UB is the coordinator, together with the Autonomous University of Madrid and the CIVIS European Civic University Alliance, of the European Diploma pilot project
The event is attended by senior officials from EU member states and the European Commission
The University of Bucharest is hosting on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, a public event to present the first results obtained within the Screening, Mapping, Analyzing, Recommending, Transferring and Transforming higher education international programs – SMARTT project, which aims to pretest the criteria for the design and development of the label of “European Diploma” (the European Diploma label represents a certificate of excellence attached to the qualification of students graduating from joint study programs carried out through the cooperation of several higher education institutions, based on a set of criteria co-created at the European level).
The conference will take place in the “Ioan Mihăilescu” Amphitheater of the Rectorate of the University of Bucharest (Șoseaua Panduri no. 90), starting at 9:30. The event is part of the European higher education calendar, as part of the strategic efforts coordinated by the European Commission and the member states.
The event will be attended by the Romanian Minister of Education, Ligia Deca, the general secretary for higher education of the Greek Ministry of Education, Odysseas-Ioannis Zoras, the vice-president of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education – ENQA), Cristina Ghițulică, president of the European Student Organization (ESU), Horia Onita, director of the Higher Education Unit within the General Directorate for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission, Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, as well as the policy officer of the European Commission responsible for the European diplomas project, Yann-Maël Bideau.
On behalf of the University of Bucharest, the event will be attended by prof. Marian Preda, PhD, prof. Sorin Costreie, PhD, prof. Romiță Iucu, PhD, prof. Lucian Ciolan, PhD, prof. Anca Nedelcu, PhD, lect. Iftimescu, PhD, but also other experts from the CIVIS team from the University of Bucharest.
Last but not least, the event will be attended in person and online by numerous representatives from the field of higher education, representatives of the ministries of education from the member countries of the European Union partnering in the project, as well as the national agencies for quality assurance in education and research from various EU member states, of European universities and academic communities, but also by numerous experts in the field of higher education in the European milieu.
Developed by the European Civic University Alliance CIVIS in partnership with the European University Alliances EUTOPIA, NEUROTECHEU and UNITA, alongside higher education institutions and European and national stakeholders, the SMARTT project was chosen by the European Commission as a pilot project for future European Diplomas. The University of Bucharest is, together with the Autonomous University of Madrid and the CIVIS European Alliance, the coordinator of the project.
Considering the significant experience in the design and implementation of joint and multiple study programs at transnational level, the higher education institutions involved in the SMARTT project aim to expand this experience and formulate, based on clear methodologies and detailed analyses, recommendations and proposals, both for the European Commission and for the Member States, with the aim of supporting the development of a European approach for the design and implementation of Common European Diplomas in the near future, in accordance with the European Strategy for Universities and the strategic objectives of the European University Alliances.
Moreover, the SMARTT project also aims to issue such diplomas by the first part of 2024 following a testing and piloting approach on a significant number of joint transnational study programs.
Thus, during the event, the results of the first stage of the SMARTT project will be presented and discussed, which aims at the methodological approach of the analysis of the criteria for a “European Diploma” label, but also the results of the pre-testing process of these criteria, under the coordination of a transnational team of experts in the field of higher education.
About CIVIS
CIVIS is a European University Alliance that brings together 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Bucharest (Romania), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), University of Glasgow (UK), Paris Lodron University Salzburg (Austria) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 European pilot universities, CIVIS brings together approximately half a million students and over 70,000 staff members, including 37,400 academics and researchers.
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