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EU Training and Mobility Programmes
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The presentation will outline Sapienza’s approach and policies aiming at:
• improving participation to International EU funded programmes,
• increasing students and graduates mobility,
• developing internationalisation at home
Results will be given for the following programmes:
• Leonardo da Vinci placement programmes for graduates• Erasmus Mundus: • Double and Joint degrees• International degrees taught in English
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Enterprise-University cooperation: Leonardo placements for students and graduates
National regulation:• Placements for students and graduates (until 18 months after graduation) are
provided for by Italian law since 1997.
Degree reform following implementation of Bologna Process• Since 2001 placements were included in the curricula of new two cycles
degree system.• Consultation with main stakeholders in the labour market in the design of new
degrees• Universities progressively set up orientation/placement services to cater for
the growing demand for placement coming from students and recent graduates.
• Sapienza implemented CE funded Leonardo projects since 2002-2003 in partnership with Rome’s state universities: 2 project lines
– Sectorial placement– Placements for all faculties
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Unipharma-Graduates
• Unipharma-Graduates aims at providing recent graduates in the fields of Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnologies with 24 week placements in about 43 high quality European pharmaceutical research centres.
• 6 Leonardo projects since 2002-03
• 267 placements already implemented and 60 are planned for the coming months.
• At the end of their experience, the trainees are free to accept any position offered by the hosting institution (Ph.D. scholarships, research positions etc.). The project is thus offering support to young MSc graduates willing to start an excellent scientific career in basic research in the field, by providing opportunities to profit from PhD positions in some of the best research centres in Europe. In this regard, participation to other European mobility programs (Marie Curie, etc ) is highly encouraged.
• Overall objective:“to foster a new generation of excellent Italian scientists who will spend a significant portion of their career in other European countries and will become real citizens of Europe”.
Placements for recent graduates in the fields of Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnologies
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Unipharma-GraduatesThe partners: some of the centres hosting our trainees
ÖSTERREICHGraz - Joanneum ResearchBELGIUMLeuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratory for Organic & Microwave-Assisted ChemistryDEUTSCHLANDBerlin – Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular GeneticsFrankfurt – Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHKarlsruhe – University, Institute of Organic ChemistryKarlsruhe – Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe –Leipzig - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchDANMARKBallerup – Leo PharmaFRANCEGrenoble - Laboratoire HumProTherLyon - Ecole Normale SupérieureLyon - Institut de Biologie et Chimie des ProtéinesNantes - Institut National de la RechercheAgronomique (INRA)Paris - Institut CurieParis – Université Paris Descartes, BiomedicalFaculty, INSERM U648, Paris – UMR U978 INSERM, Université Paris 13
ESPAÑABarcelona - Centre de Regulació GenòmicaBarcelona - Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)Barcelona - Parc Científic de BarcelonaBarcelona – Universitat de BarcelonaBilbao – Cic bioGUNEMadrid – Centro Nacional de BiotecnologiaTres Cantos (Madrid) – Noscira S.A.NEDERLANDGroningen - Dept of Pharmacy,University of GroningenWageningen– Plant Research InternationalSVERIGEStockholm - Karolinska InstitutetUNITED KINGDOMCambridge – Babraham InstituteCambridge - Horizon Discovery,Cambridge - Innova Biosciences Ltd,Cambridge - Zoragen BiotechnologiesLiverpool – Unilever Research and DevelopmentNewcastle - NewChem Technologies LimitedNorwich - Institute of Food ResearchWindlesham - Eli Lilly and Co. Ltd
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Unipharma-GraduatesManagement and evaluation tools
• Work programmes requested in advance to the hosting laboratories
• Selective but well disseminated call for applications
• Ranking of all applicants (410 applications this year) according to academic records, publications, relevant research experiences, language competence
• 5 motivated placement choices requested to the top 50 candidates (who are allowed to get in touch with the former trainees by e-mail)
• Match with the research programme based on the scientific and technical skills of the candidate
• On line management tools for communication with trainees (personal web page) and for recording of all administrative steps
• Scientific report written by all trainees at the end of the placement, validated by the signature of the authorized person of the hosting Research Centre.
• Beneficiaries fill an on-line evaluation report
• Tutors at the host centres send an evaluation report of each trainee
• All beneficiaries receive the Europass-Mobility document which certifies of the training period of each beneficiary as an integral part of her/his vocational training.
• Long lasting ties with past trainees to keep track of their careers and to orientate future trainees
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Unipharma-Graduates
Qualitative results
Trainees evaluation• Efficiency of sending institution: 84%• Efficiency of hosting institution: 84%• Equity of selection: 78%• Overall judgement on the placement
experience: 96%
Tutors’ evaluation• Overall evaluation of trainees: 85%• Trainees’ technical skills: 72%• Improvement of technical skills during
placement: 85%• Trainees’ adjustment to new environment:
93%
Main resultsQuantitative results
• Gender: about 75 percent of women beneficiaries in each project
• Geographical distribution: over half of trainees live in economically less favoured regions
• Academic excellence: 40 out of 50 beneficiaries had top grade (equivalent to ECTS A)
• Career development:
other19%
Non reseacrh position in the field
11%
Research in the f ield7%
Other post-graduate training
11%
PhD abroad25% PhD in Italy
27%
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Unipharma-GraduatesFeedback from trainees and tutors
“Things here are going great, my tutor is very happy with me. I am pleased to let you know that I passed the selections for a PhD here at Babraham Institute, now I am waiting for an answer from Cambridge University for a grant (fingers crossed!!!). Thanks for your precious help.”
