Tempus

at Work

Spain in Tempus

The role of Spanish partners in Joint European Projects has been quite constant over the past years. In 1995, Spanish higher education institutions took part in one-fourth of all Tempus projects.

With 30 % and 28 % of all Joint European Projects with Spanish participation in Poland and Hungary, it is evident that Spain is highly active in these countries. However, the Spanish impact in the programme is probably best felt in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, where Spain participates in more than a quarter of all projects as well as in Kyrgystan, Moldova and Uzbekistan, where the Spanish involvement is very considerable.

What is Tempus?

Tempus is a programme of the European Union which aims to promote social and economic changes through the reform of higher education in Central and Eastern Europe, the New Independent States and Mongolia. Tempus Phare has been active in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990 and current priorities focus on preparation for accession to the EU. In the New Independent States and Mongolia, Tempus Tacis has supported the transition process towards a market economy through the reform of higher education since 1993. Tempus achieves results through supporting international co-operation between higher education institutions in the EU and in the partner countries.

Spain in Tempus

Spanish participation in the programme has been extremely positive since 1990. With Spanish universities participating in 282 Tempus projects, Spain was represented in over 22% of the 1,257 projects supported since the programme began. In 1995, a total of 38 Spanish universities are actively involved in running Tempus projects, which represents nearly 73% of all Spanish universities.

Spanish institutions have been involved strongly in higher education reform in all academic and structural fields. The humanities and medicine have attracted a slightly higher Spanish contribution, with respectively 28% and 29% of projects cooperating with Spanish partners. In terms of mobility, Spanish teachers and students have been more out-going than the EU average, with more than 29% of all exchanges with Spain going to the partner countries (fig.1994/95).

Some statistics

Central and Eastern Europe
New Independent States and Mongolia (NIS)
Total
No. of Spanish higher education institutions
-
-
52
No. of Spanish higher education institutions involved in Tempus Joint European Projects (in 1995)
-
-
38
No. of Joint European Projects involving Spain approved (from 1990 to 1995)
269
13
282
No. of applications for Joint European Projectsreceived involving Spain (1995)
117
20
137
No. of Joint European Projects approved (in 1995/96) involving Spain
44
8
52
Mobility flows between Spain and partner countries (1994)
848
-
Staff to Spain
384
fig. not avail.
Staff from Spain
248
36
284
Students to Spain
171
fig. not avail.
Students from Spain
45
6
51

A selection of Tempus Projects with Spanish involvement

The figures on the above map indicate the main towns with the number of Joint European Projects in which a partner from this town participated in 1995.

Madrid: Barcelona: Granada: Valencia:
Modernisation of the Faculty of Journalism of the State University of Moldova through the creation of four new departments (Social Communication, Public relations, Information Systems and library), the creation of a continuing education programme and the improvement of the information infrastructure (10037-95) Establishment of a transitional network for continuing education of enterprise trainers together with the Janos Pannonius University, Hungary, and the Lublin Technical University, Poland (04214-94) The Universidad de Granada along with other institutions, assists the Academia Istropolitana in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, by focusing on areas of strategic importance for the development of the institution, such as internal quality assurance, its legal status and administrative structure (01538-95) Cooperation with Bulgarian universities in Sofia, Svishtov, Plovdiv and Varnov with the aim to establish an inter-university centre for Business Logistics and Entrepreneurship, including the development of new short-term courses and an MBA programme on a continuing education basis (07784-94)

Further information concerning the projects described above and Tempus in general, in particular a compendium of running projects, can be obtained from the National Tempus Office or the European Training Foundation.

Subject areas covered by Joint European Projects with Spanish participation from 1990 to 1995

Partner countries with particularly high Spanish participation in Joint European Projects from 1990 to 1995

These statistics should be read as follows: 32.3% of Czech Joint European Projects have at least one Spanish partner involved.

The Spanish National Contact Point can be reached as follows:

Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencias
Subdireccion General de Cooperacion Internacional
Paseo del Prado, 28
E-28071 Madrid
Tel.: (34)1-4201659
Fax: (34)1-4203325