PARTICULARITATILE PIETEI ENERGETICE A UNIUNII EUROPENE SI REPUBLICII MOLDOVA

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Education and Culture Tempus
TEMPUS PROGRAMME IMPLIMENTATION IN THE REPUBLIC
MOLDOVA
Fifth Meeting of the EU-Moldova Subcommittee
No.4 Energy, Environment, Transport and
Telecommunications, Science and Technology, and
Training and Education
Chisinau, 23-24 April 2007
Prof. Valentin Arion National Tempus Office
Coordonator Tel./Fax [phone], E-mail
valarion_at_molddata.md
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Education and Culture

• The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) Action
  Plan, agreed between the EU and Moldova, is the
  foundation of our cooperation via Tempus Programme

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Tempus Programme contributes to
Education and Culture

• Upgrade and development of curricula and
  university management practices,
• Promote higher education reform,
• Support the introduction of the Bologna Process
  principles,
• Open universities to the outside world and
• Encourage mobility of academic and administrative
  staff.

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TEMPUS Timeline
Education and Culture

• Tempus phases
• 1990-1993 Tempus I
• 1994-1999 Tempus II
• 2000-2006 Tempus III
• 2007-2013 Tempus IV
• First phase of the Tempus programme was launched
  to respond to the modernisation needs of the
  higher education sector in Central and Eastern
  European countries.
• Moldova entered Tempus at the second phase, in
  1994,
• being followed in 1995 by Armenia,
  Azerbaijan, Georgia

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TEMPUS instruments
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• Tempus projects fall into three categories
• Joint European Projects (JEPs)
• Structural and Complementary Measures (SCM)
• Individual Mobility Grants (IMG)

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Joint European Projects
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• JEPs aim at transferring knowledge from EU
  universities to institutions in the partner
  countries in the areas of -
• curriculum development,
• university management and
• institution building.
• JEPs have a strong mobility component with
  exchanges of professors, administrators and
  students.
• There is a rigorous project selection procedure
  including a consultation process with the
  national authorities.
• All selected projects for Moldova were of high
  quality and in line with national educational
  priorities.

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Structural and Complementary Measures
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• SCM projects are designed to support national
  higher education reforms and strategic framework
  development.
• These measures are mainly used to accompany the
  Moldovas Government in its effort to align the
  national higher education systems with the
  principles of the Bologna process, to create a
  European higher education area.
• Moldova benefited of 8 SCM projects with the
  total of 874 th. Euro.

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Individual Mobility Grants (IMGs)
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• IMGs have been awarded to higher education
  professionals in the partner countries who had a
  professional project for upgrading their skills.

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Tempus III
Education and Culture

• In May 2005 at the Bergen Conference Moldova
  joined the Bologna Process
• Moldova expressed its willingness to be part of
  the EHEA and by 2010 to achieve the common
  Bologna objectives, as follows
• adoption of a shared framework of readable and
  comparable degrees
• introduction of undergraduate and postgraduate
  levels in all countries, with first degrees no
  shorter than three years and relevant to the
  labour market
• introduction of credit systems compatible with
  ECTS
• promotion of a European dimension in quality
  assurance
• elimination of remaining obstacles to the free
  mobility of students and teachers.

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Tempus projects distribution by universities
during 1994-2006
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JEPs SCMs distribution per years
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Ongoing Tempus Projects
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• Problem based medical education for Moldova
• E-learning in service teacher training in Moldova
• Service dOrientation Placement des Etudiants
• The development of a Quality Assurance System
  within selected Universities in Moldova
• Developing standards for post-graduate education
  at Moldovan Universities
• Implantation système institutionnel gestion
  assurance interne qualité formation dans l'ES-MD
• Quality assurance in implementing Bologna
  objectives
• Formation en doctorat de recherche ecole
  doctorale
• Support to the creation and activities of
  National Teams of Bologna Promoters

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Ongoing JEPsSCMs, per universities
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Some statisticsJoint European Projects
Selection 2002
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Moldova
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Individual Mobility Grants Selection 2003
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Moldova
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IMG, Selection 2004, round 3
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SCM, selection 2005, round of October
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JEPs, selection 2006
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TEMPUS III
Education and Culture

• Tempus is a well-known and popular programme in
  the academic worlds of the EU and its partner
  countries, and has become a major gateway to
  international contacts.
• It is based on the understanding that higher
  education institutions are a vital part of any
  process for social and economic transition in our
  neighbouring countries, and that they are a
  privileged vehicle to ensure better prospects for
  future generations.
• Jan Figel, European Commissioner for Education
  and Training, July 2006

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TEMPUS III
Education and Culture

• Tempus III continues to have a serious positive
  impact on higher education in Moldova.
• Tempus strengthens cooperation in HE between EU
  and Moldova
• Tempus promotes the people to people approach
  and allows working together, to have fruitful
  exchanges of views.
• Tempus has an impact on Moldovas HE policies
  adherence to the Bologna Process - is only one
  example.
• Almost 700 Moldovan professors and students
  visited the EU HEI. Many of them - heads of
  departments, deans, vice-rectors, rectors.
• In the past 12 years (1994-2006), Tempus has
  funded in Moldova 42 projects, involving all
  eligible local universities.

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TEMPUS III
Education and Culture

• The recent initiative of the President Vladimir
  Voronin, sets out a new objective for local HEI
  
• to promote the business spirit in schools and
  universities.
• It foresees to enhance the role of education in
  creating a more entrepreneurial culture in
  Moldovan society. In this context universities
  should integrate entrepreneurship as an important
  part of the curriculum, spread across different
  subjects, and require or encourage students to
  take entrepreneurship courses.
• At December 31, 2006  Tempus III came to the end.
  

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National Tempus Office
Education and Culture

• NTO cooperates with
• European Commission (Brussels),
• EC Delegation in Moldova,
• European Training Foundation (Turin, Italia)
  responsible for Tempus Programme implementation,
• Ministry of Economy and Trade of the Republic of
  Moldova,
• Ministry of Education and Youth,
• Eligible Universities.
• There is a free access to the NTO.
• NTO mail address Bd. Stefan cel Mare, 168
  (Universitatea Tehnica a Moldovei, Corpul 2, b.
  2-270), 2004 Chisinau Tel./Fax 23 72 82,
  E-mail valarion_at_molddata.md

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Conclusion
Education and Culture

• Since Moldova has chosen the European integration
  way it is important for the country to become a
  part of European Higher Education Area.
• Achievement of this target requires a
  continuation of efforts towards gradual alignment
  to the European Educational standards.
• Moldova appreciates the support of the EC in this
  respect and considers that Tempus Programme is
  extremely important for new democracies to
  promote higher educational system reforms and
  modernization.

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Education and Culture

• THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION !