The ERASMUS Programme in the Czech Republic
3. Activities of the ERASMUS Programme
3.2 Overview of ERASMUS students mobilities
The ERASMUS Programme in the Czech Republic was launched in 1997. Today, all public higher education institutions in the Czech Republic are actively involved in the programme and 26 out of 46 private higher education institutions are participating. There were only 18 private higher education institutions participating in 2008. The ERASMUS programme is targeted at higher education institutions and their students, teachers and other staff and also at enterprises and other representatives of working life. The ERASMUS programme encourages students and staff mobility throughout Europe and promotes multilateral cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe and between higher education institutions and enterprise. There are two types of activities supported by the ERASMUS programme. Decentralised activities such as mobility of individuals, which may include:
● Mobility of students for the purposes of studying or training in higher education institutions;
● Mobility of students - placements in enterprises, training centres, research centres or other organisations;
● Mobility of teaching staff in higher education institutions in order to teach in a partner higher education institution abroad;
● Mobility of teaching and other staff in higher education institutions and staff of enterprises for purposes of training or teaching.
Source [7] and [8]
DE 23 848 28 541 224 861
ES 22 891 31 158 222 432
FR 22 501 30 213 227 140
IT 16 389 21 039 168 060
PL 9 974 5 388 89 569
UK 7 131 11 723 87 414
BE 4 491 6 347 50 958
CZ 4 725 5 975 87 144
NL 4 971 7 678 51 440
PT 4 312 5 388 40 464
AT 3 971 5 112 39 565
FI 3 851 4 549 38 398
RO 3 261 3 994 30 259
TR 2 852 8 758 32 103
GR 2 714 3 179 24 688
HU 2 658 4 140 27 576
SE 2 530 2 997 26 663
LT 1 910 3 002 17 763
DK 1 658 2 416 18 630
IE 1 567 2 128 17 131
BG 1 687 9 212
HR 235 235
CY 216 1 107
EE 939 5 079
IS 225 1 886
LV 1 736 7 411
LI 235 253
LU 468 2 185
MT 189 51 440
NO 1 356 12 011
SK 2 151 11 776
SI 1 368 8 020
Table 1 32 countries participated in student mobilities in 2010 / 20 countries in 2006
Centralised activities: Multilateral projects - focusing inter alia on innovation, experimentation and the exchange of good practice in the areas mentioned in the specific and operational objectives.
Multilateral networks - run by consortia of higher education institutions and representing a discipline or a cross-disciplinary field (Erasmus Thematic Networks), which aim to develop new learning concepts and competencies. Such networks may also include representatives from other public bodies of from enterprises or associations.
There are also Erasmus Intensive Language Courses (EILC) - specialized courses in the less widely known languages of the participating countries and Erasmus intensive programmes organised on a multilateral basis.
Our institution – The University of Business in Prague does not offer EILC courses as such through the Erasmus programme but for students of our partner university in Austria the IMC Fachhochschule Krems the Department of Foreign Languages organized intensive Czech language courses since Czech is taught as a foreign language in Austria. The learners of Czech arrived together with their teacher to participate in the courses and spent always a week at the University of Business in Prague.
The University of Business has been participating in the ERASMUS Programme since the academic year 2003/2004. There have been 84 students studying abroad so far - in Austria at the IMC Fachhochschule Krems in English, in Germany at the Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz in German, at the Escola Universitária del Maresme (Fundacio Tecno Campus Mataró-Maresme) in Spanish, at the Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckere in Brussels, Belgium in French, at the University College of
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2006/2007 2005/2006 2004/2005 2003/2004 2002/2003 2001/2002 2000/2001 1999/2000 1998/1999
Graph 1 Ratio of outgoing and incoming students in the years 1998-2007
Table 2
Overview of numbers of outgoing numbers of students and teachers from Private Higher Educational Institutions in the ERASMUS Programme in the Czech Republic in 2007/2008
Source [6]
Outgoing Outgoing students teachers Institute of Finance and Administration. 51 7 College of Public Administration and
International Relations in Prague 41 2
University of Business in Prague 28 15
Institute of Hospitality Management
in Prague 8 26 20
The College of Entrepreneurship. 24 12
J. A. Komensky College of Higher Education 24 11 The New Anglo-American College in Prague 23 3 School of International and Public Relations 18 0
Skoda Auto College 7 3
Newton College 8 2
Institute of Central Bohemia 6 0
College of Logistics 4 0
Private College of Economic Studies 3 6
College Karlovy Vary 2 0
Institute of Restauration and Conservation
Techniques 1 0
The College of Nursing and Midwifery 0 1
College of European and Regional Studies 0 7
The College of Pilsen 0 4
266 93
Business /Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu/ in Poznan, Poland in English. We have so far accepted 11 students from partner universites – 8 from the Catholic University in Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany and 5 from the University in Prešov, Slovakia.
Concerning teacher mobilities we had 30 pedagogical employees and staff going abroad and teaching at partner universities in Austria, Germany at the Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, Fachhochshule Braunschweig /Wolfenbüttel, at the Willy Scharnow Institut für Tourismus at the Freie Universität Berlin, in Spain, in Belgium, in Poland and in Slovakia.
In this academic year 2011/2012 we have 12 students going abroad and studying in Austria, Germany, Spain, Poland and in Latvia at the Baltic International Academy in Riga.
Until today we have also accepted teachers and staff from our partner universities altogether 30 in number from the:
● IMC Fachhochschule Krems
● Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz
Graph 2 Number of outgoing students and teachers in the years 1998-2007
Graph 3 Number of outgoing students 2007/2008 - comparison CR and chosen countries
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
1998/1999 1999/2000
2000/2001 2001/2002
2002/2003 2003/2004
2004/2005 2005/2006
2006/2007
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● Fachhochshule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
● Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckere
● University College of Business /Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu/ in Poznan
● Escola Universitaria del Maresme
● University in Prešov
● Wyzsa Skola Ekonomii i Prawa im. prof. Edwarda Lipinskiego Kielce
● Polytecnic Institute of Leira
● Leeds Metropolitan University
● Karabük University in Turkey
EURYDICE is an information network about European education and has been a means of the European Commission for collecting and disseminating information about education systems in the European countries. On the basis of structured questionnaires originate documents which compare different elements of educational systems. These surveys are Available in printed and electronic forms. The result of long-term elaboration is the database Eurybase containing detailed information about educational systems not only of EU member countries, but also of associated countries. The Czech division of the Eurydice programme was established in 1996 in the Institute for Information in Education.
The Bologna Declaration was signed in 1999 by 29 European countries with the aim to establish a European dimension for university education till the end of the decade.
NARIC - the EU member states founded the agency of Network of National Academic Recognition Information Centres (NARIC) with representation in all member countries and also in the EFTA countries.
This centre gives information about accrediting academic titles in other countries and is part of Erasmus.
There have been given clear directives to develop initiatives which will define generic and subject specific core competencies for disciplines, reinforce the link between universities, society and industry, develop links and synergies with other Socrates activities, e.g. Curriculum Development projects, Intensive Programmes, Grundtvig and Leonardo da Vinci Programme, develop transversal themes, promoting synergies between teaching and research.
The project should also be developed within the context of the action of the Bologna process.
One of the four generic domains is curriculum development:
identification of core curricula at the European level for the Bachelor degree in selected disciplines, innovation in curricula to represent the changing expectations of society and industry, supporting international work placements in industry as part of the curriculum, implications of teaching and learning in a multi-cultural environment and quality assurance.
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