Post on 17-May-2018
Miriam Negri, International Projects and Development Cooperation Office, Politecnico di Torino areas@polito.it
TIMELINE AREAS+ Project proposal submission April 2013
Proposal approval by EACEA July 2013 Coordinators Meeting - Brussels October 2013
Kickoff Meeting – Kuala Lumpur October 2013 1st Call for Applications November 2013 – February 2014 1st Selection Meeting - Brno April 2014
1st Progress Report to EACEA August 2014 Implementation of mobility flows since August 2014
2nd Call for Applications October 2014 – February 2015 2nd Progress Report to EACEA February 2015 2nd Selection Meeting - Skype March 2015
3rd Progress Report to EACEA March 2016 Call for Scholarship Extensions September 2016
Final Meeting – Torino May 2017 Project end 14 July 2017 Final Report to EACEA mid-Sept 2017
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IMPROVEMENTS FROM AREAS TO AREAS+ (1) 1) 2 new partners: TTU (Estonia) and IIT Dhanbad (India)
• Replacement of 2 AREAS partners not very active • Opportunity to newly internationalizing HEIs to grow Goal achieved! • IIT Dhanbad:
• 4 IN + 15 OUT mobilities; • 19 joint papers + 1 prototype; • 1 MoU; • internationalization process • Congrats for becoming an IIT!
• TTU: • 14 IN + 7 OUT mobilities; • 2 new MoUs + 1E+ KA107 + 1E+ KA2 CBHE under submission + 1H2020 under submission • TTU comments: “…positive impact in capacity building, modernization and internationalization” “Thanks to
AREAS+, TTU has proven to be an active and reliable partner, therefore was invited to participate the Erasmus+ capacity building project. Through AREAS+ mobilities…. TTU is exposed to students and scholars from a very different background, its internationalization strategy is under a stress test. The result has been satisfaction, of course with areas of improvements…”
2) Introduction of Co-coordinator from Asia: Hanoi University of Science and Technology - HUST (Vietnam)
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IMPROVEMENTS FROM AREAS TO AREAS+ (2) 3) Mobility flow EU -> AS
• For some AS universities: first experience in welcoming EU exchange students!
4) Online platform for the collection of applications and project documents (AREAS+ tool)
5) Foster the cooperation started within AREAS • New MoUs, exchange agreements, double degree agreements • New joint supervisions of doctorate thesis, new joint papers • New joint projects
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IMPROVEMENTS FROM AREAS TO AREAS+ (3)
6) Increase of Intra-regional cooperation among the Asian Partners: sharing of best practices JWARCT (Joint Workshop on Academic Recognition and Credit Transfer) in Cambodia, 2014
7) Cooperation with other EMA2 Partnerships in the region
• JWARCT • Joint Evaluation lot 12 • Participation in Evaluation of Impact of EMA2 projects in Asia, realized by
EXPERTS project Coordinator UGOE
8) Increasing interest in Administrative Staff mobilities: from 20% to 34% of Staff mobilities (see slide N° 15)
PROJECT OUTCOMES: call for proposals requirements (1)
Call for proposals EACEA/38/12 - lot 12
Max. per project AREAS+ Proposal Implemented
Budget € 12,2 millions € 3,05 millions € 3,025 millions
€ 2,868 millions
Flows 480 mobilities • 400 Asia -> EU • 80 EU -> Asia
Min. 120 mobilities • 100 Asia -> EU • 20 EU -> Asia
183 mobilities • 138 Asia -> EU • 45 EU -> Asia 2nd Selection Meeting: reduction to 180
180 mobilities • 132 Asia -> EU • 48 EU -> Asia Drop out: 22
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: call for proposals requirements (2)
Distribution per level
Call for proposals EACEA/38/12 - lot 12
AREAS+ Budget Proposal Implemented
Undergraduate 20 – 40 % 24,59% 28,33 %
Master 15 – 35 % 31,15% 28,89 %
PhD 10 – 30 % 11,48% 11,11 %
Post Doc 5 – 20 % 8,20% 7,22 %
Staff 15 – 35 % 24,59% 24,44 %
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: call for proposals requirements (3)
Distribution per Group
Call for proposals EACEA/38/12 - lot 12
AREAS+ Budget Proposal
Implemented
Distribution per Target Group
TG1 min. 50 %
TG1: 83,61% TG2: 13,11% TG3: 3,28%
TG1: 82,78 % TG2: 13,89 % TG3: 3,33 %
Distribution per Country Group Group A: Cambodia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos Group B: Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Group A min. 30 % Group A: 37,70% Group B: 37,70% EU: 24,59%
Group A: 35 % Group B: 38,33 % EU: 26,67 % • Fewer grantees than planned
from Laos (no applications 2nd call)
• Many grantees from India • High participation from EU
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Grantees per nationality
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: TG1 grantees per home university