Trainee at Cambridge – Babraham Research Institute
Sarah’s tutor: "Sarah came out as one of the top candidates we interviewed at our recent Graduate Open Day".
Dear Luciano, on the whole Sonia had a very fruitful research stay here. I congratulate you for the thorough selection you made. I hope you will think at me for the next year, because I will have the opportunity to host students aiming at working in purely applied research. I am personally convinced of the excellence and sounding meaning of your programme. With kind regards, PhilippeInstitute of Environmental Research Aachen
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Unipharma-Graduates
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR:PROF. LUCIANO SASOSCHOOL OF PHARMACYSAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF [email protected]
Quality in Mobility award
Short listed among the 5 best mobility projects in Graz “Quality in Mobility Award” held in May 2006
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Unigraduate e Uniromatraining
Partnership with Rome’s state universities
Uniromatraining
• 5 projects of placement for students from 2003 to 2007 when LLP changed the target of Leonardo to graduates. Since then erasmus placement.
• 152 student beneficiaries from all faculties
Unigraduate
• 2 projects in 2007 and 2008• 57 beneficiaries among recent graduates from all faculties • New project in 2010 Jobs4graduates: 32 beneficiaries starting their mobility from February to
September
Selection and placement of beneficiaries
• Open call for applications, selection criteria based on: academic merit, language competences, previous study abroad experiences, motivation
• Database of European companies: placement is done matching the CV of individual trainees
Quantitative results
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Unigraduate e UniromatrainingPlacements by country
2
22
1 1 2 2
20 20
45
24
1 2
13
4 3
59
2 1 3
Austria
Belgio
Cipro
Danim
arca
Estonia
Finlandia
Francia
Germ
ania
Gran Bretagna
Irlanda
Lituania
Norvegia
Olanda
Portogallo
Rom
ania
Spagna
Svezia
Turchia
Ungheria
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Unigraduate e Uniromatraining
Qualitative results
81
83
75
79
Languagecompetences
Overall usefulness
Would you repeatit
Would yourecommend it to a
friend
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University-enterprise cooperation in LLP
• Work hard on the match of work programmes and students/graduates’ CVs
• Do not let potential trainees to “search” the market for placements completely by themselves
• Require detailed work programmes from enterprises to increase beneficiaries’ awareness of opportunities offered
• Sound evaluation of results obtained through:
1. students and tutors questionnaires2. aggregated results for dissemination3. aggregated data of applications received and career development
Lessons to be learned by Leonardo experience
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Erasmus Mundus Former External Cooperation Window (EMECW), now Erasmus Mundus Action 2
Launched in 2006, the programme is a cooperation and mobility scheme in the area of higher education.
The European Commission launched this initiative to foster cooperation between higher education institutions from outside the EU with EU universities.
Builds further on previous programmes: Erasmus, Tempus, EM, Alfa, Alban, Asia-Link, Edulink
It aims to boost exchange of students, researchers and academic staff and to support mobility and recognition of studies.
Promotion cooperation EU – third countries (“lots”)
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
•Erasmus Mundus University II, coordinated by VUB, under the Call 2007www.vub.ac.be/erasmusmundus/
• Egypt, Palestine, Israel, 287 mobility flows foreseen with over 5 mil € funding.• Sapienza’s results: outgoing students 4 to Egypt, 1 to Israel
ougoing staff 1 teaching staff to Palestineincoming students 1 exchange, 2 degree, 3 Phd,
1 post-docincoming staff 1 teaching staff from Palestine
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
• Russian Federation, coordinated by TU Dresden under 2008 callhttp://tu-dresden.de/internationales/erasmus_mundus/index_html/document_view?cl=en
• 210 scholarships for all levels of higher education starting in the year 2008- 2009. Mobility scheme:From RF to EU: 39 BA /47 MA / 35 PhD / 20 Post-Doc / 14 Teaching StaffFrom EU to RF: 30 BA / 8 MA / 10 PhD / 2 Post-Doc / 5 Teaching Staff
• Sapienza’s results: 5 outgoing students27 incoming students: 22 exchange master, 1 Phd, 1 post-doc1 incoming staff
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
• Basileus 1 and 2, coordinated by Gent Universitywww.basileus.ugent.be
• Mobility scheme with Western Balkan universities:
1st year 400 mobilites were foreseen, 345 were implemented:
Sapienza’s results: 6 outgoing students: 1 PhD, 5 master (2 BiH, 5 Serbia)4 outgoing teaching staff 32 incoming students: 6 PhD (3 degree), 26 master (10 degree)6 incoming teaching staff
2nd year 305 mobilities foreseen, 294 implemented up to now, 1 ongoing selection for 88 scholarships left
Sapienza’s results: 6 outgoing students: 2 post-doc, 4 master3 outgoing teaching staff 24 incoming students: 1 PhD, 20 ba/master (3 degree)6 incoming teaching staff
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
• Lisum, coordinated by Gent Universitywww.lisum.ugent.be
• Mobility scheme with Chinese universities:• 274 mobilities foreseen, 116 implemented up to now, 1 ongoing selection
• Sapienza’s results: 14 outgoing students: 1 PhD, 13 master 1 outgoing teaching staff 11 incoming students: 5 PhD (2 degree), 3 master (1 degree), 3 Ba1 incoming teaching staff
