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Erasmus Mundus Information Day
20 January 2011
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ERASMUS MUNDUS
PREPARING YOUR APPLICATION
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ERASMUS MUNDUS
• Flagship Programme
• Key Words– High Quality– Excellence– Innovation– Integrated Mobility
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THE PROJECT
• Your idea or A partner’s?
• If a partner’s:– Are you confident that it fits with your goals?
• If your idea:– Who else has validated it?
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PARTNERS?• How many?• Do you know them?• Are you equally confident with all of them?• Do they all have relevant experience?• Do they all have high reputation – national and
international?• Do the partners really complement one another?• What role(s) will each partner have?• Which individuals will undertake the work?
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• Do your regulations allow award of joint or double degrees?
• Do your partners’ regulations allow award of joint or double degrees?
• What is the time table for the validation of new programmes?
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MANAGEMENT• Ensure that your university and your department are fully
on board
• Prepare a business plan early
• Everyone needs to understand the resource / financial implications
• Everyone needs to understand that high quality international joint programmes are complex, require considerable, intensive work and ongoing commitment
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MANAGEMENT• Early partnership agreement essential – recognition and
governance issues need to be addressed early
• Agree who will be the project ‘manager’ – establish a plan with milestones and deliverables
• Plan a series of meetings with partners leading up to the submission of the application
• Establish a standard agenda for meeting – insist on timely production of all papers – this means that drafting responsibilities must be clear
• Involve an experienced administrator from each institution all the time – they should help with drafting some sections
• Keep senior management well briefed
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• Are you sure:– That your proposal is innovative / unique?– That mobility will be integral and add value?
• Treat all parts of the application seriously – there are no routine throw away sections – which is why at initial drafting stage it can be helpful to share the work
• Remember that the assessors may not be from your discipline – so communicate your ideas
• If possible ask someone outside the consortium to read A late draft
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Joint Masters Courses
• A1 academic quality – course content (30%)
– Remember assessors first impressions are critical – this section must persuade them
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A1 –
• Needs analysis
• Added-value compared with existing masters
• Structure – content – added value of mobility
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Masters Courses
• Learning outcomes and employability
• Consortium composition and expertise of key staff
• Interaction with professional, socio-economic / scientific / cultural sectors – make early contact and be able to show that support is ‘real’
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A2 Course Integration (25%)
• Is the curriculum genuinely joint, integrated, fully recognised in all partners?
• Joint student application selection and admission
• Joint examination and assessment – use of ects – joint diploma supplement
• Explain student participation costs - fees
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A3 Course Management Visibility And Sustainability Measures (20%)
• Role of partners – cooperation mechanisms! – Governance
• Partner institutions’ financial contribution
• Financial management – development and sustainability
• Course promotion
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A4 Student Services And Facilities (15%)
• Information and student support• Student agreement – model • Services• Language policy• Student networking
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A5 Quality Assurance And Evaluation (10%)
• Internal evaluation
• External quality assurance
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programmes• Good starting points:
– Qaa code of practice – section 1 postgraduate research programmes
– Uk research councils – joint statement of the skills training requirements for research students
– Esrc postgraduate training and development guidelines 2009
Nb: doctoral candidates are expected to be employed
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B1 Academic And Research Quality (25%)
This is your chance to get the key messages to the assessors – win their attention and support
• Needs analysis• Added value compared with existing programmes – you
need to research and demonstrate• Programme originality, innovation, scientific quality• Training – transferable skills• Collaboration with the employment sector – future
careers• Outcomes – innovative, educational, scientific,
technological – skills and competences
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B2 Partnership Experience And Composition (25%)
• Relevance of consortium – expertise of key academic and research staff
• Complementarity and diversity of consortium members
• Track record in networking and cooperation• Role of professional / non-academic / economic/
scientific / cultural sector participants – must be real and demonstrable
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B3 European Integration And Functioning Of The Programme (20%)
• Structured – integrated organisation exploiting current good practice in doctoral / graduate / research schools or co-tutelle arrangements / recognition – use of ects?
• Relevance – organisation of mobility• Common standards for application / selection /
admission / review of doctoral candidates• Participation costs – fees!• Quality of joint supervision and monitoring• Degrees awarded
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B4 Provision For Emjd Candidates And Fellowship Holders (15%)
• Promotion strategy• Student support and services• Language policy• Doctoral ‘employment’ contracts• Career advice• Doctoral candidate agreement
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B5 Programme Management And Quality Assurance (15%)
• Organisation and cooperation within the consortium
• Development and sustainability plan• Complementary funding• Internal evaluation and external quality
assessment
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ERASMUS MUNDUS IS HIGHLY COMPETITIVE
ONLY APPLICATIONS WHICH ADDRESS ALL FACETS OF THE APPLICATION EFFECTIVELY WILL HAVE A CHANCE OF SUCCESS