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Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Foundation
• November 21-24, 2001 - Trieste (Italy)
• The idea to create a CEI University as a
  contribution of the Central European Initiative
  to higher education in its member countries was
  launched during the Summit Meeting of Heads of
  Government of the Central European Initiative
• November 2003 - Warsaw (Poland)
• The Founding Charter of the CEI University
  Network was drafted and submitted to the CEI
  Summit of the Heads of Government held in
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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Aims
• To facilitate the co-operation among the
  Universities and other Institutions of Higher
  Learning of the 17 CEI Member States
• Founding Principle
• To support mobility of students and teachers at
  academic level
• through teaching grants and scholarship awards
  for specific Joint Programmes at post-graduate
  level (Masters courses, PhD. programmes, Summer
  Schools, Seminars and workshops)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• JOINT PROGRAMMES
• Mandatory requirements
• to involve at least 2 Universities from different
  CEI Member States
• to fall within one of the 6 priority areas of
  cooperation
• Economics
• Public Administration and Governance Models
• Infrastructures and Transport
• Information and Communication Technology
• Urban Planning and Regional Development
• Environment

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• JOINT PROGRAMMES
• Emphasis on
• participation of countries in special need
  Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia,
  Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia
  Montenegro and Ukraine
• mobility of students through what are known as
  Split Joint Programmes (i.e. courses held in
  more than one University by dividing the course
  into various segments and assigning one to each
  of them)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• Achievements
• 19 Joint Programmes (7 in 2004 and 12 in 2005)
  linking more than 70 Universities in 16 CEI
  Member States with around 700 participants

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Examples of JPs approved in the area of Economics
• 1 - Masters course in e-Business (Business to
  Business Business to Consumer) in the Framework
  of the Masters in e-Business and e-Government
  Technologies
  
• 2 - Masters course in Planning and Management
  of Cooperation and Training Activities for
  Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans
• 3 - Master's for the Balkans 2005
• 4 - Masters course in European Studies
• 5 - MIREES Masters in Eastern European
  Studies

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• Masters in e-Business

• Objectives
• implementation in business management
• training in the fields of Economics and
  Information and Communication Technology

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Masters in e-Business
• Universities involved
• University of Graz (Austria)
• University of Maribor (Slovenia)
• Univeristy of Rijeka (Croatia)
• University of Trieste (Italy)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Masters in Planning and Management of
  Cooperation
• and Training Activities for Central and Eastern
  Europe and the Balkans
• Objectives
• offering a comprehensive training course to
  public and private groups committed to planning a
  management of economics and educational, cultural
  and humanitarian cooperation in Central and
  South-eastern Europe

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Masters in Planning and Management of
  Cooperation
• and Training Activities for Central and Eastern
  Europe and the Balkans
• Universities involved
• Budapest University of Economic Sciences and
  Public Administration (Hungary)
• University of Padua (Italy)
• University of Primorska, Koper (Slovenia)
• Slovak Academy of Sciences (Institute for
  Forecasting and Institute of Slovak and World
  Economy), Bratislava (Slovakia)
• Technical University of Wroclaw (Poland)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• Master's for the Balkans 2005
• Objectives
• to support the economic development
• to improve the human resources skills of the
  countries involved
• It is composed of three international master's
  courses dedicated to the Balkan areas
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• 1. Geographic Information Science for the
  Economic and Spatial Analysis and Decisions
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• 2. Technology Transfer and Industrial Product
  Development Systems
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• 3. Transport, Logistics and Economic Integration
  with the Balkan Area.

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• Master's for the Balkans 2005
• Universities involved
• Academia de Studii Economice (Romania)
• Agricultural University of Tirana (Albania)
• University of Belgrade (Serbia Montenegro)
• University of Trieste (Italy)
• Polytechnic University of Tirana (Albania)
• University of Rijeka (Croatia)
• University of Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina)
• University of Skopje (Macedonia)
• University of Tirana (Albania)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• Masters in European Studies
• Objectives
• to fit the competences of the European Affairs
  Professionals and tackle issues such as Common
  Policies of the European Union, Economic and
  Monetary Union, Methods of Regional and EU
  Analysis

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• Masters in European Studies
• Universities involved
• University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
• BRIE (Bulgarian-Romanian Interuniversity Europe)
  Center at University of Rousse (Bulgaria)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
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• MIREES
• Masters in Eastern European Studies
• Main topics
• Political and international relations
• Organisation
• Institute for Central and Eastern Europe and the
  Balkans of the
• University of Bologna based (Forlì campus)

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8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• MIREES Masters in Eastern European Studies
• Universities involved
• University of Bologna (Italy) University of
  Tirana (Albania) European Humanities University,
  Minsk (Belarus) University of Sarajevo
  (Bosnia-Herzegovina) New Bulgarian University,
  Sophia (Bulgaria) University of Rjieka
  (Croatia) University of Zagreb (Croatia)
  University of Economics, Prague (Czech Republic)
  Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic)
  Budapest Business School (Hungary) Institute for
  Social and European Studies, Szombathely
  (Hungary) University of Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw
  School of Economics (Poland) National School of
  Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest
  (Romania) University of Bucharest (Romania)
  University of Belgrade (Serbia Montenegro)
  University of Novi Sad (Serbia Montenegro)
  Matej Bel University, Banska Bistrica (Slovak
  Republic) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).

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Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• CONCLUSIONS
• the CEI UniNet
• is an instrument fully complying with the general
  mandate of the CEI and responding to the
  changing European environment, where an increase
  in qualified assistance from institutions of
  higher learning is considered of great importance
  for the social and economic development of
  Eastern and Central European countries
• permits mobility of teaching staff and students
  through various CEI Member States

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Bratislava Slovak Republic
8th CEI Summit Economic Forum23-24 November 2005
Bratislava Slovak Republic
knowledge through mobility

• PRESENT GOALS
• to enhance the number of Applicant and
  Participating Universities, in order to achieve a
  widespread mobility within Universities and
  Institutions of higher learning throughout the
  whole CEI Region