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Description
BBU represents an emblem of success in Romanian Education, being the oldest, the largest and the most prestigious university in the country.
If we are doing a SWOT analyse of the cooperation with universities from Norway at this moment we can have the following conclusions:
Opportunities:
• high demand from students and academics for outgoing mobilities for Norway
• the Erasmus program can offer mobilities
• the possibility to extend more the cooperation’s
• the possibility to motivate incoming mobilities from Norway
• the possibility to offer more inclusions for Roma and disadvantaged
Strength:
• long term cooperation with universities from Norway
• other projects financed by Erasmus and EEA grants in implementation
• a continuous exchange of students in the last 10 years
Weakness:
• a low number of Roma students enrolled at BBU
• high bureaucracy for incoming mobilities comparing to Erasmus program
Threats
• restriction and decrease demand due to COVID pandemic
Developing joint activities with universities from Norway is complicated taking into consideration the difference of the cost of living. Without EEA grants the mobilities are decreasing considerably, the extra financial support that they offer creates the possibility for the beneficiaries to manage better the living expenses in the partner country.
There are difficulties in attracting students from Norway to Romania, however with this type of projects we can attract more incoming students. In this moment they are more comfortable with short joint activities.
Besides the target group, the project has an impact to the universities levels, we expect to have an impact also into the society by increasing the number of academic projects and exchanges that already exist.
The project is targeting national and international priorities as the increasing number of mobilities, increasing the quality of academic offer, increasing digitalisation are key elements to future higher education.
Summary of project results
The purpose of the project was to increase the number of beneficiaries for the cooperation with the donor countries and also to offer this opportunity to the disadvantage target group.
This project is an mobility project so all the phases of implementation were organized taking into consideration project needs for better results. All the activities were important for a better development of the project.
The project had the following challenges:
- the lack of interest for the potential incoming mobilities
- the cost challenges that the outgoing mobilities have including with EEA grant
In the frame of this project, we organized the following activities:
- Contracting activities
- Dissemination activities
- Selection activities
- Organization of the activities
- Major force situation activities because of the Covid
- Monitoring activities
- Reporting activities
The target groups are students and academic staff from Babes-Bolyai University and the partner donor country. The Roma beneficiaries were a priority, however there is a problem regarding the low number of registered as Roma students attending university courses.
The impact of the student mobility is:
- developing their professional background
- developing their personal skills
- developing their social and cultural skills
- a better harmonization of the academic curricula
The impact of the academic mobility is:
- developing their professional background
- developing their personal skills
- developing their social and cultural skills
- developing new teaching methods
- developing cooperation between universities
As the contract was prolonged, most of the project phases were repeated as there were several selection processes.
The results are: 21 outgoing students mobilities, 17 outgoing academic staff mobility and one incoming academic staff. The project had an impact for the professional and personal development of the beneficiaries. The higher institutions from Norway offers high quality in education being an important element for choosing an academic mobility.
This project brought an increase in the number of mobilities from the previous projects.
Summary of bilateral results
The EEA grant scheme offer the possibility of having donor project partner countries to have better results in increasing the cooperation.This project has an impact on the society by offering a better understanding between the Norwegian and Romanian cultures. However, the impact is low, because the number of mobilities are low compared with the Erasmus program.The results are: 21 outgoing students mobilities, 17 outgoing academic staff mobility and one incoming academic staff. The collaboration manage to improve the level of understanding and transfer of knowledge leading to different other opportunities.The cooperation already continue under the Erasmus program and there are different other types of activities organized jointly. It is important both at institutions level but also at beneficiary level to continue the cooperation as the impact is for the society.