INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS REPORTUNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO 2019

WORK

Collecting data from the Rectorate and member units of the University of Sarajevo.

Timetable: Calendar year 2019 (1 January – 31 December 2019).

Duration of data collecting: end of 2019 and begining of 2020 (deadline provided by Department for education and student affairs).

Two versions are prepared: Main UNSA report (22 pages) – deadline: 10 March 2020

International Relations Report (60 pages) – deadline: end of March 2019 – prolonged due to COVID19

Report is bilingual: B/C/S and English (this booklet is English version of the Report with main data and numbers).

20192018 2020

Summer semester 18/19 Winter semester 19/20

CONTENT

Creating and adopting Strategy for Development of International Relations of UNSA for the period 2018(19) – 2022(23) we have defined INDICATORS – a system to monitor and grade implementation of the Strategy, internatinalisation and action plans.

Indicators help to define this Report for 2019 and compare with previous from 2018 in next categories: Internationalisation of UNSA

International Relations Board

Agreements and Memberships

Projects

Mobility

Study programs

Conferences, summer schools and other short courses/programs

International visibility and recognition

INTERNATIONALISATION OF UNSA

The UNSA Development Strategy was created during 2018 and adopted in the begining of the 2019 and provides quicker and easier monitoring of the internationalisation process at UNSA, as well as including information about resources, local and global challenges.

Main contributors to the internationalisation process:

International Relations Office with appointed Vice-rector

Vice-deans for International Relations at the UNSA‘s units

Coordinators and administrative staff at UNSA‘s unit included in international processes

International Relations Board

25 indicators

BILATERAL AGREEMENTS (PARTNER)

The first ever agreement UNSA

signed on 1965

with Ernst Moritz-Arndt

University, Germany

Since 1965 UNSA signed

575 bilateral agreements

In 2019 we had 146 active

bilateral agrements

3

714

10616

AGREEMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

In 2019, UNSA had 146 active bilateral agreements / memorandum on cooperation / protocols with higher education institutions from all over the world.

New 20 agreements were signed during 2019.

In 2019 UNSA and its units were active member of 28 international organisations and networks.

PROJECTS

UNSA continued active trend of participation in international programs and projects.

In 2019 UNSA participated in 574 projects: 271 international (financed through EU/internatonal funds/tenders)

303 domestic (financed by state funds or own finances).

In this report we follow participation of UNSA within Erasmus+.

During the 2019 call (publish in the end of 2018) UNSA applied with 149 project proposals for Erasmus+ (KA107, CBHE, JM and SP) as well as for other EU funded calls.

During 2019 UNSA implemented: 157 Inter-institutional agreements within KA107 – more under mobility

17 already approved Erasmus+ CBHE projects.

In Summer of 2019 we were approved with new 6 projects within Erasmus+ CBHE where start of implementation was in the end of 2019 or begining of 2020;

UNSA applied for 4 Jean Monnet projects and got approved two (2).

184 Erasmus+

projects

MOBILITY IN 2019

Total number of two-way mobility is 931.

Outgoing: 578

Incoming: 353

OUTGOING: 578

INCOMING: 353

TOTAL

INTERNATIONAL

MOBILITY(Incoming & Outgoing)

TOTAL INTERNATIONAL

MOBILITY FROM UNSA

3,3%

2,0%578/27.934x100

931/27.934x1001 6

107

2

78

2 1 1

640

1 2 3 3

84

Both-way mobility in 2019 (programs)

MOBILITY 2014-2019

2014-2018

INTERNATIONAL

MOBILITY(Incoming & Outgoing)

2014-2018

INTERNATIONAL

MOBILITY FROM UNSA

* Lisabon Conference: 20% by 2020

15,3%

10,6%5.213/27.934x100

2.971/27.934x100

550

347

328

513

655

578

350

443

312

384 400

353

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Ratio between outgoing and incoming mobility for the period of 2014-2019

Odlazna Dolazna

MOBILITY (OUTGOING)

Bachelor; 136

Master; 197

PhD; 12

Teaching (akad.); 119

Training (akad./admin.);

119Osoblje; 238

UNSA studentsa and staff members in 2019

59%

41%

Studenti Osoblje

MOBILITY (OUTGOING): PROGRAMS

1

65

2

58

2

451

1 1 2

Arabic Programfor Non-Native

Speakers

Bilateralnasaradnja

BIT SUMMERSCHOOL

CEEPUS COST Erasmus+ FEBS Fullbright MEVLANA

MOBILITY (OUTGOING): COUNTRIES

88

77

69

38

30 28 2824

20 18 16 15 1411 11 10 8 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Host countries in 2019

MOBILITY (OUTGOING): STUDY FIELDS GROUPS

SOCIAL SCIENCES24%

HUMANITIES23%

MEDICINE11%

NATURAL AND BIOTECHNICAL6%

TECHNICAL25%

ARTS5%

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES6%

MOBILITY (INCOMING)

Bachelor; 135

Master; 45

PhD; 6

Teaching (akad.); 102

Training (akad./admin.); 65

53%

47%

Studenti Osoblje

MOBILITY (INCOMING): PROGRAMS

6

42

17 1 1

197

2 2 1

84

Best of SouthEast Europe

Bilateralnasaradnja

CEEPUS Dijaspora za razvoj – D4D

Drugo Erasmus+ Freemover Fulbright Mevlana Praksa

MOBILITY (INCOMING): COUNTRIES

39

36

24 2321 21

1816 16 16 15

13 13 12

7 7 6 6 6 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Home countries of visiting students and staff members in 2019

