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IMPACT - CANEM II PARTNERSHIP. Sofía Siemens CANEM II Project coordinator University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. SHORT VIEW OF THE PROJECT Project approved under the EM call: EACEA 38/2012 Starting date: 15 July 2013 Ending date: 30 October 2017
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IMPACT - CANEM II PARTNERSHIP Sofía Siemens CANEM II Project coordinator University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
SHORT VIEW OF THE PROJECT • Project approved under the EM call: EACEA 38/2012 • Starting date: 15 July 2013 • Ending date: 30 October 2017 • - Lot 8: Countries of the Central Asian Republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. (3 Universities per partner country) + 5 European Universities: Italy, UK, Czech Republic and two Spanish universities (University of Balearic Islands and University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) • - Total members for the consortium: 20 partners. Coordinator: ULPGC. Local coordinator: Kyrgyz National University
SHORT VIEW OF THE PROJECT Mobility done until now:
IMPACT OF THE PROJECT: Survey to students, Home and Host Universities • April 2017 • Objective; Evaluation of the Project implementation and impact
STUDENTS SURVEY (all mobility levels) • Main cultural benefits they gained (open question) • Gained more international and local cultural experience • Became more sociable and communicative • Gained skills to adapt to a new country and culture • Became more open minded • Knew new education systems • Learnt new languages
EMPLOYABILITY • What are you doing currently?
If you are working, do you consider that the EM experience helped you to find this job? • Explainwhy (open question): • EM grantholders are consideredhightprofilecandidates • EM experiencehelped in gaining new professionalskills • Language and communicationskills • Host universitydegreeisveryappreciated in Home Country
If they are studying/working abroad: do they think they will go back to their country after finishing that studies/work abroad? • Yes – 100% • Do they think that what they learned during their stay is useful for their university or country? • Yes – 97% • No – 3% • Explain why (open question) • Prepared professionals with international experience are needed for the market • Research methods can be implemented in home country • Open minded leaders are needed • Contribute with new teaching ideas to their home universities • Development of new projects in their countries
Some phrases describing CANEM II grantees experiences: • “Thefoundation of myfuturecareer has beenlaidthanks to Erasmus Mundus” • “Adaptability, Communicationskills, Criticalthinking/Problemsolvingskills” • “One can changethemind of millions” • “Theexperience I gainedopenedmyeyes and made me more flexible”
MainImpact of the Project at Home Universities: • - Reformation of thestructure of theinternationaloffices • - Expansion of theinternationalRelationsDepartments • - Integration of International Educationprogrammes at faculties • - New measuresforrecognition of credits • - Introduction of new qualityassurancemeasures • Cooperation to publishresearcharticles in EU journals • Bestpracticeslearned at host universities has beenlaterbrought to Central Asianinstitutions • Jointprojects has beendeveloped (KA2 CBHE, KA107) • Curricum has beendeveloped, as some of theteachersupdatedtheir training materialsdue to theparticipation in the Project.
HOST COORDINATORS: • Mainimpactthe Project had in theirinstitutions: • New projects has beenpresented to the Erasmus+ calls • Bilateral agreementsamongthe CA institutions and EU partners has beensigned • Participatinginstitutionsgainedcontacts in severalcountrieswhichtheyneverworkedbefore • The Project gavethemexperience in themanagement of mobilitywiththirdcountries. • Excelentexperienceforstudents and staff relatedacademic and personal pathway.
THANK YOU! canem@ulpgc.es