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Luciano Saso, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy "Studying and Training Under The Lifelong Learning Programme: Positive Effects of The Bologna Process"
Luciano Saso, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy "Studying and Training Under The Lifelong Learning Programme: Positive Effects of The Bologna Process"
Luciano Saso, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy "Studying and Training Under The Lifelong Learning Programme: Positive Effects of The Bologna Process"
Luciano Saso
Rector’s Delegate for International Mobility
LLP/Erasmus Institutional Coordinator
luciano.saso@uniroma1.it
www.uniroma1.it
about 150000 Students
about 5000 Teaching Staff
About 5000 Administrative Staff
Bologna Process
To create the European higher education
area by making academic degree standards
and quality assurance standards more
comparable and compatible throughout
Europe under the Lisbon Recognition
Convention.
BWSE 2009
Mobility as a tool and a goal for the
Bologna Process
Mobility can also be a tool for the proper implementation of the
Bologna Process, because it engages with every policy area of
it:
•qualifications frameworks
•ECTS and learning outcomes
•recognition practices
•quality assurance mechanisms
•internationalisation
•European dimension
•flexible and student-centred curricula
•significant social support
Special Attention to Mobility, Employability
and Quality in all Major Bologna Process
Documents
Sorbonne declaration (1998):
the creation of the European area of higher education
as a key way to promote citizens' mobility and
employability.
Bologna (1999)
Adoption of a system of easily readable and
comparable degrees, also through the
implementation of the Diploma Supplement, in order
to promote European citizens employability and
the international competitiveness of the European
higher education system
COMPARABLE DEGREES
INCREASING RECOGNITION OF STUDY AND
TRAINING PERIODS ABROAD
DOUBLE, MULTIPLE AND JOINT DEGREES
INCREASED MOBILITY
REDUCED DROP OUT
REDUCED COMPLETION RATES
NO TITLE RECOGNITION BEFORE BOLOGNA:
“A DENSE JUNGLE OF DEGREES”
A successful one!
Make Bologna
TUITION FEES
History!
NUMERUS CLAUSUS Celebrating
SEMESTERS
Etc.
Bologna? We
don't think so.
Other reasons
INFLEXIBLE CURRICULA
EMPLOYABILITY OF BACHELOR’s DEGREE
FINANCIAL ISSUES
SOCIAL ISSUES (Students from lower socio-economic
background, with jobs, with children, with disabilities, etc.)
BARRIERS (LANGUAGE, etc.)
INCOMPLETE RECOGNITION OF CREDITS
CONVERSION OF GRADES
3° CYCLE (mobility, status, employability, etc.)
Social dimension
(BWSE 2009)
Let’s talk to the Students about the
Bologna process!
http://unicaroma2010.it
But now:
No high European mobility (20% by 2020!)
without Bologna
European Mobility Programmes
SOCRATES/ERASMUS (1987-2007)
LLP/ERASMUS (2007-….)
ERASMUS PLACEMENT (2007-….)
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1995-….)
ERASMUS MUNDUS (2004-….)
MARIE CURIE (1995-….)
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
Mobility
Quality
Employability EMPLOYERS
ERASMUS (1987-): FOR UNDERGRADUATE OR
GRADUATE OR Ph.D STUDENTS
Examinations
Dissertations
LEARNING AGREEMENT
CREDIT RECOGNITION
KEY ROLE FOR ERASMUS MUNDUS: HIGH
QUALITY MOBILITY
ACTION 2: Partnerships
SERVIER (PARIS)
PIERRE-FABRE (CASTRES)
SPAIN
CENTER FOR GENOMIC REGULATION
(BARCELONA)
CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGIA
(MADRID)
PARC CIENTIFIC (BARCELONA)
INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE
(BARCELONA)
CIC BIOGUNE (BILBAO)
NOSCIRA (MADRID)
SWEDEN
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET (STOCKHOLM)
The placement procedure
1. Work programmes requested in advance to the hosting
laboratories
2. Selective but well disseminated call for applications
3. Ranking of all applicants (over 300 applications in
2009)
4. 5 motivated choices requested to the top 50
candidates (who are allowed to get in touch with the
former trainees by e-mail)
5. Final decision based on the scientific and technical
skills of the candidate and his/her knowledge of
English
The placement procedure
luciano.saso@uniroma1.it