Strengthening of master curricula in water resources management for the Western Balkans HEIs and stakeholders Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthening of master curricula in water resources management for the Western Balkans HEIs and stakeholders

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

One of the major environmental and sustainability challenges of the 21st century is preserving and ensuring the most precious resource – water. Water as the basic resource incorporated into functioning of different sectors requires innovative, interdisciplinary, structural, and trans-boundary approach – strong coordination and cooperation across countries and across sectors. Western Balkan (WB) partner countries i.e. Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosovo* on their path to EU accession should harmonize procedures with EU water management requirements in line with Chapter 27 – to converge national rules and standards towards a single framework of EU water legislation. The wider objective of the SWARM project is to improve the quality of higher education in Water Resources Management (WRM) field, strengthen its relevance for the labour market and society, enhancing the level of competences and skills of experts for WRM in WB partner countries by developing new competence-based and improvement of existing master curricula in line with EU trends. This wider objective is fully compliant with the priorities of the Capacity Building projects within the Erasmus+ program.Besides day-by-day visible outcomes (reports, analyses, trainings, action plans, etc.), more prominent outputs showing to what extent the project objectives are met will be:- Developed/modernized master curricula and modules in WB partner HEIs, in accordance with the highest EU standards, – Contemporary equipped laboratories for studies in the field of WRM,- Enrollment of students to the new master curricula,-Developed and conducted for professionals in water sector.Since the background for the foreseen activities is in accordance with EU standards and the best practices it is expected that all partner universities will educate experts with adequate knowledge and competences, which will be able to employ in relevant institutions for WRM.

Project Website

http://www.swarm.ni.ac.rs

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 931289 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITET U NISU & Country: RS

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
• ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
• UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU
• UNIVERZITET DZEMAL BIJEDIC U MOSTARU SA SUPSIDIJARNOM ODGOVORNOSCU SASJEDISTEM U MOSTARU
• UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU
• JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA
• UNIVERSITY OF MITROVICA