Edulink Project 20079 AUDIS African Universities International Dimension Strengthening

1
Edulink Project (2007-9) AUDIS -African
Universities International Dimension Strengthening
EDULINK Stakeholder Conference 2008 Higher
Education and Sustainable Development the
Contribution of ACP-EU Edulink Programme Addis
Ababa, 8-9 July 2008
2
AUDIS Key features

• Existing Networks Coimbra Group Universities -
  ACP TF their African Partners
• Personal committment Erasmus experience, Key
  persons
• Process efficacy axiomatic of the interaction,
  grouping, network effects
• Perceived needs - Workshop for the elaboration
  of a long-term cooperation strategy between
  European and West African Universities (Cotonou,
  April 6-9, 1999)
• - Contrat de service 8 ACP TPS 128- Travaux
  préparatoires à la mise en uvre du Cadre Commun
  de Coopération dans lEnseignement supérieur
  entre lUE et les pays ACP (2002-3)

3

• Overall objective
• To increase African Universities capacity to
  develop and manage their International dimension
• Partners / Partenaires
• Univ. of Padova (Italie), K.U.Leuven (Belgique),
  A. Neto-Luanda (Angola), Abomey Calavi (Bénin),
  Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Cabo Verde (Cabo
  Verde), Kinshasa Lubumbashi (RD. Congo),
  Mekelle (Ethiopia), E. Mondlane-Maputo
  (Mozambique), G. Berger-St-Louis (Sénégal),
  Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), Lomé (Togo), Zimbabwe
  (Zimbabwe), Coimbra Group Office - Bruxelles
• Associates / Associés
• Univ. of Barcelona (E), Bologna (I), Coimbra (P),
  Granada (E), Groningen (NL), U.C.Louvain (B),
  Montpellier 1 (F), Poitiers (F), Siena (I),
  Western Cape (SA) VLIR-UOS (B)
• Target group - Deputy Vice-Chancellor for
  International Relations- Director of
  International Relations
• in order to have Political and Technical
  committment

4

• Action plan
• Phase 1
• 1.a Needs assessment
• 1.b.1 Training proposals elaboration
• Phase 2
• 2.a Informative seminar
• 2.b Training internship
• 2.c Feed-back seminar
• Phase 3
• 3.a Implementation of activities
• 3.b Internal call for proposals
• Phase 4
• Evaluation and dissemination seminar

5
Phase 1 Needs assessment The StLouis
4-mative domains

• Planning and management of IR (clear job
  description training on strategic plan research
  board brain drain ? brain gain séminaires sur
  lélaboration de projets bancables recherche de
  partenaires)
• Access to international funding (fund raising
  proposals recherche dinformation sur les
  bourses européennes maîtrise des mécanismes des
  financements internationaux)
• Students/Teachers mobility (credentials
  evaluation students services negotiate
  agreements develop strategy to manage mobility
  of students, academics, researchers and officers
  identify new cooperation opportunities
  facilitate postgraduate schools)
• Languages (develop language, public relations,
  networking skills translation for joint
  research formation linguistique des responsables
  de la coopération)

6
Phase 2 Training internships

• Barcelona 3 0
• Bologna 6 0
• Coimbra 0 3
• Granada 0 4
• Groningen 7 0
• Louvain-la-Neuve 0 5
• Leuven 3 0
• Montpellier 3 0
• Padova 0 8
• Poitiers 0 4
• Siena 2 0

7
Phase 3 Challenges of the projects
implementation

• Burning-out?
• Personal vs institutional gain?
• Internal call objective vs tool?
• Ownership?

8

• http//www.coimbra-group.eu/audis/index.php