MOBILITY (INCOMING): STUDY FIELDS GROUPS

SOCIAL STUDIES28%

HUMANITIES17%

MEDICINE30%

NATURAL AND BIOTECHNICAL4%

TECHNICAL14%

ARTS1%

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES6%

CONFERENCES, SCHOOLS AND OTHER SHORT COURSES/PROGRAMS

INFO DAYS, PROMOTION11%

CONFERENCE, CONGRESS, SYMPOSIUM, SEMINAR,

ROUND TABLE40%

COURSE1%

OTHER9%

VISIT, MEETING11%

WORKSHOP, TRAINING23%

FAIR1%

WINTER OR SUMMER SCHOOL

4%

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS AT UNSA

CONFERENCES, SCHOOLS AND OTHER SHORT COURSES/PROGRAMS

79

67

39

27 25

14 11 9 8 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1

International events at UNSA units

WINTER AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

Summer school „Ibn ‚Arabi and His Interpreters“ Summer school: „Questionining culture of tolerance:

European integration after the fall of Berlin wall”

Summer school „Comparative Publih health –

Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina“

Summer school about European multilanguage

Regional Summer school for young economists: "Analysis of data

for public policies" (EFSA)

Summer school: „Urban enviroment risk prevention“ (FKKS)

Summer school in Japanese language and culture (FF)

Summer school in Aquaculture (VFS)

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EVENTS ORGANIZED/SUPPORTED BY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE• Orientation day for outgoing students x 2

• Info day about mobility programs at the Faculty of Pharmacy

• Visit of delegation from Jagiellonian University in Krakov

• Welcome day for incoming students in Summer semester 2018/2019

• PDV related meeting organized by NEO BiH

• UNIADRION workshop

• Italian universities fair

• Western Balkan Alumni Association – general assembly in Tirana

• Meetings with vicedeans and coordinators for international relations

• Strategy for Internationalisation of UNSA presentation

• Visit of delegation from Technical University of Poznan

• TAM HERE workshop

• Erasmus+ workshop on how to prepare and apply CHBE project – prof. dr. Branko Vučijak

• Pre-departure day EU info centar

EVENTS ORGANIZED/SUPPORTED BY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OFFICE• Welcome day for incoming students in Winter semester 2019/2020

• Erasmus+ info day

• 3rd International staff week

• „Exhibition+“ project implementation

• Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language school for incoming students

• 10th Scholarship fair

• Erasmus+ contact seminar

• Participation at Erasmus+ National informative day in Brussels and presentation of the project „Exhibition+“

• Workshop „Current and future trends of HEI in Europe and review of priroties of development of HE in B&H

for the period 2016-2026“

3RD INTERNATIONAL STAFF TRAINING WEEK

Staff week is organized following good practice of European universities

Target group are persons included in implementation of international relations at HEIs

Attended by representatives from 23 partner European universities + representatives of UNSA

Presentations and promotion of UNSA, credit mobility, STINT project, networking

Staff week is combined with Scholarship fair so participants of Staff week were able to participate in the 10th Scholarship fair

EXHIBITION+

This was an exhibition of photographs taken by students and staff members from Bosnia and Herzegovina who participated in the Erasmus+ exchange. Visitors could get insight into personal and overall mobility experience through photographs with brief explanations.

Behind the idea of the Exhibition+ was Adnan Rahimić, UNSA Senior International Relations Officer who transformed the idea of creative dissemination of Erasmus+ mobilities into a project and applied for a grant to the regional organization Western Balkan Alumni Association -WBAA (to which he also is a full-time member).

At an annual meeting of the Audiovisual, Educational and Cultural Support Agency (EACEA) held in Bruxelles on 14 November 2019 for Erasmus+ National Agencies the project Exhibition+ was presented and awarded.

THE 10TH SCHOLARSHIP FAIR

UNSA Brand

The unique BiH‘s fair that gathers BH and foreign institutions that offer financial or other type of support for studying in BiH or abroad.

Date: 17 October 2019

Place: Rektorate of UNSA

54 participants, out of which:

20 countries

8 Embassies

34 European HEIs

Several thousands of visitors

INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY AND RECOGNITION

Promotion materials created by IRO office in 2019

INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY AND RECOGNITION

• European Parliament Award LUX Film Prize for the movie „Bog postoji, zove se Petrunija“ made by script

from assoc. prof. dr. Elma Tataragić

• Academic Kemal Hanjalić elected for international member of Russian Academy of Science

• Academy of Music receives gold and bronze medal at 69th International Harmonica Trophy

• Dr. Amila Ramović receives Honorary Fellow of the Plymouth College of Art

• Student at the Faculty of Law, Zenira Bektaš, won gold medal at the European University Championship

• Academic prof. dr. Dejan Milošević receives „Georg Forster Research Award“

• Prof. dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija receives Award for the contribution in teaching at the University of Bejing

• Film produced by prof. Amra Bakšić-Čamo „Heroji ne umiru“ included in 2019 Film festival in Cannes

• Students of Academy of Music Azmir Halilović, Danijel Lovrić i Asmir Hamzić won awards on International

festival in Slavonski Brod

• Two awards from international competitions for our student at Academy of Music Marka Stojanovića

(piano)

• Three students from University of Sarajevo discovered new species of bat

INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY AND RECOGNITION

www.facebook.com/iro.unsa

Created: 2012

Followers: 4.521 (vs. 2018: 3.978)

www.instagram.com/univerzitetusarajevu

Created: 2017

No of posts: 60 (34 in 2018, 33 in 2017)

Followers: 691 (2018:311)

www.youtube.com > IRO UNSA

Opened: 2015

No of video: 13

No of views: 6.303 (2018: 5.647)

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