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9 YEARS OF CEI UNIVERSITY NETWORK (CEI UniNet): Academic Cooperation through Mobility

Presentation by

Tania Pibernik, CEI Executive Officer

12 October 2012

 The Founding Charter of the “CEI University Network” was submitted to the CEI Summit of the Heads of Government in Warsaw in November

• 2003. The Network officially started its operations in 2004.

 The CEI University Network - funded entirely by Italy - is a contribution to higher education in order to enhance cooperation among universities and institutions of higher learning in its Member States.  Carried out through mobility of students and teaching staff who are

• ffered scholarships and grants for specific post graduate level Joint

Programmes:

• Master’s
• PhD
• Summer Schools, Seminars, Workshops

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CEI UniNet: Concept

 The CEI UniNet functions through:

• Executive Board composed of 1 selected university in each CEI MS.

meets every year - chaired by the Rector of the University of Trieste

• General Assembly made up of Executive Board + selected universities

which have participated in JPs. Meets every three years - chaired by the Rector of the University of Trieste

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CEI UniNet: Structure

Mandatory requirements endorsed by the CEI UniNet Executive Board

• A. JPs are to involve at least 2 universities from different CEI Member

States;

• B. JPs are to fall within one of the 6 Areas of Cooperation:
• Economics
• Advanced Biotechnology
• Regional Development and Public Administration
• Infrastructure and Logistics
• ICT
• Environment and Sustainable Development
• C. The teaching language of a JP is English

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JOINT PROGRAMMES: Mandatory Requirements

 participation of Non-EU CEI countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine  mobility of students and teaching staff through Split Joint Programmes (i.e. courses held in more than one University in different countries).  perspective for EU – Project Development

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JOINT PROGRAMMES: Priority Requirements

√ CEI UniNet has approved 87 JPs which have involved more than 100 universities (1 cancelled, 7 under implementation) √ more than 1000 Scholarship awards and Teaching Grants offered √ CEI contribution amounting to a total value of around 1 Million EUR (overall value of JPs amounting to around 7 Million EUR)

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Achievments since 2004

Master's for Ukrainian ICT students implemented by Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland (2006-2007)

Example of Split Joint Programme

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Silesian University of Technology Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technologies Lviv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine 5 students 3 lecturers

4 4 3 2 4 2 36 1 2 10 1 7 4 2 4 Approved Projects

Geographical Distribution 2004-2012: Applicants of JPs per County

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Geographical Distribution 2004-2006: Applicants of JPs per County

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Geographical Distribution 2007-2009: Applicants of JPs per country

Austria 5% Hungary 4% Italy 48% Macedonia 4% Montenegro 4% Poland 18% Serbia 9% Slovenia 4% Ukraine 4%

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Geographical Distribution 2010-2012: Applicants of JPs per Country

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Geographical Distribution 2004-2006: Beneficiaries of JPs per Country

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Geographical Distribution 2007-2009: Beneficiaries of JPs per Country

Belarus Albania Bulgaria B&H Croatia Hungary Italy Macedonia Moldova Montenegro P

• land

Romania Serbia Slovenia Ukraine

Belarus Albania Bulgaria B&H Croatia Hungary Italy Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Poland Romania Serbia Slovenia Ukraine

Slovakia

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Geographical Distribution 2010-2012: Beneficiaries of JPs per Country

Albania 8% Austria 1% Belarus 7% Bosnia and Herzegovina 1% Bulgaria 1% Croatia 11% Czech R. 1% Hungary 1% Italy 8% Macedonia 6% Moldova 1% Montenegro 2% Poland 16% Romania 2% Serbia 5% Slovakia 7% Slovenia 2% Ukraine 19%

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Number of Joint Programmes per Area (2004-2012)

economics advanced biotechnology regional development and public administration Infrastructure and logistics ICT environment and sustainable development

• ther topics

26 1 22 11 22 11 19

 Fourth International School of Media Discourse Analysis /The Bridges of Media Education 2012 – University of Novi Sad (Serbia) - TEMPUS  2nd POL-LOC Summer School: East/West Experience in Comparative Perspective – Technical University of Košice (Slovakia)  Summer School on Cross- Border Cooperation in Regional Development of Albania, Montenegro and Serbia by Rural Tourism - University “Luidj Djurakuqi”, Shkoder (Albania) - TEMPUS  CEI Balkan Summer School - Leaderships Skills of Young Researchers as Drivers for Innovation in Higher Education - The Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania)  Summer School on Development of European Multimodal Transportation and Environment Protection System for CEI Countries of Low Danube - Odessa National Maritime University (Ukraine)  SSAS - SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE SEA. Joint Seminar on Sustainable Development in European Maritime Regions – University of Zadar (Croatia)  International Scientific-methodological Seminar “Pharmaceutical and Food Technologies and the System of Education” - Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus)

JPs Approved in 2012

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 UniNet succeeded in supporting all CEI MS  MS which have not implemented JPs: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic and Moldova  Developement of more Master’s and PhD programmes tailored for EU funding

Conclusions and Future Outlook: Participation in EU Programmes

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION Tania Pibernik pibernik@cei.int

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