Mobility Joint Degrees

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Mobility Joint Degrees
Bologna Promoters Seminar in Dubrovnik, 30 June
2005 Vera Stastna Ministry of Education, Youth
and Sports
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Before and after EU membership (1990 2005 )

• Pre-accession period
• development of international collaboration
  Tempus programme
• various international and institutional
  agreements (multilateral, bilateral)
• CEEPUS
• Aktion
• international projects education, research and
  development
• EU programmes
• Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Youth for Europe
  (access available from 1997)
• 5th Framework programme, other programmes of
  research and development

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Before and after EU membership (1990 2005)

• EU membership
• one year of experience only
• not many differences or surprising/unexpected
  impact (thanks to previous experience)
• some particular examples of new benefits
• access to further programmes of the EU
• better position of students in studying
  individually or finding part time jobs
• wider possibilities within EU programmes- namely
  co-operaion outside EU

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Mobility

• Multilateral EU programmes
• SOCRATES, namely ERASMUS main (2003/04 3500
  students, 1000 teachers) strong co funding from
  state budget
• LEONARDO DA VINCI
• Regional programmes
• Multilateral cooperation - CEEPUS
• Bilateral cooperation - Aktion (Austria)
  cooperation with DAAD intergovernmental
  agreements

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Mobility

• Programme of Development - Ministry
• Supports direct cooperation of HEIs
  free-movers growing importance
• Direct cooperation of HEIs
• Institutional funds to support mobility
• Direct study offers
• Professional organisations (IAESTE, AIESEC)
• Professional placements
• Self paying bases
• Weak point - no support for studying the whole
  programme abroad

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Some Figures Socrates Erasmus

• 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04
  04/05
• Outgoing
  
  (plan)
• students 879 1 249 2 001 2 533 3 002
  3 589 5 817
• months 4 130 5 980 10 481 14 355
  17 384    21 508 34 785
• teachers 366 408 635 782
  973 987 2 393
• weeks 531 729 800 890 1
  062       1 027 3 631
• Incoming
• students 290 509 635
  800 993      1 398  

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Mobility - Some Figures
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Mobility - Some Figures Socrates Erasmus

• EU Funding National Funding
• 2000 2 136 086 EUR 1 691 692 EUR (52 443
  000 CZK)
• 2001 2 205 865 EUR 5 107 000 EUR (158 319
  757 CZK)
• 2002 2 271 664 EUR 5 728 300 EUR (176 500
  000 CZK)
• 2003 2 255 374 EUR    7 064 500 EUR
  (219 000 000 CZK)
• 2004 2 620 045 EUR    8 125 000 EUR
  (260 000 000 CZK)
• 2005 3 063 477 EUR 8 935 000 EUR (277 000 000
  CZK)
• (plan)

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Mobility - Some Figures

• Other costs
• CEEPUS 10 millions CZK
• Aktion 6 millions CZK
• Programmes of Development - 50 millions CZK

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European HE Area new challenges for mobility

• Possible models
• Short term stays (1-2 semesters)
• Double degree programmes
• Joint diploma theses, joint doctoral
  dissertations
• joint degree
• Bachelor's degree at domestic institution ?
  Master's degree abroad (possibly doctoral degree
  abroad)

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Joint degrees Berlin 2003

• They (Ministers) note that initiatives have been
  taken by Higher Education Institutions in various
  European countries to pool their academic
  resources and cultural traditions in order to
  promote the development of integrated study
  programmes and joint degrees at first, second and
  third level.
• Moreover, they stress the necessity of ensuring a
  substantial period of study abroad in joint
  degree programmes as well as proper provision for
  linguistic diversity and language learning, so
  that students may achieve their full potential
  for European identity, citizenship and
  employability.
• Ministers agree to engage at the national level
  to remove legal obstacles to the establishment
  and recognition of such degrees and to actively
  support the development and adequate quality
  assurance of integrated curricula leading to
  joint degrees. (Berlin Communiqué, 19.
  September 2003)

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Joint degrees Bergen 2005

• We (Ministers) note that 36 of the 45
  participating countries have now ratified the
  Lisbon Recognition Convention. We urge those that
  have not already done so to ratify the Convention
  without delay. We express support for the
  subsidiary texts to the Lisbon Recognition
  Convention and call upon all national authorities
  and other stakeholders to recognise joint degrees
  awarded in two or more countries in the EHEA.
• Stocktaking for 2007
• In particular, we (Ministers) shall look for
  progress in
• .. the awarding and recognition of joint
  degrees, including at the doctorate level
• (Bergen Communiqué, 20 May 2005)

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Where are we now in Europe?

• There is no national legislation in most European
  countries
• Joint degree What is it - JOINT PROGRAME? or
  JOINT DIPLOMA?
• Erasmus Mundus since 2004
• Bologna Seminar - Joint degrees Further
  Development, Stockholm, May 2004
• Lisbon Recognition Convention Committee,
  Strasbourg, 9 June 2004
• Related document to the CoE/UNESCO Lisbon
  Recognition Convention Recommendation on the
  Recognition of Joint Degrees
• http//www.enic-naric.net Recognition Tools
  Legal Framework and Background - Related Council
  of Europe/UNESCO Documents

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Definition - Standards

• Related document to the LRC
• A joint degree should, for the purposes of
  this Recommendation, be understood as referring
  to a higher education qualification issued
  jointly by at least two or more higher education
  institutions or jointly by one or more higher
  education institutions and other awarding bodies,
  on the basis of a study programme developed
  and/or provided jointly by the higher education
  institutions, possibly also in cooperation with
  other institutions.
• ERASMUS MUNDUS
• Minimum three universities
• Master's level

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Related document to the LRC

• A joint degree may be issued as
• a. a joint diploma in addition to one or more
  national
• b. a joint diploma issued by the institutions
  offering the study programme in question
  without being accompanied by any national
  diploma
• c. one or more national diplomas issued
  officially as the only attestation of the joint
  qualification in question.

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Programmes

• ERASMUS MUNDUS
• Minimum three universities
• Master's level
• Double diploma,
• Joint diploma,
• Multiple diploma
• Other programmes
• CEEPUS II
• Central European Initiative CEI- University
  Network

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Czech Republic

• Possibilities of a Czech HEIs
• 1. the study programme is accredited (as a
  programme realised jointly at the institutions of
  the consortium) - right to award HE diploma and
  HE degree (46 The Act on HEIs)
• 2. the study programme is not accredited - the
  diploma will be considered as a foreign diploma -
  recognition according to 89-90 of The Act on
  HEIs - recommended abbreviation of the academic
  title
• 3 Joint Master Degrees Erasmus Mundus
• Nisa University
• www.neisse-uni.org/enversion/index.htm
• Many others mainly Master's and doctoral degrees

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Diploma Supplement

• More transparency
• Annex to the UNESCO/RE Lisbon Recognition
  Convention Recommendation on the Recognition of
  Joint Degrees
• The DS issued with a joint degree should clearly
  describe all parts of the degree, and it should
  clearly indicate the institutions and/or study
  programmes at which the different parts of the
  degree have been earned
• ?Description of all different national systems?

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