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Grantees per host university
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Grantees per host university and study level
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Degree seeking and exchange students
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20%
80%
Degree seeking
Exchange
PROJECT OUTCOMES: Academic vs administrative staff mobilities
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66%
34%
Academic Staff
Administrative Staff
Increased Administrative Staff mobilities compared to AREAS: AREAS: 16 Acad. + 4 Admin. (80% Acad. Vs 20% Admin.) AREAS+: 29 acad. + 15 Admin. (66% Acad. Vs 34% Admin.) Why is it important? - AS Admin. staff training on EU HEIs system and EU projects - EU Admin. staff training on Asian HEIs system and organization - Discussion of new agreements and projects
PROJECT OUTCOMES: Distribution of grantees per field of study
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Agriculture 2%
Architecture, Planning 3%
Business, Management
14%
Education 2%
Engineering 41%
Geography 4%
Law 1%
Medicine 1%
Natural Sciences 4%
Social Sciences 17%
Other 11%
PROJECT OUTCOMES: Fields of study per host university
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Distribution of females and males per field of study
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Agriculture 1%
Architecture, Planning
3%
Business, Management
12%
Education 1%
Engineering 48%
Geography 1%
Medicine 1%
Natural Sciences
7%
Social Sciences
16%
Other 10%
Distribution of male grantees per field of study
Agriculture 2%
Architecture, Planning
4%
Business, Management
17%
Education 3%
Engineering 31% Geography
9%
Law 3%
Natural Sciences
1%
Social Sciences
17%
Other 13%
Distribution of female grantees per field of study
• Gender balance per group:
• EU: 65%M – 35% F • Group A (Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam): 59%M – 41%F Males preponderance: Cambodia, Vietnam; Females preponderance: Mongolia • Group B (India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka): 51%M – 49%F Males preponderance: India; Females preponderance: Malaysia, Philippines
PROJECT OUTCOMES: Gender balance
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• Improvement compared to received applications: 59% M - 41% F +2 percentage points during selections. Why?
females submit good quality applications;
selection rules (gender balance as cross-cutting evaluation criteria)
Study level Number of grantees
Already graduated Comments
UG full 1 0 Planned graduation: January 2018
MS full 17 15 1 mobility interruption 1 planned graduation on January 2018
PhD full 6 0
1 significant delay (interruption + academic difficulties) despite student’s commitment 1 slight delay, graduation planned on November 2018 4 good/brilliant performance
PROJECT OUTCOMES: Academic results – degree seeking students
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Academic results – MS and UG Average ECTS achieved per semester
Mobility type 1 semester mobility
2 semesters mobility
4 semesters mobility
5 semesters mobility All durations
EU -> AS MS 28 (6 students) 19 (5 students) / / 24 (11 students)
EU -> AS UG 26 (13 stud.) 27 (4 stud.) / / 27 (17 stud.)
EU -> AS all 28 (19 stud.) 23 (9 stud.) / / 26 (28 stud.)
AS -> EU MS 20 (12 stud.) 22 (12 stud.) 29 (17 stud.) / 27 (41 stud.)
AS -> EU UG 23 (4 stud.) 20 (29 stud.) / 29 (1 stud.) 21 (34 stud.)
AS -> EU all 21 (16 stud.) 21 (41 stud.) 29 (17 stud.) 29 (1 stud.) 24 (75 stud.)
ALL MS 23 (18 stud.) 22 (17 stud.) 29 (17 stud.) / 26 (52 stud.)
ALL UG 25 (17 stud.) 21 (33 stud.) / 29 (1 stud.) 22 (51 stud.)
ALL STUDENTS 24 (35 stud.) 21 (50 stud.) 29 (17 stud.) 29 (1 stud.) 25 (103 stud.)
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Academic results – MS and UG students
• EU MS students: outcome influenced by difficulty of some students to find appropriate courses, because of difficult match of academic calendars (Jannik Büttner)
• In general, Asian students had more academic difficulties than EU students
• In general, MS students performed better than UG students
• Degree seeking MS students have been the most successful -> no problems of courses match, academic calendar, etc.: they can attend a program from the beginning to the end
• 1 semester exchanges have been more successful than 2 semesters ones Exception compared to all other mobility projects POLITO coordinated! This confirms the outcome of the grantees survey of previous AREAS project:
Asian students pointed out they prefer short mobilities That’s why we have offered more short mobilities in AREAS+!
