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SUSTAINABILITY – THE 3 ES:
Culture
http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/the-three-es-of-sustainability/
WHEN?
TEMPUS PROJECTImplementation
period- Present -
TEMPUS PROJECT
Ending period- Present -
SUSTAINABILITYFurther maintenance /
development- Future -
SUSTAINABILITY? - PROJECT ORIENTED -
Outcomes of the project continue after the end of EU funding
Relevant activities are pursued and outputs are maintained or developed after the end of the EU funding
e.g.: continuing the courses
A SUSTAINABLE PROJECT:
Maintains and develops the outcomes, goals and products
Creates new outcomes and products
Institutionalizes the process
Enlarges and intensifies the cooperation
A NON-SUSTAINABLE PROJECT:
Maintains staff positions
Maintains all activities
Depends on grant funding
Project-level factors:
Quality – Project design
Partners-Searching
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Partners - Involvement
Management and
leadership
Active audience
Securing funding for continuation
SUSTAINABILITY – FACTORS?
SUSTAINABILITY – FACTORS?
Context-level factors:
Academic
support
National Support
Socio-economic support
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
- Real needs of the target group- Long-term market trends- Close involvement of the PC institutions in the design period- Innovation
- New ideas Reforms/ Improvements
Level of risk implied
- Risk and needs analysis
PROJECT DESIGN
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
Sources of partners’ motivation; mutual benefits;
Group the team;
Dedicated staff; project work career
opportunities
Balanced and continuous involvement
Participative management, clear decision-making
procedures, regular reporting
New project perspectives for the partners
INVOLVMENT
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW? Manager: - experience in international projects
- Compatibility – time, field, reliability - : work in the project
– institutional work
Influent / important persons in the design part – promote
innovation
Clear roles and responsibilities
Feedback from: National Tempus Coordinators, external
advisers, partners;
Dissemination to most influential top-level bureaucrats;
Quality procedures in line with Western academic practices;
Anticipate staff turnover and create capacities for other
potential staff.
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
Cultural and creative planning – preventing the cultural barriers to participation;
Participation of students and target publics in the implementation of activities (dissemination, tutoring new participants, building a website, etc.).
Symbolic rewards to the most committed ones (e.g. article in the newsletter).
ACTIVE AUDIENCE
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
Which activities need to be sustainable? Their cost?
Who will sustain your project?
- Private / public institutions
- Establishing formal agreements
Lobby
Expensive activities – few costs
Alternatives: e-learning courses, videoconferences,
local rather than EU experts, etc.
Attractive curriculum – tuition fees for students
SECURING RESOURCES
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
Which types of activity can benefit from university
support (material, financial and human)?
- formal commitment regarding resource allocation;
Project attractive for the university strategy;
Top managers – active involved;
Publicize the project: enhances added value for
institutions (e.g. leaflets, newspaper interviews)
ACADEMIC SUPPORT
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
Opportunities and threats for future
accreditation;
Attractiveness and future visibility for national
and academic bodies;
Individual contacts with members of the
Ministries and other important authorities.
NATIONAL SUPPORT
SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?
Support from local (private or public) actors to
ensure the project’s sustainability;
Cultural gaps or economic impediments to socio-
economic support;
SOCIO-ECONOMICSUPPORT
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