[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfP: Southeast European Student Initiatives

[Agron Alibali]

  Florian Bieber <fbieber at yahoo.com> wrote: From Florian Bieber Wed Apr 10 10:40:22 2002
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From: Florian Bieber 
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:40:22 +0200
Subject: [balkans] CfP: Southeast European Student Initiatives

Open Society Institute (OSI)
Higher Education Support Program (HESP)
Southeast European Student Initiatives  (SESI) 2002

The International Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of the Open
Society Institute (OSI) invites concept papers for cross-border student
initiatives from and within the following Southeast European academic
communities: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

The aim of the Southeast European Student Initiatives  (SESI) is to address
systemic changes in higher education by involving students in the
democratization, modernization, and innovation of the educational process
and by enhancing cross-border co-operation of students in the Southeast
European region.

SESI 2002 invites students to submit CONCEPT PAPERS on the following issues:


Democratization, modernization, and innovation of the higher education
process

1. Students' participation in governance of higher education institutions
(student councils and other student governing structures)
2. Students' evaluation of teaching and/or curriculum in humanities and
social sciences (ideas should lead towards innovation of  teaching and/or
curriculum, interdisciplinary initiatives and programs, towards flexible and
market-oriented programs of life-long education, and alike)
3. Ideas on prevention and elimination of corruption in Southeast European
higher education, and protection of students' rights

Access to higher education in Southeast Europe

1. Ideas for improvement of equal access to higher education with a special
focus on access to higher education of minority groups (Roma, other
minorities, disabled etc.)
2. Ideas related to improvement of financing of higher education
(introduction of tuition, voucher system, student loans, etc.)


The concept ideas must meet the following requirements:
* be initiated, and eventually implemented, primarily by undergraduate
students;
* involve cross-border cooperation of undergraduate students;
* involve an educational component (such as workshops, lecture series,
seminars, summer schools, round tables, open forums, discussion groups
etc.);
* include a discussion of projected outputs
* be from the following academic communities of Southeast Europe: Albania,
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova,
Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
      
Preference will be given to ideas:
* with a potential to make an impact in several or all countries of
Southeast Europe,
* focusing on or involving minorities,
* initiated within or focusing on existing educational structures,
* focusing on or initiated from outside the capital cities.

Applications must include:
* Completed Information Sheet (available at the web-site: www.osi.hu/hesp)
* A Concept Paper in English (description of the project idea, up to 1000
words) including the general idea of the future project proposal, a brief
description of planned activities, description of the managing structure
envisaged, curriculum vitae of project leaders, information on possible
partnerships and cooperation, and expected outcomes of the project.

Selection procedure:
An International Expert Committee will do the selection in two stages. In
the first stage the Committee will select the most promising concept papers
(ideas) and invite selected applicants to develop full project proposals.
Successful candidates from the first stage will have the opportunity to work
on developing their project proposals, based on the selected concept papers,
with the help of SESI experts. The results of the first stage of selection
will be announced in late July 2002. Selected applicants will be invited to
submit full project proposals by the end of September 2002, for the second
stage of selection. Final results on selected project proposals will be
announced in fall 2002. Financial support will be provided only for projects
selected in the final competition.

Deadline for submitting concept papers is May 15, 2002.

Concept papers should be submitted to:
Open Society Institute -HESP, Nádor utca 11. ,1051 Budapest, HUNGARY
Senior Program Manager Ms. Zorana Gajic
Telephone: (36-1) 327 31 47; Fax: (36-1) 327 38 64; e-mail: zorana at osi.hu
HESP WebSite: http://www.osi.hu/hesp


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