Description
The main goal of the University of Maribor is internationalization at home, especially since eleven foreign professors and experts from NIBIO Norwegian Istitute of Bioeconomy Research (Norway), DNV GL AS (Norway), Nord-Trondelag University College (HINT) (Norway), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway), University of Bergen (Norway) and University of Akureyri (Iceland) will be involved in teaching and research processes at the University. With their visit and lectures they will promote internationalization at home, since through them numerous students will have an international experience without their own mobility. The project will also deliver at least 67 student, professor and researcher mobilities, thus, participants will receive a study or academic international experience in the country with a large thematic emphasis on sustainable development, human resource development and protection of the environment.
Summary of project results
The main objective, set in this project, was the so-called "Internationalization at home." A number of 'incoming' mobility have helped to give students and employees at the University of Maribor (UM) the possibility of an international experience without their own mobility. UM strives for study programs that are more oriented to problem solving, joining knowledge and infrastructure, what is established practice at the higher education institutions of donor countries. With the "incoming mobility" the employed at UM gained new insights into the way of work with students, and in particular, in the design of study programs, focused on the development of problem-solving skills. Another important objective of the project, which is no less important than the first, is in-depth scientific research cooperation. In this context, some faculties of UM have taken the opportunity of such cooperation, which is already reflected in the large number of partnerships or collaborations that have been developed in this project and whose purpose is to expand them in joint research projects and integration into other projects of UM.
Summary of bilateral results
This project contributed to the formation of new partnerships in the field of scientific research between UM on the one hand and higher education institutions and firms from the donor countries on the other hand. Especially worth mentioning are the following: 1.Cooperation of the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences UM with a Norwegian company BIOFORSK and Norwegian University of Life Sciences in the field of mutual research in livestock breeding (pig farming); 2.Cooperation between the Faculty of Medicine UM with Norwegian institutions (companies) Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, RBUP Øst & Sør - RBUP DNV and DNV GL, on the basis of which the Faculty of Medicine will open a new course, i.e. on evidence based medicine, in the academic year 2016/17; 3. Cooperation between the Faculty of Health Sciences UM and the University of Akureyri in the academic field of medicine and nursing. In the project, we put emphasis also on the themes of environmental protection. On this subject we hosted 6 lecturers and 4 experts, who gave lectures to students and staff at UM. These lectures were joined under a common title "What is waste and what to do with it." The purpose of the lectures was to raise the awareness of students and academic staff of various study fields of the importance of sorting and waste reprocessing, and the role of the various study fields that may contribute to it. These lectures were also attended by representatives of the Municipality of Maribor and local businesses that deal with this issue (Snaga, Surovina, Nigrad). These lectures had great importance for UM since it was a good example of cooperation between universities with the local economy, interdisciplinary solving of current problems and the transfer of knowledge from universities to the local environment.