EUNEG DESCRIPTION

EUNEG is a TEMPUS Joint project. It supports the development of higher education reform in the Partner Countries (Russia, Ukraine and Moldova), through cooperation with EU and in convergence with Bologna process and with EU developments deriving from the Strategic Framework for European Cooperation in education and training (ET 2020) and Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (Europe 2020).

WIDER OBJECTIVES: 

• ·         To support development of Partner Countries (PC) by better tuning of Higher Education with the socio-economic priorities of Russia, Ukraine and Moldova, by developing new programs with better use of opportunities provided by the cooperation with EU in general and through the European Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership, in particular.
• ·         To support the High Education reforms in PC in convergence with EU developments deriving from Strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020) and EUROPE 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and with Bologna process, thus contributing to the realization of the European Educational Area.
• ·         To enhance human resources, institutional and material capacity of Partner Countries’ Universities (PCUs) for applying coordinated approach in meeting the challenges the trends of European Higher Education reforms.
• ·         To enhance building up the capacity of PCUs for international cooperation and permanent modernisation, including networking between Higher Education institutions and research institutes of PC and EU countries.

Project Consortium consists from of 12 academic and 4 non-academic Partners from 3 partner countries (Moldova, Russia and Ukraine and from 4 EU countries (Germany, Italy, Romania and Slovenia.

The Department of Social and Political Studies of the University of Trieste is one of the 4 EU Academic partners. The Lead Partner is the University of Maribor.