The Erasmus Mundus – External Cooperation Windows (EMECWs) offer a unique higher education institutional cooperation frame and training opportunities relevant to the skilled manpower needs of the targeted regions and the EU. Thus, EMECW students and academic staff benefit from the opportunity to study, teach and research in Europe and abroad while the participating universities raise their capacities, build pole of expertise and gain international visibility. Egypt was granted the Project “Flow-by-Flow EU-Egypt Bridge Building” on August 2009 through the Erasmus Mundus – External Cooperation Window Program.
The Scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral students and staff are financed by the European Commission. The Scholarship will cover travel, insurance, possible tuition, living expenses and housing.
Call for applications: 11-November-2009 applications will close: 06-January-2010
The project aims at enhancing the academic cooperation between European and Egyptian universities by bringing together students, staff as well as young and senior researchers involved in the same disciplines or forming multidisciplinary teams to cover research domains identified by the Egyptian Universities as “priorities”. The organisation of the mobility’s activities supported by the project will be a step toward the creation of more co-diplomas and co-thesis with stronger exchanges between PhD students from both EU and Egyptian sides, especially around the disciplines and themes which of interest for Egyptian and European universities.
Another very important objective of this project concerns the sharing of best practices between the participants’ staff, in the field of “university governance” and in the implementation of the Bologna process. This project has planned some mobility activities for training the academic and administrative staff toward better “University governance”. The project will be therefore organized and managed to have structuring effects within Higher Education institutions and to build sustainable synergies. This action will have long term impact upon the harmonization of Higher Education systems in Egypt and EU thus decreasing the gap existing between the institutions of both sides and contributing to the recognition of the degrees delivered in Egyptian HE institutions at the international level. The FFEEBB project can be viewed as a step towards the creation of a “Euro-Mediterranean higher Education area” aiming, along the lines of the Barcelona Declaration, at bringing stronger multiple cooperation between European Universities and Universities from Egypt.
