2010 - ERCIS

Report on EU-funded Project “TEMPUS POMBI”
well received by Russian
students. An evaluation of
the jointly-taught lectures
received top marks from 2/3
of the students. “We are convinced
that our students can
get an even deeper insight
in the topic of ‘Enterprise
Architectures’ using the new
Material from Münster,” says
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gromoff
of the HSE Moscow. All three
courses will be included in
the newly-developed cur-
From left to right: Prof. Dr. Victor Nikitin (HSE), Mathias riculum and will be taught
Eggert, Matthias Voigt (both University of Münster), at the Higher School of Eco-
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gromoff (HSE)
nomics as well as in other
Russian universities adopting this curriculum.
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TEMPUS POMBI
The EU-funded TEMPUS project “Process
Oriented EU-RU Master in Business
Informatics” (POMBI), which started in
2008, was successfully finished with the
signing of a double-diploma agreement
between two of the project partners,
the University of Münster, Germany and
the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in
Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Furthermore, two other partners – the
Universitée de la Méditerranée in Marseille,
France and SAP as an educational
partner – also contributed to the success
of the project. The objective of the POMBI
project was to develop and implement a
new, practice-oriented curriculum “Master
of Business Informatics” at Russian
universities according to the Bologna
requirements. In addition, the project
fostered the relationship between the
project partners regarding educational
and research-oriented goals.
A major part of the project activities
concerned the development and implementation
of new courses for the Master
of Business Informatics curriculum
and the joint teaching of these courses
for Russian students. Overall, three new
courses have been developed: “Information
Modeling,” “Business Simulation”
and “Enterprise Architectures.” The lectures
held by lecturers from Münster in
Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod were very
Furthermore, the project seminar practice
was adopted by the Higher School
of Economics. This practice is an integral
part of the Münster curriculum in Information
Systems. It allows students to
self-dependently work on a real-world
project with practice partners during a
semester. This way, the students not only
apply the theoretical knowledge from
their studies in a real-world environment
but are also motivated to train their timemanagement
and organizational skills
by working in a team on the solution to
a given problem. During the project practice
implementation within the TEMPUS
POMBI project, a joint project seminar
of German and Russian students with
SAP and the South Russian
Center Invest Bank
worked together on a project
dubbed “proveIT.”
The goal of proveIT was the
analysis of process-oriented
optimization possibilities
in the banking sector
in connection with the implementation
of companywide
IT solutions. The students
worked together over
the course of six months,
spending part of this time in
Russia and another part in
Germany. Both the students
and the practice partners
were very pleased with the results of the
project.
Another major goal of the POMBI
project was the implementation of a
double-diploma agreement between
German and Russian universities. This
agreement was signed in October, 2010.
It will enable students from the University
of Münster and the HSE to achieve
a double diploma from both universities
by spending one year of their Master
studies at their home university and the
other year at the respective host university.
Doing this successfully will earn the
students both the title of “Master of Science
in Information Systems” at the University
of Münster and “Master of Business
Informatics” at the HSE. During the
EU-funded pilot phase, seven students
from the HSE already completed one
year of their studies in Münster and
are currently completing their studies
in Russia. More students have already
been accepted for the double-diploma
program, documenting the great interest
in this program and ensuring its continuance
beyond the funded phase.
Overall, the project yielded very positive
results for all project partners. “We
are glad that our course contents were so
well received. Furthermore, discussions
with the HSE professors provided points
of contact for an intensification of our
contacts with our Russian colleagues,”
says Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker.
From left to right: Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker, Prof. Dr. Ursula
Nelles, Prof. Dr. Valery Kalyagin, Prof. Dr. Eduard Babkin,
Irina Thome