Universum College has 71 Credit Mobility agreements and 4 active Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education projects. Our institution has more KA1 and KA2 projects than the majority of HEIs in Kosovo, combined.
Internationalization of our university remains as one of our academic and professional priorities. As a part of our policy we consistently update our internationalization strategies in order to optimize the mechanisms that facilitate professional exchanges amongst staff and students. Hence, we are always looking forward to establish cooperation with respective institutions across Europe and beyond. Universum College is recognized as the most internationalized institution in Kosovo. This subsequently has resulted from the ever increasing number of students and staff whom have obtained international experience by participating in exchange activities, projects as well as joint partnerships with various institutions worldwide. With three different innovative campuses in the most dynamic and attractive cities in Kosovo, Universum College has always been the number one selection of both native and international students. Hence, we strive to keep our trophy and consistently look for new partners and cooperating institutions.
We are fully committed to internationalization in order:
- to strengthen international thinking, culture and development by focusing on research, studies and exchanges,
- to increase the number of partnerships and reduce the impact of stereotypes resulting from communication and cultural barriers amongst people of different backgrounds,
- to increase the international competitiveness of Universum College, by boosting the number of mobility of international students,
- to minimize the number of students and staff who have not experienced international opportunities and participated in joint activities,
- to promote Universum College and Kosovo on the international arena by ensuring qualitative, professional and entertaining partnerships.
We are continuously looking to establish new partnerships. If you are interested in establishing partnerships for future projects and activities submit your request to erasmus@universum-ks.org.
For more information and suggestions you can direct your inquiry to the representatives of our International office at Universum College.
Arlinda Qehaja – Head of the International Office
Email: arlinda@universum-ks.org
Tel: +377 (0) 44 402 205
Gentiana Berisha – Manager of the Erasmus Projects
e-mail: gentianaberisha@universum-ks.org
Tel: +377 (0) 44 108 405
Erza Mehmeti- Coordinator of the Erasmus + Credit Mobility
e-mail: erza.mehmeti@universum-ks.org
Tel: +386 (0) 49 181 160
Within Erasmus + Credit Mobility program we are consistently looking for partnerships, aiming at increasing the number of exchange students, faculty and staff in order to further expand our cooperation and creating international partnerships. The table below consists of our current partners. However, we are currently in ongoing negotiations with many other partnering institutions. Thus, jointly we want to enhance our academic and cultural backgrounds and experiences.
Universum College has been participating in several projects under Erasmus + programme. Through these projects we aim at increasing our capacities, promoting internationalization, increasing professional cooperation, establishing strong partnerships, and fostering cultural exchanges.
Capacity Building Projects that we have been involved in are:
- ITEM-(Innovative Teaching Education in Mathematics)
ITEM aims at improving and increasing academic and professional capacities of students. This project has a wide spectrum of tools, methodologies as well as programs that targets mathematic skills of first year students enrolled in Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering. Some of the aims and objectives of this project are:
- Motivate students to learn mathematics.
- Engage students in mathematics studies.
- Build students confidence in their ability to acquire mathematics skills.
- Reduce failure rate in mathematics courses.
- Improve teaching and teaching deliverable tools along mathematics lecture sessions.
- Promote inter-disciplinary teaching.
- Build digital literacy of teachers & students.
- Advance machine – human collaboration.
- Promote a personalized education.
- Enhance student & teacher mobility between Program and Partner Countries.
- Support life-long learning.
Our partner universities in ITEM are:
- Aalborg University, Denmark
- University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology,
- Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
- Hadassah Academic College (HAC), Israel
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke, Czech Republic
- Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
- STEPS (MSc in Sustainable Food Production Systems)
This project aims at implementing modern MSc programs in sustainable food production systems. Through this project academic programs and courses will be reviewed, redesigned and integrated with modern MSc material. Such programs aim at supporting the development of agriculture and sustainable food production.
