GRaduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania Erasmus Project

Project Title

GRaduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The Republic of Albania recognizes the central role of “education as a public good able to promote development” (Law no. 80/2015). The new 2015 law paved the way to an overhauling reform for improving standards in education, link HE with the labour market. Universities in Albania, with some exceptions, are at initiative stage of technological innovation needing the creation of modern ICT based structures and a trained staff. Also, no systematic information system on HE are available with phenomena of mismatch of skills in the youth market, as the current youth unemployment rate indicate. The project addresses the National priorities of enhancing university-enterprise cooperation (fostering graduates employability) and improving education quality in Albania by developing in the beneficiary Universities the graduates’ data platform, as an ICT based integrated tool for the monitoring of HE performance and its long lasting impact on society; the improving of educational supply and the matching of the demand for and supply of qualified labour. The platform will allow the collection of comprehensive data on HE system, with the information provided directly by the graduates; an evidence at disposal of policy makers on which to base decisional processes. The platform will also allow enterprises to search and compare graduates certified CVs according to specific skill giving the graduates a more democratic access to labour market and reducing skill mismatch. The project will support the Albanian universities in meeting society needs thanks to intensive knowledge, best practice transfer and reccomendation development: the activities planned will enhance university staff skills on graduates’ career development, developing professional traineeship and structured cooperation with the business world, effective tools for career guidance and students’ orientation on the labour market, advanced and competitive research tools for HE monitoring and Albanian labour market analysis.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 886919 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITETI BUJQESOR I TIRANES & Country: AL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA
• ISCTE – INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA
• UNIVERSITETI POLITEKNIK I TIRANES
• UNIVERSITETI I TIRANES
• UNIVERSITETI I ARTEVE
• EUROPEAN EDUCATION INITIATIVE
• CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO ALMALAUREA