participants’ feedbacks, evaluating and reporting the BIP.
The BIP will be more applied-oriented and use-inspired, focusing on guidelines on how to organise and implement useful, inspiring, and memorable BIPs. It relies mainly on experiential learning, gamified project-based learning, collaborative learning, and role-playing instructional strategies. Participants could learn through collaboration and experiences, as well as through the exchange of good practices. They will work in teams of 2-3 people and could earn badges for their performance. Each group will evaluate the BIP agenda/design/detailed plan proposed by a peer team.