Our partner universities in this project are:
- Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania
- European University of Tirana,/Albania
- University of Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Cantonal Ministry of Education Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic
- University of Agronomic Sciences Bucharest, Romania
- Technologiko Ekpaideftiko Idryma Steras Elladas, Greece
- ReadLab C. GreeceTechnologiko Ekpaideftiko Idryma Steras Elladas, Greece
- ReadLab C, Greece
- e-VIVA (Enhancing and Validating Service-Related Competencies in Versatile Learning Environments in Western Balkan Universities)
This project aims at creating a blended learning approach to facilitate and validate competence development related to service orientation in rather informal learning contexts in higher education institutions and workplace learning contexts. Its contribution relies in the demonstration of those competencies that are of fundamental importance in the labor market and that are acquired to a large extent in non-formalized learning contexts. With its approach of combining higher education and professional practice, e-VIVA will contribute to an improved transparency of the acquired competencies in a transnational comparative scale. Moreover, it will provide learning and validation opportunities in highly contextualized and individualized learning settings. All this will also create new learning pathways and eventually lead to a better matching of learning contents and individual learning styles (preferences).
Our partner universities in this project are:
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- University of Duisburg Essen, Germany
- Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia
- University Mother Teresa, Macedonia
- University of Elbasan Aleksander Xhuvani, Albania
- University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sarajevo School of Science and Technology SSST,Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Univerzitet Donja Gorica, Serbia
- University of Montenegro, Montenegro
- University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- University of Niš, Serbia
- E- UNITE- (European Youth Network for Diversity and Tolerance)
The E-UNITE project brings various partners (2 universities, 2 NGOs, Institute and a youth center) together in a concerted effort to develop the foundations of the E-UNITE network – an international youth network, which aims to promote community-led initiatives in the fields of tolerance, inclusivity and diversity.
The main output of the E-UNITE project – the Online Hub is a unique online ground, where youth workers and youth from many different European countries will have the opportunity to converge, share ideas and help each other achieve community and network goals, which they can set for themselves. The E-UNITE Hub will allow for the convergence of young minds and exchange of ideas, as well as support for community-led initiatives. Likewise, the Hub will be a base for exchange of know-how and good practices of youth workers, which are interested in working on those community-led initiatives or alternatively – youth workers, who wish to develop youth network of their own. The aim of E-UNITE is to help increase the positive impact, promote tolerance, diversity and bring communities together.
The project is implemented under the framework of the European Commissions’ Programme Erasmus+, within Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, Action: Strategic partnership for youth.
- UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA , Cypros
- LAW AND INTERNET FOUNDATION, BULGARIA
- HIGHER INCUBATOR GIVING GROWTH & SUSTAINABILITY , Greece
- CENTRUL ROMAN DE POLITICI EUROPENE , Romania
- CELJE YOUTH CENTER, SLOVENIA
- REBUS
Ready for Business – integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies three-year project focuses on the development, testing, validation and creation of basic training modules for expansion of entrepreneurial competencies of graduates at the intersection of academic education and practice. With a duration from 2017-2019, this project involves active mobility of projects’ participants between partner universities, purchase of equipment and seminars on research topics.
Our partner universities in this project are:
- University of Sarajevo
- University of Duisburg Essen
- University of Palermo
- University FH Johanneum Gesellschaft M.B.H
- European University of Tirana
- Volga State University of Technology
- CONSUS
Connecting Science-Society Collaborations for Sustainability Innovation (CONSUS) project aims at establishing a regional science-society network for sustainability innovations in Albania and Kosovo in order to strengthen the connection and collaboration of institutions in the field of higher education, research and practice.
Our partner universities in this project are:
- University of Graz
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
- Leuphana University
- University of Limerick
Tempus Project: “Encouraging the process of Curriculum Development based on Learning Outcomes and Research Guided Teaching in the Private Higher Education Institution of Kosovo”. The project encourages the process of curriculum development based on learning outcomes and research guided teaching in the private higher education institutions of Kosova. Project Partners are:
- University of Salzburg, Austria
- University College Cork, Ireland
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- University Politechnica, Rumania
- Kosova Accreditation Agency, Kosovo
- National Qualification Authority, Kosovo
Tempus Project: “Supporting and Developing the Structures for QA at the Private Higher Education Institutions in Kosovo“. The project aimed to introduce and enhance quality standards and mechanisms at the Private Higher Education Providers in Kosova, this in order to facilitate comparability, credibility and Quality Assurance practices in accordance with the Bologna principles and the Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in Kosova (2005-2015).
- University of Salzburg, Austria
- University Politechnica, Romania
University College Cork, Ireland