ALFABET
Objectives
- The essential goal of the project is to exchange capacities between Asian and European universities oriented to Life Sciences, Food, Agriculture, Biology, Environment and Technology to respond to the main international challenges addressed to the well-being of the next generations: agriculture, food safety and security, technologies in life sciences, balanced management of the natural resources, sustainable rural development, adaptation to climate change, with a special attention to the contexts of rapid economic growth. The project aims to contribute to increase the relevance, the capacities and efficiency of the higher education (HE) system in Asia by strengthening of the existing network of cooperation among universities in the above mentioned fields.
- The specific objectives include development of HEI in the Asian countries by institutionalising a high-quality research, education and training network for management of natural resources, agricultural value chains and sustainable rural development. Improvement of education and research capabilities will address subjects relevant to agriculture, environmentally sound development and natural resource management (i.e. applied life sciences in the broadest sense of the term). In the area of human resources it contributes to enhancement of academic and professional staff expertise, production and transfer scientific and scholarly knowledge and information on curricula development and use of ECTS and DS etc.
Activities
- The consortium of 9 Asian countries and 7 EU countries guarantees wide dissemination of know-how achieved through mobility in Asia and Europe and the establishment of a strong academic network, active in teaching and research.
- Mobility periods are planned as follows respecting the rules of the programme and the budget limitations:
- Bachelor (undergraduate) mobility period of 5 months (one academic semester), 10 months (two academic semesters), 34 months for Target group 3 candidates
- Master mobility period of 10 months (two academic semesters) and 24 months (full degree which is most often preferred by Asian students)
- Doctorate mobility period of 6 months (oriented towards practical research) and 36 months (full degree which is very often preferred by Asian students)
- Post-doctorate mobility period of 6 months (oriented towards practical research)
- Teaching and administrative staff mobility period of 1 month (oriented mainly towards training practises, to establish the plan of further research cooperation between the universities, or to exchange experience in administrative and organisational matters)
Website: http://www.alfabet-em.cz/
