EMAP 2 (1.10.2010 - 31.8.2012)
Project overview
The "EMAP 2 - Erasmus Mundus Active Participation, Vol. 2" project aims to enhance and facilitate the participation of higher education institutions (HEIs) from less represented countries and their partners in the Erasmus Mundus Action 1 by improving the quality of their applications for Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes. The project also intends to contribute to the capacity building and networking of participating Erasmus Mundus National Structures in order to support their daily tasks, i.e. providing general information on the programme, advice to applicants, and cooperation and liaison activities.
The EMAP 2 will make use of the training methodologies developed under the EMAP project and optimize it further. In comparison with its predecessor, the EMAP 2 will newly include activities regarding the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates, pay more attention to active counselling and guidance towards HEIs, and advance the dissemination activities.
The main beneficiaries of the project will be the representatives of HEIs as potential Erasmus Mundus Action 1 applicants coming especially from the less represented European countries together with their partner HEIs. The project also targets all Erasmus Mundus National Structures represented in the partnership and experienced Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes project representatives.
Project activities
In order to achieve the EMAP 2 aims the partners will:
1/ Identify and select consortia of HEIs as potential applicants for new Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes, and organise three training seminars for future Erasmus Mundus Master Courses and one for future Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates in order to help them to prepare good quality applications.
2/Organise training sessions for participating Erasmus Mundus National Structures as building capacity events focused on issues of common interest and support their networking.
Project outcomes
Four training seminars for future Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMC) and Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJD) together with training sessions for Erasmus Mundus National Structures (EM NS) will be organised during the two years of the project. These events and related activities will lead to the following results:
1/ When identifying and selecting the participants for the training seminars, the EM NS will indirectly contribute to the promotion of the Erasmus Mundus programme and raise awareness about its possibilities;
2/ 33 future EMMC consortia and 15 future EMJD consortia identified by less represented countries will be invited to the training seminars, each consortium consisting of 3 HEIs representatives. This will ensure that 144 HEIs representatives coming from various countries will become familiar with the Erasmus Mundus programme and be trained in order to acquire know-how and skills to submit a good quality EMMC / EMJD applications without technical mistakes. This will make their applications more competitive during the selection process;
3/ EM NS from 17 countries will be trained in order to enhance their professional preparation and thus providing better quality advice to Erasmus Mundus applicants;
4/ Close interaction among EM NS and HEIs during the training seminars will help to establish liaisons and support their networking. The applicants will know who to consult and ask for help when preparing their applications;
5/ The EMAP 2 will valorise former Erasmus Mundus programme results thanks to the involvement of existing EMMC and EMJD. 12 representatives of successful EMMC and EMJD will prepare presentations for the training seminars and share their experience with various aspects of implementing the joint programmes;
6/ Reports, good practices, training and guidance material from the EMAP 2 events will be prepared in English and shared with broader audience via the project website and existing national communication channels of the project partners. This will make the project products available for other partners of the trained consortia, further HEIs and also EM NS that do not participate in the project;
7/ Each of the EM NS sending consortia to training seminars will have to analyse the results of the relevant Erasmus Mundus Call for Proposals and examine the statistics and success rate of the applications submitted by the EMAP 2 training seminars´ participants. These analyses will be shared among all project partners.
8/ Participants from various countries and institutions will meet during the EMAP 2 events which will lead to many indirect and intangible results, such as new contacts for cooperation under different frameworks, intercultural dialogue, informal links etc.
