Ukraine – Italy Cooperation: National Higher Education System

and Mobility Outcomes RecognitionGenoa – Italy

November 27-28, 2019

Svitlana Shytikova, CoordinatorNational Erasmus+ Office in Ukraine

• Capital: Kyiv

• Official language:

Ukrainian

• Literacy rate:

99.8%

• Ethnic groups: 77,8% - Ukrainians, 17,3% - Russians,

4,9 % - others

Country Profile

• 652 HEIs (282 Universities, 370 Colleges):

Higher Education Institutions in Ukraine

✓ State funded – 209 Universities, 320 Colleges

✓ Private – 73 Universities, 50 Colleges

✓ Including 14 relocated/displaced HEIs from

Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts

• About 1 322 000 Universities’ and 200 000 Colleges’ students

• About 127 000 Universities’ and 26 000 Colleges’ academic staff

• 75 605 foreign students UA HEIs database: http://studyinukraine.gov.ua/en/

Ukraine in the EU Programme Erasmus+

KA1: ICM - 13 051 mobilities: for 9 056 UA and 3 995 EU students and staff, 192 HEIs

KA1: EMJMD – 246 scholarships: 232 for Master, 14 – PhD Programmes

8 EMJMDs Projects with 1/12 partners*

KA1: Youth Mobility – 11 600 young people and youth workers

152 volunteering & 2 448 youth mobility projects

• 56 Modules

• 2 Centers

• 7 Chairs

• 5 Projects

• 7 Support for Associations

• 5 Networks• 49 partners• 36 HEIs

82 Jean Monnet projects

KA2: CBHE

• 38 projects

• 200 UA partners

• 27 mln euro

KA2: CBY

• 59 projects

• 18 as coordinators

• 6 mln euro

KA2: SP in HE

• 4 projects on Information Security, Entrepreneurship, International Mobility, Learning and Teaching

KA2: SP in Youth

• 9 projects: UA NGOs & 2 HEIs are partners

KA2: SP in Adult Education

• 4 projects: UA NGOs & 1 HEI are partners

KA2: SP in School Education

• 1 project: UA NGO is apartner

• 222 904 euro

KA – Key ActionCBHE – Capacity Building in Higher Education

CBY – Capacity Building in YouthHE – Higher Education

SP – Strategic PartnershipHEIs – higher education institutions

Ukraine in the EU Programme Erasmus+

KA3: Support for Policy Reform, Youth Dialogue Action:

44 projects with Ukrainian NGOs as partners

4 projects for higher education Policy reform support

Sport Action: Collaborative Partnerships: 5 projectswith Ukrainian NGOs as partners

Erasmus+ School Education under E-Twinning:

1 101 schools, 2 124 teachers, 3 909 projects

Ukraine in the EU Programme Erasmus+

Ukraine in Erasmus+: for 2020 callSpecial Window for Ukraine!

Capacity Building: 8 projects, 10 partners.

Erasmus+ ICM in 2015-2019:~ 36 Ukrainian Universities with ~ 17 Italian Universities.

Inclusiveness: Support to the relocated universities: HRD within mobility and CBHE projects & infrastructure in CBHE.Virtual mobility component for incoming to Ukraine.

PAGOSTE UNICLAD

31 Tempus projects28 partners

2,5 mln. – ICM; 1 mln. – CBHE; 250 000 – Jean Monnet

National Legal Framework for International Credit Mobility Recognition

✓ NQF – description of qualifications based on QF4EHEA and EQF4LLL (2011)

✓ Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education” (2014) & Law of Ukraine “OnEducation” (2017)

✓ Regulation on academic mobility approved by the Cabinet of Ministers ofUkraine (2015) (is being revised currently)

✓ List of Fields of Study and Program Subject Areas in Higher Education basedon the ISCED approved by the MESU (2015) (is being revised currently)

✓ Regulation on PhD studies with educational component and describedcompetencies (research, teaching, foreign language, research projectmanagement etc.) approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2016)Ass

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Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions’ Internal Regulations and Procedures✓ Strategies on HEIs’ strategic development;

✓ HEIs’ internationalisation strategies;

✓ Internal regulations on international cooperation and / or academic mobility withrecognition procedures and mechanisms;

✓ Official regulations of study / academic process;

✓ In-law documents on international cooperation;

✓ Decentralisation of ICM project promotion and preparation by Faculties and Chairs;

✓ Centralized open and transparent pre-selection of ICM candidates for EuropeanUniversities;

✓ Human resources development, promotion, professional growth, language etc.

