ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Education and training have a growing role in economic-social progress. It is necessary to align skills and competences with labour market. The increasing globalization process requires competitive students/workers in terms of productivity, quality and innovation. It is necessary to discover what is demanded on the labour market and translate it in fields of study. Education and training promotes the personal development and active citizenship but also equity, social inclusion and cohesion. The EU has a key role in supporting and supplementing to improve and modernize education systems.
The labour market is constantly evolving. Skills, competences, and qualifications that people need change over time. To deal with these changes people need to be equipped with a variety of basic skills, foreign languages, science, digital skills, trasversal skills and entrepreneurial skills will help contribute to employability of young people in particular.
In recent years, the education process is changed and it is really important to become as world’s students. In order to improve foreign languages, soft skills, strengths and to reduce weaknesses is necessary to come into contact with different cultures, people, ways of life and education systems. Trying to understand and getting to know different reality from your normal field of study enriches the personality and provide personal grow. While making ERASMUS experience, the persone get in touch with what means be open-minded, adaptable and independent.
The young generation can not stay seated and looks what happened around itself but it needs to explore the world and to have an active role in society for itself and for future generations. ERASMUS programs give the opportunity to meet new people and new cultures, to try new foods, to learn new languages, to obtain new skills, to be more sociable and talkative and much more.
University of Petru Maior participates in several European programs for higher education as TEMPUS, SOCRATES/LLP-ERASMUS, MINERVA, COMENIUS, GRUNDTVIG, LEONARDO DA VINCI, JEAN MONNET. All the activities performed within the International Programs are supported by mutual agreements signed beforehand with universities from Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Malta, Norway, Poland, Turkey.
Tempus is the European Union’s programme which supports the modernisation of higher education in the Partner Countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean region, mainly through university cooperation projects.
The Minerva Action seeks to promote European cooperation in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education.
The CEEPUS programs means “Central European Exchange Program for University Studies”
Current member countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. The legal basis is an international agreement. The main activity is to create university networks. CEEPUS covers mobility grants for students and teachers in this framework.
Links:https://www.ceepus.info/default.aspx
Erasmus+
The Erasmus+ programme aims to boost skills and employability, as well as modernising education, training, and youth work. Erasmus+ supports transnational partnership among education, training, and youth institutions and organisations to foster cooperation and bridge the worlds of Education and work in order to tackle the skills gaps we are facing in Europe.
It also supports national efforts to modernise education, training, and youth systems. In the field of sport, there is support for grassroots projects and cross-border challenges such as combating match-fixing, doping, violence and racism.
Erasmus+ brings together seven existing EU programmes in the fields of education, training. As an integrated programme, Erasmus+ offers more opportunities for cooperation across the education, training, youth and sport sectors and is easier to access than its predecessors, with simplified funding rules.
The Erasmus programme is a European Commission funding exhange programme for higher education.
The Grundtvig programme is a European funding programme and aims to strengthen the European dimension in adult education and lifelong learning across Europe.
The Leonardo da Vinci programme is a European Commission funding programme focused on the teaching and training needs of those involved in vocational education and training (VET).
The Jean Monnet Project is a European Union initiative to encourage teaching, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies in higher education institutions.
Erasmus programs
To participate students must be studying for a degree and must have completed their first year. Students do an internship for a period from 3 months to one year in another European country. The period spent abroad is recognized by every European university. Students do not pay extra tuition fees for the university where they go. There are also some benefits for accommodation and meals. It is a very important experience to put in the CV because it is often the first time for students to go abroad living and studying alone.
The aim of the ERASMUS programme is to help students adapt to the requirements of the EU-wide labour market. To provide students to develop specific skills including language and practical training skills and to understand the economic and social culture of the country. To contribute to the development of well qualified and motivated students and offer opportunities to advance themselves for their future profession. To promote cooperation between universities and organisations around Europe.
The period of training is covered by a placement agreement between the student and the home university.
At the end of your internship, full recognition will be given for the period of training abroad as agreed in the training agreement.
Links:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm
http://upm.ro/rel_internationale/docs/2014/E-CHARTER2014.pdf
