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«Eurofaculty as a human development model for cross-border cooperation»
PSKOV, 2015
EUROFACULTY - TOWARDS A MODERN UNIVERSITY
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State of the Region Report. (2014) The Top of Europe – Emerging from the Crisis, Adapting to a New Normal.
“ The Region remains the ‘Top of Europe’ and registers both prosperity growth and internal catch-up rates that outperform the rest of the EU.•It is difficult to see where powerful new growth drivers should come from: labor mobilization will be hard to increase significantly, and labor productivity rates, too, are unlikely to pick up quickly.•Despite the Region’s impressive overall competitiveness, there are issues to address at the national and regional levels to further enhance competitiveness•The continued shift towards a knowledge driven economy will remain another key trend. The returns to skills will increase further. And the changes in the innovation processes itself will require that firms, academic institutions, and innovation policies adjust.•The Region continues to benefit from an exceptionally strong network of projects and institutions that are the envy of macro-regional efforts elsewhere in Europe”.
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Total BSR figures• 57,6 million people • 43% of them live in the Nordics, 12%
in the Baltics, remaining 45% in the parts of Germany, Poland, and Russia bordering the Baltic Sea.
Fish +Energy equipment +
Forestry –Biofarmacy -
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Economic Growth in the Baltic Sea Region
GDP share by selected regional areas:
Nordic countries – 62%Northern Germany – 14%Northwestern Russia – 12%The Baltics – 7%Northern Poland – 5%
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Unemployment rates
«Total employment in the Region is at 27.7 million employees, a slight decrease compared to last year and about 2%, or 600,000 below the peak reached in 2008. However, the situation is more difficult for young people under 25 years.»
Effective international project in Higher education
• Global citizens
• National and International elite – managers and innovators
• National and international workforce
Regional cooperation; additional focuses
• “Together for… or together against..”
• Concrete areas and tasks
• More transparency in partnerships (who is who)
• “Club” limitations: membership and regulations
A bit of philosophy, not about results..
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Skills development + cross-cultural diversity = human capital development
Investments into sharing values – creation of comfortable common space – effective economy and business – support and improvement of living standards human capital development
Scale of partnership?Project participants possibilities?
Financial resources?
“Regional roots”Long-term project
Hundreds young , well educated people
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Eurofaculty – just educational cooperation or practical tool…for what?
Politics and foreign affairs authorities
behind Academic exchangesBachelor and master programs
Economics. Regional studies, Law, business administration
Labor market monitoring
Regional economic developmentSocial stability and human
capital development Soft power
Negotiation area
Institutional developmentRegional (national/local) economic development
Human capital development
through
tasks
evaluation
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Efficiency and Effectiveness of educational projects for…• transnational business
• cross-border cooperation• resourses’ concentration and
distribution,• networking and collaboration
• Professional qualifications and competences
• Soft skills• R&D, innovations• Youth and academic
cooperation
2007 – p.t. International competitiveness
National Universities - 2National Research Universities - 29Federal Universities – 10_____________________________TOP 5|100 – 14 +
2015 – 2020 National \ Regional competitiveness: UniversityMerging
Regional University (“Flagship” university)Up to 15 in 2016, up to 100 till 2020
Current trends in RF Higher Education
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Different aims, responsibilities and duties, financial support, indicators of effectiveness
New generation of Educational StandardsDevelopment of Master and PhD programs; Master
Programs’ Networks Internal mobilityOpen education
Total full-time students 10 000Total annual revenue 2bln rub
Ratio of master’s and PhD students 20%
Papers per 100 faculty members 15 (WoS)
20 (Scopus)
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Conclusion• «Economically, there are signs that the Region is entering a ‘new normal’ of
permanently lower growth rates…while the Region’s long-term prospects continue to benefit from very solid underlying competitiveness fundamentals»
Eurofaculty as a model of cross-border cooperation for regional stability, development and competitiveness:
Labor market monitoring: gaps, needs, requirementsShort-time professional programs: cross sector, cross border competences
and qualificationsR&D, Innovations for targeted tasks: networking in infrastructure,
researchers and postdocs’ exchanges, joint research groupsReal practice: involvement of young scientists and managers into existing
national and regional projects
Next stage or next project (s)?
Thank you for long-term and effective cooperation!!
Dr. Irina ArzhanovaNTF Executive Director