UNIQUE – University Quality Exchange
The UNIQUE project focuses on promoting European initiatives to partner universities outside Europe, with the main aim of providing common grounds for academic co-operation.
The international set-up of the project consortium will provide examples of how successful exchange of quality assurance procedures look like and will work on the promotion of mutual understanding of diverse higher education systems.
Further, the project works on the comparability of different higher education systems and also aims to foster international exchange among students and staff to find international recognition by the target groups.
Regional UNIQUE centres will be installed to support the QA departments and international offices of non-EU partner universities and of universities in the respective regions to improve visibility of the European Higher Education Area and the European quality assurance procedures in the target countries.
Main aims of the project
- Promoting the idea of international collaboration and exchange
- Promoting quality in higher education in the beneficiary countries´ in order to be directly comparable with European standards and support the university management in its introduction or adaptation
- Defining, collecting and analysing key performance indicators (KPI) which are comparable to those from European universities
- Counselling the home university concerning recognition of European courses, grades and admission of incoming European students
- Counselling international offices and outgoing students in selecting high quality European institutions for their studies
- Screen the European higher education area for new developments
Key outputs of the project
- Knowledge Pool including a UNIQUE User Guide
- 5 UNIQUE Centres in 5 Different Universities
- UNIQUE Training Programme “European Educational Expert”
- UNIQUE Centre Activities
- Business Plan for all 5 UNIQUE Centres
Project partners
- FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria
- Aston University, UK
- Birla Institute of Management Technology, India
- Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
- Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia
- University of Alicante, Spain
- University of International Business and Economics, China
- Voronezh State University, Russia
- World University Service Graz, Austria