Transatlantic Higher Education Initiatives and Cooperation Programs: Opportunities for Your Institut

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Transatlantic Higher Education Initiatives and
Cooperation Programs Opportunities for Your
InstitutionBalance Bologna A Long-term
Approach to New Certification in
EuropeUniversity of Turku, Finland13 June
2008Terhi Mölsä, Fulbright Center, Finland
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The Finnish Fulbright Center

• Suomen ja Yhdysvaltain opetusalan
  vaihtotoimikunta
• Finnish - North American academic exchanges since
  1949
• Independent commission. Funding 18 from the
  US government 81 from Finland
• - Trust Fund
• - private foundations
• - Finnish universities - Finnish
  government 1 from Canadian government

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Fulbright Center in annual figures

• Grant programs
• - 60 - 70 grantees (50-50)
• Information and training services
• - 4000 clients (30 professionals)
• - 64 training information events
• - over 130 000 web site hits
• - special programs for HEIs
• Testing
• - 1400 test takers (TOEFL, GRE, USMLE)

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Fulbright Programs in Europe

• 24 Commissions diversity of programs
• Direct access
• Special European opportunities, such as
• Inter-Country Travel Grant Program
• Resource to North American universities
  Facilitating contact, information referrals
• Bilateral partnerships
• Other grant opportunities e.g. International
  Undergraduate Research

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Strategic use of Fulbright tools

• Individual scholarship opportunity vs. creating
  long-term partnerships?
• ? Institutional plan
• Sponsored grant programs

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Fulbright Programs in Europe contact us directly

• Fulbright Commissions
• http//fulbright.state.gov/fulbright/about/whyis/
  binational-partnerships/fulbright-commissionseuro
  pe
• Chair of Directors network
• Terhi.Molsa_at_Fulbright.Fi

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University of the Arctic

• Founded in 2001, UArctic is a cooperative
  network of 116 universities, colleges, and other
  organizations committed to higher education and
  research in the North.
• New opportunities for US and Canadian
  universities to cooperate with institutions in
  the Nordic countries and Russia
• www.uarctic.org

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UArctic programs Strategic Areas

• Undergraduate Studies
• Circumpolar Studies Program (BCS)
• Graduate Studies
• Field School
• Graduate Networks
• UArctic Masters Program
• Mobility
• north2north
• northTREX
• GoNorth
• Knowledge and Dialogue
• Northern Research Forum
• Thematic Networks
• Mimir Research Outreach Program
• www.uarctic.org

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north2north

• Multilateral exchange program of the University
  of the Arctic
• Student mobility in higher education in the
  circumpolar north
• Nearly 40 partners in seven Arctic countries
• The north2north student exchange program provides
  opportunities for students to experience
  different northern regions firsthand, and to
  share experiences face-to-face by allowing
  students to study at other UArctic institutions.

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north2north

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UArctic Online Studies Catalogue

• An online tool which allows students to search
  for study opportunities offered in a wide array
  of fields throughout the Circumpolar North.
• Coordinated by the new Catalogue office in
  Amherst, MA., USA, hosted by the Scandinavian
  Seminar Group
• studies.uarctic.org

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EU-US Cooperation in Higher Education and
Vocational Training / Atlantis Program

• The European Union and the United States of
  America signed on 21/6/2006 at the EU-US Summit
  in Vienna a new agreement on higher education and
  vocational training for another eight-year period
  (2006-2013). The new agreement renews and
  reinforces the long standing EU-US cooperation
  program that was established in 1995. The program
  is funded and managed jointly by the European
  Commission and by the US Department of Education.
  It aims primarily at promoting understanding
  between the peoples of the European Union and the
  United States of America and improving the
  quality of their human resource development. To
  achieve these objectives, the new program will
  support the following main Actions

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EU-US Cooperation in Higher Education and
Vocational Training Atlantis Program

• Transatlantic Degree action providing support to
  multilateral partnerships of EU and US
  institutions for the purpose of setting up joint
  study programs - including joint/double degrees -
  and transatlantic mobility of students and
  faculty
• Excellence Mobility Projects, providing follow-up
  financial support for student mobility to joint
  consortia that have a proven track record of
  excellence in transatlantic cooperation
• Policy-oriented measures, addressing comparative
  higher education and vocational training issues,
  and promoting dialogue on recognition of
  qualifications and accreditations
• Schuman-Fulbright action providing scholarships
  to highly qualified professionals for undertaking
  studies or training on the opposite side of the
  Atlantic, in areas of specific relevance to the
  EU/US relations.  The details of the
  Schuman-Fulbright action will be developed as a
  cooperation between the European Commission and
  the US Department of State.