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
• Conclusions from three year experience:
• Call 2009: about 10 partnerships + 1 coordinated application• EMECW was a strategic tool to build international partnerships based on credibility of the
overall institution• Cooperation among different offices + with academic structures (“student placement”, outside
Erasmus, individual learning agreement for some student with different backgrounds)• Institutional innovation: management of funds, new procedures (ie for the payment of fees)• Positive side effects:
• test on bilateral agreements (some very strong cooperations emerged, ie Architecture Belgrade)
• Improvement of welcome services: contacts with diplomatic services, with local authorities (i.e. for residence permits) etc…
• Long-lasting cooperation with some academic structures which prove to be more open to internationalisation
• Enhanced international environment for Italian students (new modules taught in English)
• Academic recognition “exercise” with HEI outside the European Higher Education Area
• Support the offer of English taught courses
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
• Conclusions from three year experience:
• Call 2009: about 10 partnerships + 1 coordinated application• EMECW was a strategic tool to build international partnerships based on credibility of the
overall institution• Cooperation among different offices + with academic structures (“student placement”, outside
Erasmus, individual learning agreement for some student with different backgrounds)• Institutional innovation: management of funds, new procedures (ie for the payment of fees)• Positive side effects:
• test on bilateral agreements (some very strong cooperations emerged, ie Architecture Belgrade)
• Improvement of welcome services: contacts with diplomatic services, with local authorities (i.e. for residence permits) etc…
• Long-lasting cooperation with some academic structures which prove to be more open to internationalisation
• Enhanced international environment for Italian students (new modules taught in English)
• Academic recognition “exercise” with HEI outside the European Higher Education Area
• Support the offer of English taught courses
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Erasmus Mundus Sapienza’s experience
• English taught courses
Two-year master programmes (second cycle degree), taught in the Englishlanguage, are available:• Computer Engineering• Artificial Intelligence and Robotics• Finance and Development
Professional master programmes:• European and International Policies and Crisis Management
International PhDs• International Relativistic Astrophysics PhD (Erasmus Mundus)• European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies• European PhD on Social Representations and Communication• Cognitive Plasticity And Rehabilitation• School of PhD in Economics, PhD course in Computer Engineering
Modules taught in English at some faculties: i.e. Economics (International marketing, Microcredit and ethical finanace etc…)
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Joint degrees
The Italian law and joint programmes(509/99 and 270/2004):• Italian Universities may award degrees jointly with other Italian or foreign universities, on
the basis of specific agreements• The universities acts foresee the rules.. on the procedures for the awarding of joint
degrees.
National law on Doctorates (224/99):• The final Jury of Doctorates established through international agreements is set up
according to the internal rules agreed• The agreements may foresee specific procedures for awarding the degree (organisation
of the programme)• For the periods spent abroad the amount of the grant must be increased of at least 50%
Governement support• Internationalisation programmes from 1998 to 2007 (10M euros)• 2008 and 2009 Cooperlink programme, less funding available
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Sapienza’s experience on joint degrees
• Some figures (although not outstanding):
• International PhDs: 1 awarding a joint degree
14 awarding double/multiple degrees (8 Engineering)
• 1 LLP course (professional master in State management and humanitarian affairs
• 9 first cycle degrees: 8 faculty of Engineering- France + 1 faculty of Economics Argentina
• 19 second cycle degrees 12 Engineering – various universities in France + New York
PolithecnicArchitecture – Buenos AiresStatistics –Paris DauphinePhilosphy - JenaATOSIM : Erasmus Mundus master course (Physics w. ENS Lyon + Amsterdam)Economics – FINEC Saint PetersburgLaw – Paris Panthéon Assas (about to be enlarged to Humboldt + King’s College)Pedagogy - Moscow
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Sapienza’s experience on joint degrees
• Coordination programme for international doctoratesCoordinated by prof. Annamaria De Rosa (joint PhD)
Overall aim to support the internationalisation of doctoral courses by:• Integration of administrative/academic/research activities• Format for the internationalisationo of doctoral courses• Proposing amendments to internal regulation• Transversal training (interdisciplinary summer school)
• Guidelines for the internationalisation of degreesTo be jointly developed by the International office and Academic services
Overall aim to support the internationalisation of doctoral courses by:• Proposing amendments to internal regulation• Coordinating financial support• Approving guidelines for the negotiations of agreements• Internal administrative staff training
