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TEMPUS - PHARE Mobility Joint European Project: M-JEP-11341-96TEMPUS-PHARE is a Trans-European Cooperation Scheme for Higher Education between Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. TEMPUS was adopted by the Council of Ministry of the European Community on 7th May 1990 for the period 1990 to 1994 and extended on 29th April 1993 from 1994 to 1998 (TEMPUS II). The body responsable for the management of the TEMPUS programme is the Directorate General DG XXII - Education, Training and Youth. The European Training Foundation (ETF) Tempus Department at Torino (I) assists DG XXII in the administration of the programme. Click here to read about the Contractor, Coordinator and TECHWARE.
The large variety of problems in the water industry and in the protection of the water environment has imposed on the Technical Universities the need to include them in the curricula of several facilities and departments. These problems bacame more and more complex along the industrial development of Romania, followed by a dramatic increase of the level of pollution of waters. Trying to cope with the situation, Faculties of Hydrotechnics were established at several universities, which focused on structural engineering. The current practice has shown that an urgent need was the formation of specialists in environmental protection relatde to the water industry and to the atmosphere, but this was not fully possible before 1989.
The principals features of this project are the following :
- access and participation of Romanian and EU students to international scientific and educational values, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
- practical placements of students in the partner enterprises, in view of involving them in problems of the real free-market economy.
- participation of non-academic enterprises in an university-partnership enterprise partnership in order to train their own staff.
The objectives of this project is to create an European network of universities, enterprises and other non-profit organisations to support mobility at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In the project five major Romanian Universites and several enterprises are linked to leading European ones. The Faculties and Departments involved in water sciences and/or in environmental engineering in the fields of water and atmospheric protection have very strong programmes. The mobility of the students represents the main scope of the project and it is, in our belief, of utmost importance by its future benefits.
At the undergraduate level the project provides the following types of mobilities for the Romanian students :The short staff vists are equally important and will be used for the planning, co-ordination of the curricula and monitoring of the activities and teaching-traning assignments as well as for retraining and updating. The University Enterprise partnership is especially important here.
- practical placements (S2) - level of 5 months.
- study periods (S1) of 5 months for BSc students and MSc students.
- study periods (S1) of 5 months, devoted to courses and research activities at the partner university, based on pre-established topics related to the subject of the thesis.
- study periods (S1) of 10 months devoted mostly to research activities and/or the completion of the PHD thesis.
The activities needed to be performed to acheive the objectives of the project are the following:
- Creation of a network for the organisation of the mobility.
- Student mobility at undergraduate level, RO-EU and EU-RO flows.
- Student mobility at graduate level, RO-EU and EU-RO flows.
- Development of teaching material.
A list of universities can be found here, along with a list of non-profit associations and a list of enterprises that are involved in the Mobility Joint European Project M-JEP-11341-96.
You can contact the persons at the coordination institutions for further information or any relating questions you may wish to propose. Also listed are partners involved with M-JEP-11341-96.
