Nedal Jayousi/Ph.D National Erasmus+ Office

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26-30 JUNE, 2018

P^ALESTINIAN G^ERMAN S^CIENCE B^RIDGE

Nedal Jayousi/Ph.D

National Erasmus+ Office

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Palestine

Synopsis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ra9vt ZrtIk

Population: The total population in Palestine is estimated 5.5 m

Area: Total area of Palestinian Governorates is 6,020 Km², before occupation Palestine area was 26,323 Km²

LANGUAGE: Arabic, English

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Erasmus+

 Erasmus+, represented by the National Erasmus+ office in Palestine; is the European Union (EU) programme which supports projects,

partnerships, events and mobility in the areas of education, training, youth and sport with a total budget of 16.5 billion EUR.

 The programme has been developed by the EU’s European Commission in Brussels and is implemented by the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA) in Brussels and the National Agencies (NAs) located in each of the 33 Programme Countries.

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National Erasmus Office in Palestine managed to:

 Increase the network and the number of interested audience in Erasmus+ by:

• Paying more field visits.

• Conducting a number of promotion workshop.

 Disseminates and coordinates with EU delegation in Palestine.

 Assists in promotion of Erasmus+ programmes.

 Reports about the Higher Education System-Palestine.

 Takes part in analysis and assessment of the evaluation of the proposals received through Erasmus+ call.

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National Erasmus Office in Palestine managed to:

 Contributing to HE policies through different interventions carried by HEREs’ members as: NQF, Diploma Supplement, HE law, Quality

assurance …etc.

 NEO has developed Palestine Country Fiche which has a detailed report on the Higher Education System in Palestine and includes recent HE statistics and policies.

 Link: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea- site/files/countryfiches_palestine_2017.pdf

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Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs)

• The Erasmus+ Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs) was established in the framework of the Tempus programme and continues to be supported through Erasmus+.

• These experts, appointed by the Education, Audiovisual, and Cultural Executive Agency (EACEA) at the European Commission in Brussels,

constitute a pool of expertise to promote and enhance the modernization of higher education.

• They participate in the development of policies and reforms in their countries and contribute to the training of local stakeholders.

• Their activities consist, for example, in organizing and participating in seminars, writing articles and reports, or providing advice to individual institutions and policy makers

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NEO

Erasmus+ Actions

International Credit Mobility

Capacity building in Higher

Education Jean Monnet

Higher Education Reform Experts

(HERE)

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Erasmus+

Erasmus+ Programme

ICM: a limited period of study or traineeship abroad for the purpose of gaining credits.

Jean Monnet

Jean Monnet activities provide support and funding to academic

institutions to

promote excellence in European integration studies in higher education. This action also aims to foster dialogue between the academic world and policymakers in order to enhance EU

policies for higher d ti J

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Erasmus+

Jean Monnet

Key Action 3:

Support for Policy Reform

Key Action 2:

Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of

good practices Key Action 1:

Learning Mobility of Individuals

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 Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals

 Key Action 1 supports mobility in the education, training and youth sectors and aims to bring long lasting benefits to the participants and the organisations involved (At least 63% of total budget).

 For over 30 years, students and staff have moved between European universities in the Erasmus programme.

 Since 2015, Erasmus+ has also allowed short-term mobility,

International Credit Mobility (ICM) to Europe from other parts of the world for students, researchers, and staff. This two-way mobility

allows students to study in a foreign university for 3-12 months and obtain credits which are then recognised at the sending institution as part of their degree. Programme Country institutions make up bilateral partnerships with universities from South Mediterranean countries and apply on behalf of their partners.

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• International Credit Mobility (ICM)- Palestine

2015 2016 2017

Proposals received involving

Palestine 58 56 75

Projects selected involving

Palestine 42 44 49

Students and staff moving to

Europe 270 304 377

Students and staff moving to

Palestine 51 115 172

Percentage of regional budget 5.01 5.19 6.41

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Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

 Key Action 2 make it possible for organisations from different participating countries to work together, to develop, share and transfer best practices and innovative approaches in the fields of education, training and youth (At least 28% of total budget).

 Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education action (CBHE) projects, which lasts from two to three years, are aimed at

modernising and reforming higher education institutions, developing new curricula, improving governance, and building relationships between higher education institutions and enterprises.

 They can also tackle policy topics and issues, preparing the ground for higher education reform, in cooperation with national authorities. Around 21% of the annual global budget for CBHE projects is earmarked for South Mediterranean countries.

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CBHE status: NEO Palestine is currently managing 39 projects

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Palestine CBHE Projects

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Key Action 3: Support for Policy Reform

 This Key Action covers any type of activity aimed at supporting and facilitating the modernisation of education and training systems.

