Date: 27-28 January 2020

Location: SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre, Brussels

Organized: European Education and Culture Executive Agency, EACEA

On the 27th and 28th of January 2020, the National Erasmus + Office for HE in Albania, together with representatives of the 10 Winning Projects from the Albanian HEI, participated in the Erasmus + “Capacity Building in HE” program at the “Grant Holders 2020” meeting.

During the two-day meeting EACEA presented the technicalities, innovations, guides, tips for successful project implementation in the next two or three years.  During bilateral meetings between EACEA representatives with participants, more topics have been elaborated.

The meeting has been an excellent opportunity for new and experienced practitioners to exchange knowledge and to network with other projects.

We are very proud that Albania in the last call has increased the number of winners to 10 and 5 of them are coordinators of partnerships from Europe and the Western Balkans.

The winning projects in the 2019 CBHE Call are:

01 VTech@WBUni-“Accelerating Western Balkans University Modernization by Incorporating Virtual Technologies (VTech@WBUni)”, Project’s Leader UAMD UNIVERSITETI ALEKSANDER MOISIU DURRES, Albanian HEI’s partners; UET, POLIS, EPOKA

02 REACH- “Improving REsearch capacities of Albanian higher education institutions in conservation and restoration of Cultural Heritage”, Project’s Leader UNIVERSITETI I ARTEVE, Albanian HEI’s partners; UPT, ASA Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike, UNISHK, MESY

03 DRIVE- “Developing Research and InnoVation CapacitiEs in Albania and Kosovo”, Project’s Leader UNIVERSITETI POLIS SHPK, Albanian HEI’s partners; UET, UPT.

04 INTERBA- “INTERnationalization at Home: Embedding Approaches and Structures to Foster Internationalization at Western Balkans”, Project’s Leader UNIVERSITETI I TIRANES, Albanian HEI’s partners; UET.

05 BSTONE- “Higher Education–Enterprise platform for fostering, modernization and sustainable growth in natural stone industry in Western Balkans”, Project’s Leader UNIVERSITETI POLITEKNIK I TIRANES, Albanian HEI’s partners; UE, UoGJ

06 BLUEWBC- Sustainable development of BLUE economies through higher education and innovation in Western Balkan Countries”, Albanian HEI’s partners; UV, UT, DPDetare.

07 KnowHub “Reconnecting universities and enterprises to unleash regional innovation and entrepreneurial activity.” Albanian HEI’s partners; UV, UET.

08 QUADIC “Quality development of international cooperation and project management” Albanian HEI’s partners; UET, UAMD, UoGJ, UMT, UNIKO.

09 VALEU-X “Virtual Albanian European Universities Exchange” Albanian HEI’s partners; UET, EPOKA, UNISHK, UE, UAMD, UNIKO

10 GEOBIZ “Business driven problem-based learning for academic excellence in geoinformatics”, Albanian HEI’s partners; UPT, UT, Land & co National directory of GIZ and geoportal.

The link below is providing, Agenda,  Videos – Operational/Financial Management:

https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/events/erasmus-capacity-building-in-higher-education-grantholders-meeting_en