Project description:

Implementing the Erasmus programme, Polish universities have achieved good results in academic exchange within the EU but the results of cooperation with Norwegian HEIs are below average. Most of the IROs Forum member universities carry out exchange with Norway but the numbers are still too small and unbalanced.

This project aims to prepare and organize a three-panel conference promoting student and teacher exchange and identifying the opportunities allowing universities to develop the exchange. Detailed objectives comprise recognizing the factors in the activities of universities in both countries orientated at the individualization of education and involving a study or placement abroad element in the educational programme.

The project partnership includes 12 universities from Poland and Norway, connected by mutual agreements and cooperation in networks.

The project result will be a publication presenting the assessment of the current situation in the area of study and placement abroad opportunities in both countries, recommendations for the development of exchange, determination of the measures for its intensification, and the papers and good practice examples presented at the conference.

The project implementation will enhance promotion of contacts between Poland and Norway and provide an impulse to advance the cooperation, also by creating joint study programmes. The conclusions drawn from project activities will contribute to the construction of model solutions for the recognition of qualifications obtained outside the home university and for delivering English-taught programmes, and the consequent extension of study offer for foreign students. This will encourage young people to take up education and placements abroad, to design their own education paths and obtain unique competences, which will have a significant impact on the quality of education and increase mobility.