Please find here an update on our next CBHE Virtual Fair in October 2021

• We open pre-registrations today. Please be aware that the places within the (Airmeet) Platform are limited (1250 participants) and broken down per regions.
• Those who do not succeed in being in the regional quota will have the possibility to follow the streaming of the sessions through different social media, in particular via the dedicated Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Erasmus-Capacity-Building-in-Higher-Education-Online-Fair-109758658136512  and YouTube Channel created for the Virtual Fair https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcvJXAVDeI84q2_5whFEX9A
• The booklet attached contains the Agenda and infos on projects, sessions and speakers.

On 29 and 30 September, at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Banja Luka, a hybrid model of the 2nd TAM was held. The EU expert, Professor Mile Dzelalija, University of Split, Croatia – provided two presentations, including ‘’Different model of accreditation of study programs within EHEA and beyond’’ and ‘’Best applicable models for accreditation of study programs for Bosnia and Herzegovina’’. The discussion was very productive and some of the issues discussed were as follows:

• How to harmonize accreditation of study programs procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• How to divide/combine licensing and accreditation procedures
• What are the advantages and disadvantages for Bosnia and Herzegovina related to the introduction of different models
• How to assure cooperation among different stakeholders
• How to assure an entrance to ENQA and EQAR
• How to assure financial funds for accreditation of study programs
• How to assure independence and quality of Panel
• Participation of students, alumni, and employers in all process

Please click on the link below for additional information:

Click here for the agenda of the event

Click here for the presentation provided by the Prof. Dr. Mile Dzelalija from the University of Split

TAM report on the Accreditation with recommendations

We are pleased to be sharing with you the “Study on Structural Impacts of Projects funded by the Erasmus+ ‘Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE)’ action”.

The study has been highly useful to the European Commission as a means to assess the results achieved in the Partner Countries’ higher education systems and to design the new E+ programme for the years 2021-2028.  We hope that it may also be useful to provoke thinking on future projects in your system.

In the last week of October 2021 the Erasmus+ National Offices (NEO) with the support of the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) organise a Virtual Fair to showcase best results and inspiring practices emerging from Capacity Building projects in Higher Education (CBHE).

The Virtual Fair is an online event lasting two days (26 and 27 Oct) and offering the opportunity to about 100 CBHE projects, representing all regions, to showcase their most relevant results in front of an international and varied audience composed by academics from Programme and Partner countries, university managers and students, national policy makers, EU staff and other stakeholders.

The Virtual Fair includes plenary sessions, parallel workshops and a limited number of interactive training sessions targeting small groups and carried out by project partners. Using the Airmeet IT platform, the Virtual Fair also allows for efficient networking opportunities such as sharing project ideas and partner-finding in view of the upcoming CHBE calls under the new E+ Programme.

The different sessions of the Virtual Fair will address topics such as:

• HEI’s Staff professional development
• Enhancing teaching and learning quality
• Digitalization: developing a digital course, implementing digital methodologies
• Greening higher education
• Governance and management of the HEIs
• Quality assurance methodologies and procedures
• International strategies and internationalization at home: implementing virtual exchanges, developing hybrid courses, joint virtual classrooms
• Students’ services
• Fostering inclusion of vulnerable groups
• Soft skills for the 21st century
• Third cycle education (integration of research resources from HEI and from Academia of Sciences for PhD education)
• Work-based learning/Dual system
• 3rd mission of academia

The main language of the event will be English; a limited number of workshops and training sessions are possible also in Spanish or French.

In September 2021, the final agenda of the Virtual Fair will be circulated among all potential participants and registrations will be open for a global audience of about 600 participants.

Please find below information and links to register for the European Development Days.

On 15th and 16th June, the European Commission will be celebrating the European Development Days (EDD), which this year will take place in virtual format. This year, the focus will be on “The Green Deal for a Sustainable Future”.

The EDDs gather 4.500 organizations, 154 countries and more than 66.000 participants and bring the development community together each year to share ideas and experiences in ways that inspire new partnerships and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

This time the Erasmus+ Programme will be featured prominently on a stand in the EDD Global Village, next to the EU programmes on Research and Innovation. The focus will be on the international dimension of Erasmus+ and on its role in supporting the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes on climate change and sustainable development within the European Union and beyond: https://eudevdays.eu/community/sessions/3536/eu-education-training-youth-science-innovation-research-actions.

Link to the EDD 21 event page: https://eudevdays.eu/
Link to register for the EDD 21: https://eudevdays.eu/community/

Please note that the session will be delivered via webstreaming and any interested party will be able to connect as from 09:00 Brussels time via the following link:

https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/info-session-erasmus-plus-capacity-building-in-the-field-of-youth-2021-05-27

This call will target specifically youth organisations in the Partner countries from “Region 1 - Western Balkans” (with an available budget of 3 M€) and “Region E3 – South Mediterranean countries” (with an available budget of 5M€).

Please note that for the 2021 CBY call for proposals, organisations from Regions 1 and 3 will only be able to act as partners and not as coordinators.

Due to technical reasons, several actions managed by EACEA have been postponed. 

The new deadline for Erasmus Mundus (both EMJM and EMDM) is 17 June, 17:00 Brussels time. 

Please check the official announcement:

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/news/deadline-extension-erasmus-mundus-ka2-sport-actions-and-cooperation_en

The National Erasmus+ Information Day, organized by the National Erasmus+ Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was held online on April 29^th via Zoom. Special attention was given to Erasmus Mundus Action and Jean Monnet activities, the actions of Erasmus+ program for which new Calls for Proposals were open at the end of March.

The Information Day was organized in cooperation with the Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina and was attended by the representatives of public and private higher education institutions, students and other relevant organizations in the field of higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Click below for the presentations on Erasmus Mundus action given by Jekaterina Bouttier, EACEA

1. Presentation Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters

2. Presentation Erasmus Mundus Design Measures

Click below for the presentation on Jean Monnet activities given by Edith Genser, EACEA

1. General presentation Jean Monnet Actions 2021

Info day recording