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: Academic results - Cotutelles and Joint Papers • One Cotutelle agreement (PhD) between POLITO and HUST • Up to now, we know of 48 Scientific Papers published by AREAS+ grantees:
• 18 by the 13 PhD-exchange grantees and 10 by the 6 PhD-full degree grantees • 13 by the 9 Post-Doc grantees • 7 by the 6 Academic Staff grantees • 24 by Indian grantees only! most productive AREAS+ group for scientific papers • CUL most productive Host 14 Scientific Papers + 1 Prototype • 31 Scientific Papers in the Engineering/Technology field (26 survey + 5 POLITO out) • One Indian grantee published 7 Scientific Papers in the Engineering/Technology field!
• AREAS+ grantees reported us 11 Prototypes developed
• 5 by the 3 Post-Doc grantees • 4 by the 2 PhD-full degree grantees • 2 by an Academic Staff grantee
• 2 Awards won by AREAS+ grantees! • Best Paper Award at the Photonics 2016 conference in India (Souvik Gosh, IIT Dhanbad CUL) • 1st Place at the NanoArt contest, August 2015 (Sayari Biswas, IIT Dhanbad INP)
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PROJECT OUTCOMES: new agreements and projects between partners
• Up to now, we know of 21 general agreements signed between AREAS+ partners during the project
• Up to now, we know of 26 projects selected or still waiting for the results: • 22 in the frame of Erasmus+ KA107 – ICM • 2 Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE • 2 Horizon 2020
• Most “productive” partners:
• MU among EU partners • HUST among AS partners
QUALITY Tools for quality monitoring:
• Progress and intermediate reports with section for Supervisor’s feedback (research levels only)
• Periodic meetings with grantees by host universities
• ToR host and ToR home collection both academic performance and recognition
• Partner surveys for the Progress / Final Reports
• Grantees survey
• Joint Evaluation lot 12
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GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – statistic sample
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• Survey distributed to all AREAS+ grantees
• Distributed at the end of grantee’s mobility • Grantees’ evaluation on the services received in the
different phases of the mobility and on the impact of the project for their curricula, career, personal experience.
• Complete replies received: 158 out of 180 grantees 86,6%
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – Skills development
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10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%Academic skills
Professional skills
Host country language
English competence
International oriented attitude
Financial management
Self confidence
Broadenind horizons
Considering your personal Erasmus Mundus mobility experience, how would you assess your formal and informal development of the following skills:
Average
Excellent
Good
No Answer
Poor
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – Career impact
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100%
Undergraduate Master PhD Post Doc Staff
34% 50%
29% 38%
46%
12%
8%
6%
8%
14%
6%
54% 42%
65% 54%
34%
Mobility impact on current employment/career opportunities
VeryimportantNotimportantIndifferent
Important
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – Brain drain
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60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
UG MS PhD Post Doc Staff
22% 23%
6%
7% 19%
4% 9%
4%
1% 3%
Are you currently pursuing you study/career:
Abroad
In your home country
Most of grantees currently pursuing their studies abroad are still at host university because they needed some extra time to complete their program (especially PhD)
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – Employability
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UG MS PhD Post Doc Staff
56% 48%
65%
8% 3%
2% 12%
6%
8%
32% 28% 6%
6%
10% 12% 24%
85% 91%
Are you currently:
Working in auniversity/researchinstituteWorking in acompany/enterprise
In search for a job
Continuing yourstudies
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS - Satisfaction
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62%
32%
6%
On the whole, how do you assess your mobility experience?
Excellent
Good
Reasonable
Poor
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – Erasmus Mundus added value
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Different teaching methods
Multicultural environment
Specialized courses
Field research
Lab research
International conferences/seminars
Working with qualified researchers/professors
Joint collaboration Home-Host uni
Implem. at Home uni of new methods learnt
88
122
59
46
44
61
80
67
42
What do you think is the added value of your Erasmus Mundus mobility?
GRANTEES SURVEY RESULTS – EMA2 impact on Partner Countries
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20
40
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100
Facilitate mutualrecognition of study
Internationalization,academic excellence,
visibility of AS uni
Harmonizationbetween AS and EU
Higher EducationSystems
Cooperation amongEU and AS uni
Culture and skills forpeaceful andsustainable
development
Combat racism andpromote
interculturaleducation
Combat all forms ofdiscrimination
Contribution of Erasmus Mundus programme to…
VeryimportantImportant
NotimportantIndifferent
No answer