Capacity Building for Higher Education - Ukraine (2014-2020)

In 2015-2020 under Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education (КА211) out of 646 submitted, 48 projects have been funded and implementing with participation of Ukrainian universities, NGOs, companies, associations, research institutions and state and private enterprises. Over 200 different stakeholders are involved from all Ukraine, including over 100 Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions and plus research institutions of sectoral National Academies (medical, educational, natural sciences). HEIs have been building their capacities in 39 Joint Projects and 9 Structural Project within 19 national and 31 multi-country partnerships with 28 Programme Countries (out of 34) are among the projects partnership and 19 Partner countries: Armenia (3), Azerbaijan (5), Belarus (4), Georgia (8), Moldova (4), Montenegro (1), Serbia, Kazakhstan (4), Uzbekistan (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkmenistan (1), China (1), Mongolia (2), Israel (1), Morocco (1), Tunisia (1), Sri Lanka (1), Vietnam (2), Russia (2). The total EU-grant allocated to the projects amounts to about 43 ML Euro.
One project devoted to STEAM education for pedagogical HEIs is coordinated by the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University as a grant holder. From 2020, other 3 Ukrainian HEIs will have a role of the project grant holders-coordinators: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv Polytechnic National University and Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University.

Details about participation of Ukraine in EU-funded Erasmus+ 2021-2020 in 2 languages with hyperlinks at:

These 2-3 years projects, which receive between EUR 0,5 million and EUR 1 million, the teams have been working at modernising curricula in various fields of study, innovative teaching and learning, development of excellence study programmes, enhancing quality assurance, university governance reform, internationalization or university-enterprise cooperation based on a bottom-up approach by higher education institutions based on their Institutional, relevant Sectoral and National Strategies.

The projects results have impact on the capability building of higher education institutions and other actors to implement reforms based on the EU best practices on the modernisation and development of new curricula, e.g. modern expertise, innovative teaching and learning, professional courses in foreign languages, cultivating good governance of the universities; introduced new services for students, e.g. Ombudsmen offices, career centers, international cooperation offices, quality assurance centers etc.; stronger cooperation between higher education and society at large, e.g. practice oriented curricular, innovation labs and hubs. The significant human resources development programme and establishment well equipped infrastructures for teaching and learning excellence to meet the labour market demands and societal challenges. 30% of the projects grant amount cover the modern equipment purchase.

The interest to this Action is huge from Ukrainian higher education institutions since it is the only programme which has systemic approach to capacity building of higher education for further implementation of the Bologna tools and performing reforms in line with Laws of Ukraine “On Education”, “On Higher Education”, “On Research and Research-Technical Activities” and Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU implementation.

Under former Tempus Programme, Ukraine had implemented 338 projects since 1993 till 2017:

Detailed information is available at: http://erasmusplus.org.ua/erasmus/ka2-proekty-spivpratsi/rozvytok-potentsialu-ex-tempus.html;

Projects database – Ukraine: http://erasmusplus.org.ua/erasmus/novyny-i-baza-proektiv.html;
Projects results database: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/

Ukraine in Erasmus+ 2014-2019 with statistics, links to the projects under all actions in 2 languages (English and Ukrainian).