Under Key Action 3, the Erasmus+ programme will fund strategic

activities supporting policy reform across the EU in education, training and youth (At least 4.2% of total budget).

 Each year Palestine participates in the annual Policy Dialogue

conference which targeting Senior Educational Policy makers from more than 45 countries. The 4^th conference will be held on July 9^th 2018.

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Jean Monnet activities

 Jean Monnet activities provide support and funding to academic institutions to promote excellence in European integration studies in higher education. This action also aims to foster dialogue between the academic world and policymakers in order to enhance EU policies for higher education. Jean Monnet activities cover the field of higher education only (At least around 4%).

 Under the results of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Activities 2015, Palestine was the only country in the Southern Mediterranean region who has won a Jean Monnet project entitled: “ EU Studies: Building the Foundation.

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Innovation and research CBHE Projects

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Project Title and Reference

Budget Aim Partners

Fostering

Entrepreneurship in Science,

Technology, Engineering and Math

989,000 This project develop a model that will integrate the STEM academic programmes at partner country universities with market oriented skills development training and practical on-the-job internships in start-ups. Such a comprehensive model is poised to shrink the gap between education and industry and ensure a smoother flow of knowledge and business ideas from university students.

Start-ups that will come out of this project will need financial support and we will work with them on all aspects of financial requirements to enable them to increase their chances in obtaining support from investors, banks and other financial support organizations.

• ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF GAZA,

• HIGHER COUNCIL FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE,

• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY,

• PALESTINE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY - KADOORIE

• THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE BIR ZEIT UNIVERSITY

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Project Title

and Reference Budget Aim Partners

e-Academy to support Smart Cities Operations in Palestine

962,861 The objectives of this project are:

I. Developing & Delivering Academic courses to enhance knowledge & skills of university students

II. Developing & Delivering tutorials to fresh graduates, private & public sector

employees in order to help bridge the gap between academia and industry

III. Delivering the courses and tutorials via e- learning to guarantee flexible & wider

delivery

IV. Increase cooperation between academia

& industry.

V. To promote entrepreneurship and

encourage students and trainees to be job creators

VI. Sustain lifelong learning by establishing

• BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY

• AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY

• ISLAMIC

UNIVERSITY OF GAZA

• MINISTRY OF

TELECOMMUNICATI ONS &

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• RAMALLAH MUNICIPALITY

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Project Title

Virtual Reality as an innovative and

immersive learning tools for HEIs in Palestine

608,951 To introduce the Virtual/Mixed- Reality Concept in the Topography and Forensics courses as an innovative approach to teach the student the different

challenging technical concepts related to principle of navigation, terrain's

topography, tracing and reading different maps describing the contours, interpret different keys when reading topographic maps, how to use compass in navigation , Extracting DNA from crime-scene

evidences to perform PCR testing as an Avant-guard training before using real expensive kits and samples in the future.

• AL-ISTIQLAL UNIVERSITY

• AL-QUDS OPEN UNIVERSITY,

• ARAB AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

• PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

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Project Title

and Reference Budget Aim Partners

Research Output Management through Open Access

Institutional Repositories in Palestinian Higher Education

1,117,516.00 The Project aims over the course of three years to build capacity on research output management in four leading PS HEIs by establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories..

This Project aims to improve not only the visibility and the management of scientific research, but also to support the advocacy in support of open access to research outputs and to foster scholarly communication and coordination between PS HEIs.

• Islamic University of Gaza,

• Al-Quds Open University

• Palestine Technical University –

Kadoorie

• Birzeit University

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Project Title

574131-EPP-1-2016-1- PS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Boosting Innovation in Curricula Development of IT Programs in

Palestine

822,433.33 The project will contribute in developing of networked and specialized centers of

competences for technology enhanced

learning that help IT and non-IT graduates to improve them in innovative and creative thinking. The project belongs to "Developing the Higher Education sector within society"

which include the following National Priorities as defined by the Palestinian Minister of Education and Higher Education in PS:

•Development of partnerships with enterprises.

•Knowledge triangle: education-innovation- research.

•Development of lifelong learning in society at large.

• University College of Applied Sciences

• Alaqsa University

• Al Azhar University Gaza

• Gaza University

• Islamic University of Gaza

• The Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies (PITA)

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Project Title

561776-EPP-1-2015-1- PS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Development of Health Informatics integrated curricula in Computing and

Health-oriented undergraduate degrees

989 316,00 € The specific objectives of the Project are:

1-To implement an innovative undergraduate health informatics pathways within the undergraduate health and IT programmes in partner country universities.

