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AREAS+ PROJECT OUTCOMES

Explore the success and impact of the Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ project in enhancing international cooperation in higher education, including partnership expansions and positive outcomes for participating institutions.

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AREAS+ PROJECT OUTCOMES

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  1. AREAS+ PROJECT OUTCOMES Miriam Negri, International Projects and Development Cooperation Office, Politecnico di Torino areas@polito.it

  2. Timeline AREAS+ • Project proposal submission April 2013 • Proposal approval by EACEA July 2013 • Coordinators Meeting - Brussels October 2013 • Kickoff Meeting – Kuala Lumpur October 2013 • 1st Call for Applications November 2013 – February 2014 • 1st Selection Meeting - Brno April 2014 • 1stProgress Report to EACEAAugust 2014 • Implementation of mobility flows since August 2014 • 2nd Call for Applications October 2014 – February 2015 • 2nd Progress Report to EACEA February 2015 • 2nd Selection Meeting - Skype March 2015 • 3rd Progress Report to EACEA March 2016 • Call for Scholarship Extensions September 2016 • Final Meeting – Torino May 2017 • Project end 14 July 2017 • Final Report to EACEA mid-Sept 2017 Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  3. IMPROVEMENTS FROM AREAS TO AREAS+ (1) • 2 new partners: TTU (Estonia) and IIT Dhanbad (India) • Replacement of 2 AREAS partners not very active • Opportunity to newly internationalizing HEIs to grow  Goal achieved! • IIT Dhanbad: • 4 IN + 15 OUT mobilities; • 19 joint papers + 1 prototype; • 1 MoU; • internationalization process • Congrats for becoming an IIT! • TTU: • 14 IN + 7 OUT mobilities; • 2 new MoUs + 1E+ KA107 + 1E+ KA2 CBHE under submission + 1H2020 under submission • TTU comments: “…positive impact in capacity building, modernization and internationalization” “Thanks to AREAS+, TTU has proven to be an active and reliable partner, therefore was invited to participate the Erasmus+ capacity building project. Through AREAS+ mobilities…. TTU is exposed to students and scholars from a very different background, its internationalization strategy is under a stress test. The result has been satisfaction, of course with areas of improvements…” • Introduction of Co-coordinator from Asia: Hanoi University of Science and Technology - HUST (Vietnam) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  4. IMPROVEMENTS FROM AREAS TO AREAS+ (2) • Mobility flow EU -> AS • For some AS universities: first experience in welcoming EU exchange students! • Online platform for the collection of applications and project documents (AREAS+ tool) • Foster the cooperation started within AREAS • New MoUs, exchange agreements, double degree agreements • New joint supervisions of doctorate thesis, new joint papers • New joint projects Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  5. IMPROVEMENTS FROM AREAS TO AREAS+ (3) • Increase of Intra-regional cooperation among the Asian Partners: sharing of best practices  JWARCT (Joint Workshop on Academic Recognition and Credit Transfer) in Cambodia, 2014 • Cooperation with other EMA2 Partnerships in the region • JWARCT • Joint Evaluation lot 12 • Participation in Evaluation of Impact of EMA2 projects in Asia, realized by EXPERTS project Coordinator UGOE • Increasing interest in Administrative Staff mobilities: from 20% to 34% of Staff mobilities (see slide N° 15) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  6. Project outcomes Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  7. Project outcomes: call for proposals requirements (1) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  8. Project outcomes: call for proposals requirements (2) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  9. Project outcomes: call for proposals requirements (3) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  10. Project outcomes: Grantees per nationality Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  11. Project outcomes: TG1 grantees per home university Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  12. Project outcomes: Grantees per host university Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  13. Project outcomes: Grantees per host university and study level Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  14. Project outcomes: Degree seeking and exchange students Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  15. Project outcomes: Academic vs administrative staff mobilities Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  16. Project outcomes: Distribution of grantees per field of study Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  17. Project outcomes: Fields of study per host university Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  18. Project outcomes: Distribution of females and males per field of study Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  19. Project outcomes: Gender balance • Gender balance per group: • EU: 65%M – 35% F • Group A (Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam): 59%M – 41%F Males preponderance: Cambodia, Vietnam; Females preponderance: Mongolia • Group B (India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka): 51%M – 49%F Males preponderance: India; Females preponderance: Malaysia, Philippines • Improvement compared to received applications: 59% M - 41% F  +2 percentage points during selections. Why? • females submit good quality applications; • selection rules (gender balance as cross-cutting evaluation criteria) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  20. Project outcomes: Academic results – degree seeking students Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  21. Project outcomes: Academic results – MS and UGAverage ECTS achieved per semester Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  22. Project outcomes: Academic results – MS and UG students • EU MS students: outcome influenced by difficulty of some students to find appropriate courses, because of difficult match of academic calendars (Jannik Büttner) • In general, Asian students had more academic difficulties than EU students • In general, MS students performed better than UG students • Degree seeking MS students have been the most successful -> no problems of courses match, academic calendar, etc.: they can attend a program from the beginning to the end • 1 semester exchanges have been more successful than 2 semesters ones • Exception compared to all other mobility projects POLITO coordinated! • This confirms the outcome of the grantees survey of previous AREAS project: Asian students pointed out they prefer short mobilities • That’s why we have offered more short mobilities in AREAS+! Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  23. Project outcomes: Academic results - Cotutelles and Joint Papers • One Cotutelle agreement (PhD) between POLITO and HUST • Up to now, we know of 48 Scientific Papers published byAREAS+ grantees: • 18 by the 13 PhD-exchange grantees and 10 by the 6 PhD-full degree grantees • 13 by the 9 Post-Doc grantees • 7 by the 6Academic Staff grantees • 24 by Indian grantees only!  most productive AREAS+ group for scientific papers • CUL most productive Host 14Scientific Papers + 1 Prototype • 31 Scientific Papers in the Engineering/Technology field (26 survey + 5 POLITO out) • One Indian grantee published 7 Scientific Papers in the Engineering/Technology field! • AREAS+ grantees reported us 11 Prototypes developed • 5 by the 3 Post-Doc grantees • 4 by the 2 PhD-full degree grantees • 2 by an Academic Staff grantee • 2 Awards won by AREAS+ grantees! • Best Paper Award at the Photonics 2016 conference in India (Souvik Gosh, IIT Dhanbad  CUL) • 1st Place at the NanoArt contest, August 2015 (Sayari Biswas, IIT Dhanbad  INP) Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  24. PROJECT OUTCOMES: new agreements and projects between partners • Up to now, we know of 21 general agreements signed between AREAS+ partners during the project • Up to now, we know of 26 projects selected or still waiting for the results: • 22 in the frame of Erasmus+ KA107 – ICM • 2 Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE • 2 Horizon 2020 • Most “productive” partners: • MU among EU partners • HUST among AS partners Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  25. QUALITY Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  26. QUALITY • Tools for quality monitoring: • Progress and intermediate reports with section for Supervisor’s feedback (research levels only) • Periodic meetings with grantees by host universities • ToR host and ToR home collection  both academic performance and recognition • Partner surveys for the Progress / Final Reports • Grantees survey • Joint Evaluation lot 12 Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  27. Grantees survey results Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  28. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – statisticsample • Survey distributed to all AREAS+ grantees • Distributed at the end of grantee’s mobility • Grantees’ evaluation on the services received in the different phases of the mobility and on the impact of the project for their curricula, career, personal experience. • Complete replies received: 158 out of 180 grantees  86,6% Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  29. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – skills development Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  30. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – career impact Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  31. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – brain drain Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  32. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – employability Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  33. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS - satisfaction Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  34. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – Erasmus Mundus added value Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  35. GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – ema2 impact on Partner Countries Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

  36. Thank you ! Erasmus Mundus AREAS+ Project Outcomes – Politecnico di Torino, July 2017

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