International Projects

ROSI participates in programs where it is possible to get a grant from leading research and educational funds. One of them is Erasmus+.

Erasmus+ (2014-2020), also called Erasmus Plus, is the new 14.7 billion euro catch-all framework program for education, training, youth and sport. The new Erasmus+ programme combines all the EU's current schemes for education, training, youth and sport, including the Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius, Grundtvig), Youth in Action and five international co-operation programmes (Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink and the programme for co-operation with industrialised countries). The Erasmus+ regulationwas signed on 11 December 2013.

A Jean Monnet Module is a short teaching programme (or course) in the field of European Union studies at a higher education institution with a duration of three years.

Each Module has to propose a minimum of 40 teaching hours per academic year.

Teaching hours are taken to include direct contact hours in the context of group lectures, seminars, tutorials and may include any of the aforementioned in a distance learning format but do not include individual instruction.

Modules may concentrate on one particular discipline in European studies or be multidisciplinary in approach and therefore call upon the academic input of several professors and experts.

Erasmus+ supports Jean Monnet Modules with aiming to:

• promote research and first teaching experience for young researchers and scholars and practitioners in European Union issues;
• foster the publication and dissemination of the results of academic research;
• create interest in the EU and constitute the basis for future poles of European knowledge, particularly in Partner Countries;
• foster the introduction of a European Union angle into mainly non EU related studies;
• deliver tailor-made courses on specific EU issues relevant for graduates in their professional life.

The Jean Monnet Module anchors and mainstreams teaching on EU matters in curricula which so far have included EU-related content only to a limited extent. They also bring facts and knowledge on the European Union to a broad spectrum of learners and interested citizens.

Within the framework of this sub-programme in 2016 the following projects were written:

1. Harmonization of Interfaith Dialogue and Countering Religious Extremism: the European Experience (the author of the project – A. Apanasenok).
2. Developing Information Culture of Society: Integrating European Experience in Russian Reality (the author of the project – T. Ezhova).
3. The Formation of the Ecological Values in the Structure of Humanistic Approach (the author of the project – T. Ezhova).
4. The Formation of Young People’s Financial Literacy: European Experience and Russian Reality (the author of the project – A. Rudykh).
5. Coopetition: Basis, EU Practices and Implementation (the author of the project –N. Klikunov).
6. Modern Approaches to Childhood Support: European Experience and Contemporary practice (the author of the project – V. Ryazatsev).

In 2015 ROSI won a grant Erasmus+ - Jean Monnet - Modules. The project is called ‘Development of Entrepreneurial Culture of Society: European Experience and Russian Practices’ (the author of the project – A. Vorobyev).

Erasmus+: Capacity-building projects in the field of higher education' build on the success of the former Alfa, Edu-link and Tempus programmes and aim to:

• support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education in the Partner Countries;
• promote cooperation between Programme Countries and eligible Partner Countries (as well as among eligible Partner Countries themselves);
• promote voluntary convergence with EU developments in higher education;
• promote people-to-people contacts, intercultural awareness and understanding.

Whiting the framework of this sub-programme the Regional Social Open Institute has initiated the formation of an international consortium and participation in the competition for a grant with the joint project “Accreditation and Quality Assurance Network in 3 Partner Countries / ACQUANET”. For now, there are 11 member countries of the EU and the CIS: Lithuania, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan.

Knowledge Alliances are transnational, structured and result-driven projects, notably between higher education and business. Knowledge Alliances are open to any discipline, sector and to cross-sectoral cooperation. The partners share common goals and work together towards mutually beneficial results and outcomes.

Knowledge Alliances implement a coherent and comprehensive set of interconnected activities which are flexible and adaptable to different current and future contexts and developments across Europe. The following list provides examples of group of activities:

• boosting innovation in higher education, business and in the broader socio-economic environment;
• developing entrepreneurship mind-set and skills;
• stimulating the flow and exchange of knowledge between higher education and enterprises.

Knowledge Alliances may organize mobility activities of students, researchers and staff in so far as they support/complement the other activities of the Alliance and bring added value in the realization of the project's objectives.

Whiting the framework of this sub-programme the project “Applied Research Capacity through Training and Innovative Cooperation” is being implemented. There are six partner countries which are involved in this project: Belgium, Germany, Russia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Malta and Russia. Russia is represented by the Regional Open Social Institute.