2- To develop capacities in and promote the adoption of the bologna processes.

3- To improve the level of competencies and skills of staff in partner country universities by (i) training visits for staff to EU partners to develop health-

informatics expertise in curriculum development and innovative learning (ii) providing research collaboration opportunities with EU staff through joint- supervision of students' projects.

• Hebron University

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Project Title

-JP Master in Health

Informatics 976 987,80 € •To develop training modules about health informatics; with emphasis on medical records management, health analytics, and data processing.

•To train and expose staff members of partner universities on modern teaching and research practices in the health informatics domain.

•To establish an up-to-date health informatics teaching lab.

•To develop platform as a repository of Open Educational Resources (OER) on health informatics educational and training material as well as best practices.

•To Strengthen and establish academic and research networks

•To develop cooperation models to

integrate academia and health profession.

• AL-Quds University

• Dimensions Consulting

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Palestinian HEIs cooperation with the German HEIs

in the framework of CBHE

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Palestinian HEIs cooperation with the German HEIs in the framework of CBHE.

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Project Title Palestinian Institution German Institution

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Science, Technology,

Engineering and Math

• Higher Council for Innovation and Excellence

• Palestine Polytechnic University

• Palestine Technical University - KADOORIE

UNIVERSITAET SIEGEN/

Grantholder

Boosting Innovation in

Curricula Development of IT Programs in Palestine

• University College of Applied Sciences

• Alaqsa University

• Al Azhar University Gaza

• Gaza University

• The Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies (PITA)

Hochschule Für Technik Wirtschaft Und Kultur Leipzig

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Palestinian HEIs cooperation with the German HEIs in the framework of CBHE.

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Curriculum and Skill Development in Vision Rehabilitation

• An-Najah National University

• Bethlehem University

• Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation

University of Hamburg

Middle Eastern Partnership in Sustainable Engineering

• Palestinian Federation of Industries

Technical University of Berlin

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Palestinian HEIs cooperation with the German HEIs in the framework of CBHE. (ﻲﻟﺎﻌﻟا مﯾﻠﻌﺗﻠﻟ ) ﻲﺑوروﻻا– ﻲﻧﯾطﺳﻠﻔﻟا نوﺎﻌﺗﻟا ﺔﺛﻌﺑ

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Serious Games: Pathway within the

undergraduate IT programs • Birzeit University

• Al-Quds University

RWTH Aachen University

Strengthening University-Enterprise linkages in Palestine

• Islamic University of Gaza,

• University College of Applied Sciences,

• Palestine Polytechnic University,

• Palestinian Chamber of Commerce

• Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education,

• Nablus Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Leipzig University of Applied Sciences

Joint Master in Software Engineering

• Birzeit University, PS

• Palestine Polytechnic University, PS

• Jerusalem District Electricity Company, PS

• Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie

• Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies

• UNIVERSITY OF KOBLENZ-LANDAU

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Useful Links- NEO Palestine

• 1. TV information session:

• http://www.erasmusplus.ps/page-680-.html

• 2. Erasmus+ 30th anniversary:

https://www.facebook.com/ErasmusPlusPalestine/videos/1946868708886223/

• 3. Birzeit University –ICM:

• https://www.facebook.com/ErasmusPlusPalestine/insights/?section=navPosts

• 4. PTUK ( Khadori) –ICM:

• https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/d_elayyan%40yahoo.com/15e996a 52e825235?projector=1

• 5. Special Episode on Erasmus+- Palestine TV

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewex56Pc69Y

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Useful Links

• Erasmus+ programme Guide

• http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmus-plus- programme-guide_en.pdf

• CBHE

• http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/actions/key-action-2-cooperation-for- innovation-and-exchange-good-practices/capacity-0_en

• ICM Guidelines

• https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=55b397f6c5&view=att&th=1535d39782 6101b6&attid=0.1&disp=safe&zw

• For more useful links

• www.erasmusplus.ps

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Universities Websites

• http://bethlehem.edu/

• http://www.birzeit.edu/ar/

• https://www.najah.edu/

• http://www.alquds.edu/

• http://www.hebron.edu/

• http://www.aauj.edu/

• http://ptuk.edu.ps/

• http://www.qou.edu/

• http://www.ppu.edu/

• http://www.pass.ps

• http://www.alazhar.edu.ps

• http://www.iugaza.edu.ps

• http://www.ucas.edu.ps

• http://www.alaqsa.edu.ps

• http://www.up.edu.ps

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Nedal Jayousi/Ph.D National Erasmus+ Office