The overall goal of this project is to improve higher education provision in Kosovo and Albania, by building institutional capacity for international relations whereby establishing or making fully functional respective offices (including capacity for project cycle management) in all nine Kosovo and five Albanian consortium members. This project will build institutional capacity for the internationalization of HE in Kosovo and Albania, by improving capacity for project development and management through international expertise made available by European HEIs partnering in this project and exchange of good practice between the consortium members. This will make way for local higher education institutions to engage confidently in various academic and research cooperation initiatives in the region, in Europe and wider.The aim of the project is establish and develop fourteen fully functional offices of international cooperation that will also include the function of project cycle management. Currently, none of the new public universities in Kosovo and Albania has the capacity to fully run an International Cooperation Office, at a time when over 50% of students in European Higher Education institutions are studying or participating in one or another form of international studies and when a significant part of university life takes place in the form of various exchanges and mobilities. This makes it of paramount importance to build respective capacity for all members. This will ultimately contribute substantially to the quality of provision and will enrich university life and experiences of the student population in Kosovo and Albania. Therefore, having in mind the possibility of Erasmus + project to support this idea, we initiated the work as a consortium on developing this idea. The project will have very high importance in addressing increasing isolation, lack of quality international cooperation and lack of project initiatives from Kosovo and Albania universities.
The specific objectives of the project are:- Establish and strengthen existing ones thirteen (13) fully functional ICO in all Kosovo and Albania Consortium members.- Develop capacities of partner HEIS in IC development and PCM. - Develop a strategy for IC and PM- Facilitate management of international mobilities by developing operational online platform for qualitative international cooperation - Increase the number of international projects, mobilities and international agreements.
The QUADIC project was set up to improve higher education in Albania and Kosovo by increasing institutional capacity for international relations by establishing functional International Relations (IC) and Project Management (PM) Offices. It will increase success rates for EU and internationally funded projects and in funded staff/student mobilities and international agreements with HEIs outside Albania and Kosovo and increased possibilities for joint curricula taught in the English language.
<< Background >> The QUADIC project was set up to improve higher education in Albania and Kosovo by increasing institutional capacity for international relations by establishing functional International Relations (IC) and Project Management (PM) Offices. It will increase success rates for EU and internationally funded projects and in funded staff/student mobilities and international agreements with HEIs outside Albania and Kosovo and increased possibilities for joint curricula taught in the English language. << Objectives >> The specific objectives of the project are:- Establish and strengthen existing ones thirteen (13) fully functional ICO in all Kosovo and Albania Consortium members.- Develop capacities of partner HEIS in IC development and PCM. - Develop a strategy for IC and PM- Facilitate management of international mobilities by developing operational online platform for qualitative international cooperation - Increase the number of international projects, mobilities and international agreements. << Implementation >> QUADIC project was implemented in 10 WPs: •14 offices of ICO and PMO were established and developed; •28 officers for IR and PM were hired in the universities;•1 Strategy for IC and PM developed;•1 online platform for IC and PM developed; •1 association created; •1 round table organized, •4 study visit in EU countries; •9 Trainings and workshops of academic and administrative staff; •1 training of students; •1 Sustainability plan established, •1 external evaluation report << Results >> QUADIC project has created and offered to the receivers a very high level of performance, which has improved the level of internationalization and project management in Kosovo and Albania. It has made possible that the HE environment is more internationalized. The project increased the human capacities of universities and the level of performance of staff and students. As a result, more projects, more agreements, more mobilities, summer schools and conferences were organized in these years.