Strengthening university autonomy and increasing accountability and transparency of Western Balkans Universities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthening university autonomy and increasing accountability and transparency of Western Balkans Universities

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Higher education governance and its autonomy is strongly enhanced by the effective and convincing accountability, transparency and financial sustainability. Discussions on the university governance and autonomy throughout HEIs in Europe are coming as a response to diverse challenges at the different country’s context. As a result, the need for gaining and enhancing public trust in higher education became manifest to develop appropriate forms of transparency and accountability of both public and private institutions. An initiative to form a consortium came as response to address these challenges through the project Strengthening university autonomy and increasing accountability and transparency of Western Balkans Universities /STAND project .The concept entails investing in the strengthening the mechanisms that ensures the long-term sustainability of university autonomy, transparency and accountability. The project foresees cooperation between HEIs in the WB region, their respective ministries and program country partners and contributes to the increasing of professional capacities of HEI staff in partnering HEIs. As structural project it will support reflecting on standards at EU partners and enhancing them at WB institutions through intensified regular academic and management exchange of good practice and sustainable networking between EU-WB partners. A mix of bottom-up and top-down approach that will be used in the project, fosters the dialogue between universities and ministries, and thus enables the consortium to contribute more effectively to the project implementation and sustainability to strengthen the autonomy of Western Balkans higher education institutions. The project aims to reach up to 50,000 persons engaged in higher education and other related activities in Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro and abroad through its dissemination activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999081 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE MITROVICA & Country: XK

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITETI I SHKENCAVE TE APLIKUARA NE FERIZAJ
• UNIVERSITESI I GJAKOVES FEHMI AGANI
• UNIVERSITETI POLIS SHPK
• UNIVERSITETI I TIRANES
• ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DE L’UNIVERSITE
• JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA
• MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY