📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Arbeitsgemeinschaft - World University Service
Country: Kosovo Funding amount: € 2.475.000,00 Project start: 01.06.2024 End: 31.05.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The program Sustainable Higher Education and Research in Kosovo (SHER) aims at contributing to a sustainable, evidence-based and needs-oriented Higher Education and Research sector in Kosovo that is in line with the principles of the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area.
Expected results
1: Ensure policy makers develop and enact a sustainable/legal framework for Higher Education which results in improved access to inclusive and equitable quality education.
2: Enable public universities to enhance governance practices, resulting in the delivery of inclusive, equitable and quality education that meets labor-market demands and advances the capability of universities to strengthen a targeted use and applicability of academic knowledge and to transfer technologies into the public sphere.
Target group / Beneficiaries
Direct beneficiaries of the programme are the main stakeholders in the sector of Higher Education. In total, there are around 200 direct beneficiaries and 100,000 indirect beneficiaries (including students and Higher Education Institution staff).
The target groups consist of the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), as the main national stakeholder responsible for the education and research sector, the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA), as the main Quality Assurance body for Higher Education in Kosovo, KAA Board members, the KAA appeals committee, the National Science Council, 9 public universities (with a total of over 70,000 students including from vulnerable and underrepresented groups) as well as selected Civil Society Organizations (such as the Kosovo Women’s Network and grantees from the Social Dimension (of Higher Education of the Bologna Process) scheme).
Activities
- Tailor-made support to MESTI for the development of policies, laws, regulations and strategies related to HE and research with focus on performance-based funding
- Tailor-made support to KAA in addressing the requirements for regaining full membership in ENQA and EQAR
- Tailor-made support to universities in the revision of statutes, regulations, and strategic documents
- Tailor-made support to universities for the implementation of a performance-based funding system, internal quality assurance and the promotion of the targeted use, applicability of academic knowledge and transfer of technologies into the public sphere, including specific support for UPCO
- Implementation of 2 Grants for the development of joint or double degrees
- Development and implementation of 2 tailor-made interventions in the field of a.) gender equality and b.) promoting HE for vulnerable groups (such as PWDs) based on results from 2 co-creation workshops
- Development and implementation of 10 Social Dimension Grants
- Tailor-made suppor
