Tempus Student Network Project proposal

About the call

The Second Call for Proposals (EAC/01/2009) under Tempus IV invites the submission of cooperative projects under two actions types, Joint Projects and Structural Measures, from partnerships comprised of higher education institutions, enterprises, ministries, NGOs, associations etc., from the EU and the Partner Countries. The indicative total budget for this Call amounts to approximately € 53 million in total, and the individual projects grants from €0.5 to €1.5 million.

About Tempus

The Commission considers higher education as an important priority for its co-operation activities with the neighbouring countries and the countries within its wider vicinity. The Tempus programme, which is the longest-standing EU programme in this sector and which has a strong focus on institutional co-operation, is being continued for a new phase from 2007 to
2013. Since its inception in 1990, university cooperation under the Tempus programme has contributed successfully to institution building in higher education in the partner countries and to sustainable university partnerships as well as to enhancing mutual understanding between academic worlds of the European Union and the partner countries.

The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to an area of cooperation in the field of higher education involving the European Union and partner countries in the surrounding geographic area. In particular, the programme will help promote voluntary convergence with EU developments in the field of higher education deriving from the Lisbon agenda and the Bologna process.

About the Project Proposal

The project is called 'Tempus Student Network'.

The project in general will promote, support, reinforse and ensure student involvement in the university managment and higher education reform processes in the participating countries as well as further dissemination of best practice in the regions and in the EU-member countries involved.
Aim of the project:
- To make students important stakeholders and not only viewers in the process of modernization of higher education system of their respective countries;
- To create a link between the labor market, HEI’s and students;
- To create a space for young people to realize their ideas and projects;
- To create a space for young people from Tempus countries to have better access to the information on possible educational programmes.

Youth Agora's part

Youth Agora will design and launch an online platform, the Tempus Information Platform (Codename: Galaxy) and considers hereby 3 key-elements, given the following codenames: Satellite, Supernova and Identity.

As technical project coordinator Youth Agora will be in charge of the technical development of the Tempus Platform. Youth Agora will be in charge of all the ICT aspects of the entire project. In particular, Youth Agora will support with great care the students, tempus experts and Institutions to join Tempus Platform. Furthermore, Youth Agora will also provide the training sessions during several meetings. In the final phase Youth Agora will ensure the sustainability of the Tempus platform and will provide a report with recommendations regarding the future exploitation of the platform. Youth Agora also considers it as part of its mission to continue to give support and training to other volunteer webmasters for future extensions and development of the platform.

The partners

Youth Agora
The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
University of Antwerpen
Spanish National Distance Education (UNED)
Mainstreaming Agenda Association
Cairo University
Ain Shams University
University of Zagreb
University of Rijeka
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Astrakhan State University