✓ Quality Assurance systems in universities (modernised curricula, competence-basedapproach, learning outcomes, ECTS, student-centered approach, etc.)

(aiming at creation of internal corporate culture on KA107 implementation

and gaining responsibility for ICM recognition)

ICM recognition by Ukrainian Universities: achievements

(based on Universities’ shared experience and ICM monitoring)

▪ Institutional level: the most active universities in ICM implement effective recognitionprocedures and tools, create good and best practices to share among Ukrainianuniversities:

✓ good match of fields of knowledge and subject areas in some ICM partner universities;

✓ thorough preparation of Learning Agreements;

✓ active communication between university departments;

✓ decentralization of ICM responsibilities to Faculty Coordinators of academic mobility;

✓ recognition by Dean’s Offices at dean’s level, etc.;

✓ motivation of staff for ICM promotion and its effective implementation in HEIs.

ICM recognition by Ukrainian Universities: achievements

(based on Universities’ shared experience and ICM monitoring)

▪ Individual level of universities’ staff and students:

✓ personal leadership and dedication of HEIs’ Rectors and Vice-Rectors to ICMrecognition obligations;

✓ ICM participants (staff & students) are agents in creation of ICM recognition cultureand extending responsibility for recognition, etc.;

✓ implementation of borrowed new experience and best practices by staff into studyand administrative work process (e.g. development of courses in foreign languages,introduction of innovative learning and teaching methods, providing of new studentsservices; development/update of internationalization strategies, modernization ofprocedures and processes in ICM etc.).

ICM recognition by Ukrainian Universities: challenges

(based on Universities’ shared experience and ICM monitoring)▪ Institutional level:

✓ course catalogues delays and the often change of courses upon students’ arrival to EUuniversity cause double efforts for Ukrainian universities to recognize ICM results;

✓ delays with obtaining Transcripts of Records issued by receiving HEIs cause timely ICMrecognition, especially in a graduate semester;

✓ “course title” vs. “course learning outcomes” recognition;

✓ “student-centered” approaches are not followed in fact, although it may be declaredby a university;

✓ for ICM partners, to consider proper planning of mobility periods during last semestersof Bachelor’s or Master’s programmes (thesis defense, final exams etc.) to avoidingquestion the 3-month eligibility period;

✓ objective mismatch of academic calendar (“semester” vs. “trimester”)

ICM recognition by Ukrainian Universities: challenges

(based on Universities’ shared experience and ICM monitoring)▪ Individual level:

✓ professors’ personal perception of “impossibility” to recognize ICM results for their“special and unique courses”;

✓ students are willing to have higher grades in their home universities for their ICMresults (if they are low) in order to obtain Ukrainian scholarship (due to Ukrainian strictregulations in obtaining scholarships based on university success rating);

✓ staff requests to have free time available for intercultural learning (vs agenda with 5mobility days and day(s) for adaptation and local intercultural learning).

ICM recognition by Ukrainian Universities: recommendations

▪ National level: changes to the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation of the right for mobility andother relevant docs;

▪ Institutional level (incl. via other Erasmus+ projects – CBHE, JM, others):

✓ Institutional regulations on international cooperation, academic mobility, staffdevelopment, recognition for staff and students;

✓ Curricula modernization including a mobility window: one semester could be devoted toelective courses. Universities could include the partner universities courses into this“menu”. It will provide the flexibility for the students and staff;

▪ Individual level (incl. via other Erasmus+ projects – CBHE, JM, others):

✓ Awareness campaign among professors and training on a window mobility introductioninto curricula, development of an elective courses menu; Bologna instrumentsimplementation based on the laws requirements (ECTS, NQF, SQF, DS); pool of QA experts.

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