Mobility Project

Project facts

Project promoter:
'Babes Bolyai ' University of Cluj Napoca
Project Number:
RO15-0049
Target groups
Students,
Teachers, trainers, managers, leaders and other staff within higher education institutions
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€99,000
Final project cost:
€97,800
From EEA Grants:
€ 88,020
The project is carried out in:
Cluj

Description

The project proposal is aiming the increase number of mobilities between universities from Romania and Norway. The overall objective is aiming to increase the incoming and outgoing flows of mobility for students and academics. The specific objectives are: the increasing number of bilateral agreements, the extend of the fields mentioned in the bilateral agreements and the increase in quality regarding the student mobility. The results obtained until now in exchanging students and teachers between BBU and Norwegian universities underlined the need to focus more on developing and strengthening the cooperation. The expected outcomes are focusing first on the direct beneficiaries (students and academics that will participate to the program), and then on indirect beneficiaries (other students and academics that will be in contact with the results, because of the dissemination process). The final results will be: an increased number of flows, an increased number of bilateral agreements and the extension of the fields mentioned in the bilateral agreement. The role of the donor and partner universities will be based on an equal partnership that will be the basic principle in establishing a qualitative scheme of mobilities, offering courses in English and sustaining the social and academic integration of the incoming students and academics.

Summary of project results

The project was needed in order to develop mobilities with Norwegian universities, taking into consideration the low number of mobilities that are implemented without a higher financial support to cover the high living expenses. There were not any printed materials delivered as a result to the activities. The only outputs were the actual mobilities: 14 outgoing student mobility for studies, 3 outgoing staff mobility for teaching and 1 incoming staff mobility for teaching. The main benefit for the beneficiaries is that they can study or teach in Norway. Without the EEA grants this opportunity would be available for less people, taking into consideration the high living costs. The donor partnership achieved besides offering grants that are correlated with the living costs, the entire financing schemes being concentrated on developing the mobilities encourage the increasing of the mobilities.

Summary of bilateral results

The bilateral agreement by themselves to not help to increase the cooperation between the universities. On long term, based of the mobilities exchange there were developed more activities between Babes-Bolyai University and Norwegian universities. The EEA grant program offers you the possibility to finance the mobilities. The lack of finances from this program generated 0 mobilities between Babes-Bolyai University and Norwegian Universities. Even though the relations are still good and we managed to have some Erasmus bilateral agreements that replace the EEA agreements we cannot organize the student and teaching mobilities without the funds. The exchange of the mobilities generated other types of cooperation, but the lack of funds creates difficulties in organizing the activities in Norway. Most of them are organized in Romania. A long term agreement supported the increased number of beneficiaries, the increased of the quality of each mobility and increased the visibility (a higher number of beneficiaries increase the visibility).