Nordplus

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Nordplus

• Kenneth Lundin
• Center for International Mobility CIMO
• kenneth.lundin_at_cimo.fi
• www.cimo.fi

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Nordic cooperation, strategies

• Policy priority areas for the Nordic cooperation
• Development in technology and Nordic Centres of
  Excellence
• Welfare
• Internal market in the Nordic countries
• Cooperation with neighbouring countries and
  regions
• Environment and sustainable development

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Nordic cooperation, strategies education and
research

• The basis for educational and research policies
  are
• Development of Nordic education and research
  competence
• Development of human resources
• Lifelong Learning
• Extensive competence

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Nordic dimension, benefit and synergy

• Basis of all Nordic activities
• Positive effects through inter Nordic solutions
• Manifests and develops the Nordic affinity
• Increases Nordic competence and competitiveness

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Nordic dimension, benefit, synergy

• In education this principle should be expressed
  through
• Promotion of mobility in the Nordic region
• Strengthening of the Nordic dimension in the
  European education community
• Concentration on infrastructural solutions that
  saves resources
• Promotion the division of labour and specializing
  
• The purpose of Nordic co-operation is to achieve
  more together than the individual countries are
  capable of on their own. We call this Nordic
  synergy.

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Nordplus programmes in education

• Nordplus Junior
• Nordplus Voksen
• Nordplus Sprog
• Nordplus Neighbour
• Nordplus (HE)

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Norplus (HE)

• Task
• To create a platform for Nordic HE-cooperation
  where institutions, teachers, students and
  administrators can utilize each others
  competences
• To promote the establishment, consolidation and
  the development of networks of Nordic HEIs
• To promote the development of the content of
  cooperation within and between disciplines

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Target group

• Networks of Nordic HEIs
• Minimum three HEIs from three different Nordic
  counties and/or autonomous territories
• Other actors, e.g. NGOs, public or private sector
  can be partners in a Nordplus network
• Partners from outside the Nordic region can
  participate but no support from Nordplus

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Priorities (2005)

• HÖGUT, the steering group of the programme has a
  mandate to set annual priorities
• Priorities for 2005
• Teachers
• Joint Study Programmes
• Cooperation between HEIs and the private and
  public sektor, NGOs

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The presidencys priorities 2005 (DK)

• Cooperation between HEIs and the private sector
• Cooperation between the western parts of the
  Nordic Region (Iceland, Faroe Islands and
  Greenland)
• The internationalization of education
• Quality and global competitiveness
• Joint and Double Degrees and the establishment
  and implementation of Joint Study Programmes

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General guidelines

• Division of labour, innovation
• Balance
• Small subject areas
• Students to Finland
• West Nordic region
• Disabled actors

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Nordplus activities

• Mobility
• Support for networks
• Intensive courses
• Joint study programmes
• Other activities

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Administration

• Assessment procedures
• Annual application, DL February 1st
• Application submitted on-line and a signed copy
  posted to CIMO
• Administrator in charge (CIMO) makes a proposal
  together with co-administrators
• HÖGUT makes a decision (April)
• CIMO sends Letters of Acceptance and a contract
  ( payment order) to selected networks
• Payment is issued (100 ) when the contact (
  payment order) is signed and returned to CIMO.
• Contact period from official decision (April)
  to 1.12 the following year

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Quality criteria

• priorities
• general guidelines
• history of the network
• Quality of the application (What? Who? Why?
  Expected results? Nordic benefit? budget in
  proportion to the activity)

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Administration, cont.

• Eligible costs
• Travel, accommodation, daily allowances, post,
  telephone, rents for assembly rooms, salaries
  (limited), materials (information, education)
• Not eligible costs
• Over heads, purchase of equipments, salaries for
  purely administrative tasks

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Nordplus network

• Coordinator (responsible for the application,
  report, internal allocation of funds)
• Contact person at every partner institution
• Nordplus contact person at every HEI that
  coordinates one or more Nordplus networks
• Internal application round at every partner for
  mobility and proposals for other activities
  before the official application is submitted

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Nordplus in figures

• Annual budget appr. 5 M (70 to mobility, 30
  other activities)
• Annual total applied sum 12-14M (record in
  2005 16 M)
• On an average some 280 networks are supported
  every year. Some 330 applies every year.
• Covers almost all subject areas (Health Sciences
  and Teacher education dominates)
• Majority of the networks are thematic (relating
  to a particular subject, administrated on
  institute level), 10-15 covering all institutions
  within a subject area, centrally administrated)
• Only some 30-40 new networks every year
• 40-50 ICs are supported every year
• 10-15 JSPs are supported every year

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National Nordplus agencies

• DENMARK CIRIUS www.ciriusonline.dk
• FINLAND Centre for International Mobility CIMO
  www.cimo.fi
• ICELAND Office of International Education,
  University of Iceland www.ask.hi.is
• NORWAY The Research Council of Norway,
  International Scholarships (IS)
  www.forskningsradet.no/is
• The Norwegian Centre for International
  Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU)
  http//siu.no
• SWEDEN International Programme Office for
  Education and Training www.programkontoret.se
• Information points Greenland, Faroe Islands,
  Åland