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Welcome to eLINK Project Meeting at Fez, Morocco 19-21 st October. Agenda. 19 th October 2009 18:00-19:00: Registration (Tea/Coffee/drinks will be available) 19:00 – 20:30: Welcome Session Discussion on current status of the Project Preparation for 20 th and 21 st October
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Welcome to eLINK Project Meeting at Fez, Morocco 19-21st October
Agenda 19th October 2009 18:00-19:00: Registration (Tea/Coffee/drinks will be available) 19:00 – 20:30: Welcome Session Discussion on current status of the Project Preparation for 20th and 21st October 8:30 – 10:00: Dinner
Agenda • 20th October 2009 • 11:00 -13:00: Mobility Status • Apologies • Co-ordinator’s briefing • Short briefing from each partner (tea/coffee will be available in the room) • 12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break • 14:00 – 17:00: Constraints and how to overcome these (tea and coffee will be available in the room) • 16:00 – 18:00: Strategic decision on VLC, next SKIMA, Collaborative Hybrid Learning etc. • 19:00: Dinner with other project co-ordinators
Agenda 21st October 2009 (Dr. Dahal will be leading this part) 9:00 – 11:00: Introducing eLINK in the inaugural session of the SKIMA 2009 11:00 -13:00: Sustainability (tea and coffee will be available in the meeting room) 13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break 14:00 – 16:00: Joint SKIMA/CPI meeting to extend collaboration with Africa 19:30 - Dinner (local food).
Information Official Start Date: December 2008 Contract Signed: February 2009 Funding Obtained: 70% by March 2009 KickOff Meeting (Dhaka): 5-7 April 2009 (Dhaka) Deadline for all mobility: 1st September 2009 (applied for ext.) Management meetings: Physical (2) and virtual (3) Money distributed to all EU partner countries (status) Spent about 46K (Dhaka meeting, Advertisement, web development, Brussels meetings + central administration)
Information Meeting with EU officials (June 24th) for Extension (Thanks to Prof. Aziz to provide support for that) Meeting with 8 Asian Co-ordinators held on 28th September (discussed future project plan) Meeting with all ERASMUS co-ordinators to be held 22-23rd in Brussels 3rd request has been sent to Brussels for extension till end of January 2010 There will be few funding calls coming at November and December Should we do something for FP7 call?
Apologies & Report from Dr. Suiran Yu Report: Word document provided
Constraints Matching of the UG/PG programmes Very Low Management Fund Very low Tuition Fee/Bench Fee Number modules students are attending Academic staff mobility (PhD/Post-doc/Academic Staff) Visa processing (Response from EU side) CAS Letter processing delay in the UK universities Weak communication media (Asian side)
Expectations Research Paper – at least one from each research candidate Research Funding Applications – at least one from each Post-doc candidate SKIMA continuation – Publish paper through SKIMA Future Project Funding Application – Particularly for Collaborative Hybrid Learning or Research Center Others - Awareness, best practices, VLC, Knowledge exchange ..
Issues to be addressed in Fez Meeting Costs (4 days as before) – Please fill your form here SKIMA attendance (registration fee) & No. of Publications Full scope of study (how many modules student should attend ) Exchange of mobility Academic staff mobility (PhD/Post-doc/Academic Staff) SKIMA 2010 (venue selection) Italy wants to organise a meeting for eLINK projects Any other issues raised by Team Leaders
Congratulationsto ULL (France) and CUB (Hungary) for their effort & 100% successin the 1st Phase of Mobility
Future Mission – Collaborative Research Center”Lets work together to make the World better “ Website: elink-edu.eu Thanks