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Erasmus Mundus PartnershipsJoint and double degrees

14/04/2011EU Training and Mobility Programmes Pagina 2

The presentation will outline Sapienza’s approach and policies aiming at:

• improving participation to International EU funded programmes,

• increasing students and graduates mobility,

• developing internationalisation at home

Results will be given for the following programmes:

• Leonardo da Vinci placement programmes for graduates• Erasmus Mundus: • Double and Joint degrees• International degrees taught in English


Erasmus MundusFormer External Cooperation Window (EMECW), now Erasmus Mundus Action 2

Launched in 2006, the programme is a cooperation and mobility scheme in the area of higher education.

The European Commission launched this initiative to foster cooperation between higher education institutions from outside the EU with EU universities.

Builds further on previous programmes: Erasmus, Tempus, EM, Alfa, Alban, Asia-Link, Edulink

It aims to boost exchange of students, researchers and academic staff and to support mobility and recognition of studies.

Promotion cooperation EU – third countries (“lots”)


Erasmus MundusSapienza’s experience

•Erasmus Mundus University II, coordinated by VUB, under the Call 2007www.vub.ac.be/erasmusmundus/

• Egypt, Palestine, Israel, 287 mobility flows foreseen with over 5 mil € funding.• Sapienza’s results: outgoing students 4 to Egypt, 1 to Israel

ougoing staff 1 teaching staff to Palestineincoming students 1 exchange, 2 degree, 3 Phd,

1 post-docincoming staff 1 teaching staff from Palestine

•Lot 3B Palestine call 2010, 50 scholarships•http://www.vub.ac.be/international/emu/Call closed on last 10 of April > 2005 applications were receivedResults > beginning of June



• MULTIC: Russian Federation, coordinated by TU Dresden > 2008 and 2010 call http://tu-dresden.de/internationales/multic/index_html

2008• 210 scholarships for all levels of higher education starting in the year 2008-

2009. • Sapienza’s results: • 5 outgoing students• 27 incoming students: 22 exchange master, 1 Phd, 1 post-doc, 1 incoming

staff

2010• 276 scholarships funded instead of 246 as in the project budget• Sapienza’s results:• 2 outgoing: 1 staff + 1 student• 43 incoming students: 30 ba/ma exchange, 3 degree ma, 7 Phd, 1 post-doc, 3

academic staff



• Basileus 1, 2and 3, coordinated by Gent Universitywww.basileus.ugent.be

• Mobility scheme with Western Balkan universities:

1st year 400 mobilites were foreseen, 345 were implemented:

Sapienza’s results: 6 outgoing students: 1 PhD, 5 master (2 BiH, 5 Serbia)4 outgoing teaching staff 32 incoming students: 6 PhD (3 degree), 26 master (10 degree)6 incoming teaching staff

2nd year 305 mobilities foreseen, Sapienza’s results: 6 outgoing students: 2 post-doc, 4 master

3 outgoing teaching staff 27 incoming students: 1 PhD, 26 ba/master (3 degree)7 incoming teaching staff + 1 post-doc

3rd year 283 mobilities foreseen, 1 call closed on 15 February > 1200 applications > 305 forSapienza.Selction results will be published soon.

No Mobility without recognition Conference in Ljiubljana – October 2010 > over 200 participants



• Lisum, coordinated by Gent Universitywww.lisum.ugent.be

• Mobility scheme with Chinese universities:• 274 mobilities foreseen, 116 implemented up to now, 1 ongoing selection

• Sapienza’s results: 14 outgoing students: 1 PhD, 13 master 1 outgoing teaching staff 11 incoming students: 5 PhD (2 degree), 3 master (1 degree), 3 Ba1 incoming teaching staff



• Lot 6 Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan:

140 scholarships foreseen

1st call in August 2010 > 10 scholarships awarded: 2 to Sapienza (1 Msc degree + 1 post-doc)

The 2nd call is now open with deadline 31 May



• Mundus ACPhttp://mundusacp.up.pt/

240 mobilities foreseen > only EU academic staff to ACP universities

ACP nationals> MA full degreeSandwich Phd 10 months (only TG1)Academic and administrative staff

Call closed on 31st January > 3000 applicants (abou 500 for Sapienza)

Selection board met on the 5 and 6 April> waiting for selection results



• FFEEBB > Egyptwww.ffeebb.com

134 scholarships foreseen > the call opened at the end of March, deadline 6 MayPolitical unrest and the consequent closure of universities caused delay



•EU-NICE:http://www.eu-nice.eu

The project is aimed at fostering scientific cooperation in the field of earthquake mitigation between European and Asian Higher Education Institutions. The scholarship programme is open to nationals from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, North Korea, Philippines, and Sri Lanka

104 mobilities foreseen > call closed on 15 February with 130 applicants.

A second call will have to be launched for short term mobilities


Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience

• Conclusions from four year experience:

• Calls 2007-2010: 11 partnerships + 1 coordinated application

• EMECW was a strategic tool to build international partnerships based on credibility of the overall institution

• Cooperation among different offices + with academic structures (“studentplacement”, outside Erasmus, individual learning agreement for some student with different backgrounds)

• Institutional innovation: management of funds, new procedures (ie for the payment of fees)


Positive side effects

• Test on bilateral agreements (some very strong cooperations emerged, i.e. Architecture Belgrade)

• Improvement of welcome services: contacts with diplomatic services, withlocal authorities (i.e. for residence permits) etc…

• Long-lasting cooperation with some academic structures which prove to bemore open to internationalisation

• Enhanced international environment for Italian students (new modulestaught in English)

• Academic recognition “exercise” with HEI outside the European HigherEducation Area

• Support the offer of English taught courses


Joint degrees

The Italian law and joint programmes(509/99 and 270/2004):• Italian Universities may award degrees jointly with other Italian or foreign universities, on

the basis of specific agreements• The universities acts foresee the rules.. on the procedures for the awarding of joint

degrees.

National law on Doctorates (224/99):• The final Jury of Doctorates established through international agreements is set up

according to the internal rules agreed• The agreements may foresee specific procedures for awarding the degree (organisation

of the programme)• For the periods spent abroad the amount of the grant must be increased of at least 50%

Government support• Internationalisation programmes from 1998 to 2007 (10M euros)• 2008 onwards Cooperlink programme, less funding available


Sapienza’s experience on joint degrees• Some figures (although not outstanding):

• International PhDs: 1 awarding a joint degree

14 awarding double/multiple degrees (8 Engineering)

• 1 LLP course (professional master in State management and humanitarian affairs

• 9 first cycle degrees: 8 faculty of Engineering- France + 1 faculty of Economics Argentina

• 19 second cycle degrees 12 Engineering – various universities in France + New York

PolithecnicArchitecture – Buenos AiresStatistics –Paris DauphinePhilosphy - JenaATOSIM : Erasmus Mundus master course (Physics w. ENS Lyon + Amsterdam)Economics – FINEC Saint PetersburgLaw – Paris Panthéon Assas Humboldt King’s CollegePedagogy – Moscow

• New agreements in MA Finance, Genetics, Design for 2011


Sapienza’s experience on joint degrees

• Guidelines for the internationalisation of degrees(approved Joint doctorates in July + MA degrees in October)

• Jointly developed by the International office and Academic services

Overall aim to support the internationalisation of doctoral courses by:

• Amendments to internal regulation• Coordinating financial support• Approving guidelines and formats for the negotiations of agreements• Internal administrative staff training > planned


Sapienza’s experience on joint degrees

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