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EU-US

• EU-US
• http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/eu-usa/i
  ndex_en.html
• EU-US Fulbright program (Fulbright-Schuman)
• http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/eu-usa/f
  ulbright_en.html
• (or directly)
• http//www.fulbright.be/Schuman/Fulbright_Schuman
  .htm

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EU-Canada The new EU-Canada Cooperation Program
in Higher Education, Training and Youth

• In 2006, the European Union and Canada extended
  the agreement in the fields of higher education,
  training and youth for another eight-year period
  (2006-2013). The new agreement, signed on 05
  December 2006 at the informal education
  ministerial meeting in Helsinki (Finland),
  officially entered into force on 01 March 2007.
  It renews and reinforces the longstanding
  EU-Canada co-operation program that was
  established in 1995. It aims primarily at
  promoting understanding between the peoples of
  the European Union and Canada and improving the
  quality of their human resource development.

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EU-Canada The new EU-Canada Cooperation Program
in Higher Education, Training and Youth

• Consortium projects will continue to be a
  cornerstone of the new program. Important new
  dimensions are added, such as measures to foster
  an in-depth dialogue on policy issues, new
  activities in the area of youth, and the
  establishment of an alumni association to help
  keep former grantees in long-term touch with one
  another and to promote the co-operation scheme
  among future generations of students.
• The EU-Canada Program is administered jointly by
  the European Commissions Directorate General for
  Education and Culture (DG EAC) and by Human
  Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC),
  in conjunction with the Canadian Department of
  Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The new
  program plans to implement roughly 210 projects
  with some 4.500 EU and Canadian individuals
  participating in mobility activities over the
  eight year period from 2006 to 2013.

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EU-Canada The new EU-Canada Cooperation Program
in Higher Education, Training and Youth

• http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/eu-canada
  /index_en.html

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Erasmus Mundus

• Co-operation and mobility program in the field of
  higher education. It aims to enhance quality in
  European higher education and to promote
  intercultural understanding through co-operation
  with third countries.
• Participants
• . Higher education institutions
• . Graduate students?
• . Scholars (professors, researchers)
• ?Higher education staff
• ?Public and private bodies active in higher
• education

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Erasmus Mundus

• Next announcement expected in the fall (Oct?)
• Whats new?
• Doctoral Programs
• Full-study scholarship for 3rd country students,
  also for Doctorate
• Support for participation of institutions from
  third countries

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Erasmus Mundus

• Email EAC-Erasmus-Mundus_at_ec.europa.eu
• http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/pr
  ogramme/back_en.html

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Examples of other networks and programs with
Finnish HEI participation

• International Student Exchange Programs ISEP
  http//www.isep.org
• The Magellan Exchange http//www.magellanonline.o
  rg/Home/Default.aspx
• Global E3 (GE4) http//www.iie.org/programs/global
  -e3/

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more links

• Capacity survey results (IIE)
• www.iie.org/StudyAbroadCapacity
• Current survey on transatlantic joint and
  dual/double degree programs (IIE)
• https//iie.websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/20/Internatio
  nalJointandDualDegreeSurvey.htm
• rgutierrez_at_iie.org

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Canada / Europe mobility support and funding
organizations

• Association of Universities and Colleges of
  Canada
• http//www.aucc.ca/
• Canadian Bureau of International Education
• http//www.cbie.ca/english/scholarship/
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
• http//www.hum.au.dk/nacs/
• Nordic Association for Canadian Studies
• http//www.hum.au.dk/nacs/
• International Council for Canadian Studies
• www.iccs-ciec.ca
• Canadian Heritage Exchanges Canada
• http//www.echanges.gc.ca/Main.asp?Language0

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The Researchers Mobility Portal - Finland

• www.aka.fi/eracareers
• Research funding in Finland
• Financing possibilities for foreign researchers
• Search for job opportunities
• Finnish universities
• Research institutes
• Finnish business partners
• General information on Finland and how to get
  there

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European Researchers Mobility Portal

• http//ec.europa.eu/eracareers
• Post your CV (free service)
• Research job vacancies
• Latest job offers
• Fellowships and grants
• Practical information and assistance

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Study in Europe Website

• a new portal with information on and links to
  thirty-two European countries, their universities
  and what it takes to live and study in them. The
  aim is to provide a one-stop shop for third
  country students who are interested in studying
  in a European country.
• The portal is part of the European Commissions
  Erasmus Mundus Global Promotion Project which
  also entails developing and marketing a European
  brand in higher education, constructing media
  campaigns, and sponsoring global education fairs.
• www.study-in-europe.org

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