ATLANTISEIM ENGINEERING A NEW GLOBAL

ENVIRONMENT

UJA-UCF-JTH-UC-ERAU

2010-2014AGREEMENT NUMBER: 2010-2866-/001-001 CPT EU-US EIM

MONITORING VISIT PRESENTATION OCTOBER 23 2014

I. Overall Project Data, Partnerships and Management

Overall Project Data

•Start date: September 16th 2010

•First report due: January 15th 2012

•Intermediate report: September 15th 2012

•End date: Septmber 15th 2015 (Extended)

•Overall funding: 180,000 euros (European side)

•First Pre-financing payment: 40% (72,000 euros)

•Inter-atlantic student mobility grants: 24 (in) and 24 (out)

•Inter-atlantic faculty mobility grants: 6 (in) and 6 (out)

•New memorandum of understanding for this project signed by all partners

Steering Committee

•UJAEN: Victoria López-Ramón, Sebastián Bruque-Cámara, Nieves Muñoz-García, Monserrat Illana-García, Josep Martí Ribas.

•UC: Gemma Castro, Amaya Lobo-García de Cortázar

•JTH: Mikael Palmgren.

•UCF: Avelino González, Consuelo Stebbins.

•ERAU: Massood Towhidnejad

Communication means

•On-site personal meetings: Berlin, October 2010; Brussels, March 2012; Melbourne, March 2013.

•Quarterly virtual meetings starting in September 2012 (skype)

•E-mail, phone: several hundreds communications held throughout the life of the project (i.e. 320 e-mails in the last 3 years).

Project website

Project website

Project website

Project website

Project website

II. Project timetable, activities and foreseen results

Timetable and foreseen results

•Student mobiltiy objectives achieved (expected to finish SM in 2015)

•Staff mobility still pending to be carried out in 2015

•Academic targets achieved:

• Apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering and applied environmental issues

• Design and conduct experiments and interpret results related to environmental issues

• Work as member of multidisciplinary and multinational teams to acquire leadership skills and organization

• Communcate effectively in written, oral and graphical forms….

III. Student mobility

Student mobility grantsEUUSA (entire period)

Sending lead EU institution: UJ

Sending EU partner institution 2:UC

Sending EU partner institution 3:JTH

WITH GRANT

without Grant

WITH GRANT

without Grant

WITH GRANT

without Grant

Hosting lead US Institution:UCF

9 (0)6

2 (2) 5 (0)4 1 (1) 6 (1)

3 0

Hosting partner institution 2: ERAU

2 (1)4 0 2 (2)

3 0 04 0

Funding per student: 5,000 euros (1 semester minimum)

Student mobility grantsUSAEU (entire period)

Sending lead institution: UCF

Sending partner institution 2:ERAU

TOTAL

With Grant With Grant

Hosting lead EU Institution:UJ

5 (0)6

2 (0)4

7 (0)10

Hosting EU partner institution 2: UC

8 (0)4

1 (1)3

8 (0)7

Hosting EU partner institution 3:JTH

7 (0)3

1 (1)4

8 (0)7

Grading scale equivalences for EU students

UCUJ

UCFERAU JTH ECTS DESCRIPTION

Honor(**) A+ 5+ A Exceptional

10 A Distinction/5 A Excellent

9 A- 4.75B Very good8 B+ 4.25

7.5 B 4 C Good7 B- 3.756.5 C+ 3.25 D Satisfactory6 C5 C-/D+ Pass/3 E Pass

4 or <4 D/D- Fail<3.0 FX/F Fail

IV. Staff mobility

Academic staff mobility grantsEUUSA (entire period)

Sending lead EU institution: UJ

Sending EU partner institution 2:UC

Sending EU partner institution 3:JTH

Hosting lead US partner Institution:UCF

1 (1)1

1 (0)1

1 (1)1

Hosting partner institution 2:ERAU

1 (1)1

1 (1)1

1 (1)1

Grant per academic staff member: 5,000 euros, 4 weeks minimum

Academic staff mobility grantsUSAEU (entire period)

Sending lead institution: UCF

Sending partner institution 2:ERAU

Hosting lead EU Institution:UJ

1 (0)1

00

Hosting EU partner institution 2:UC

00

1 (0)0

Hosting EU partner institution 3:JTH

00

01

V. Evaluation

Evaluation outcomes & Activities

•Initial and intermediate reports submitted, amended and approved by the EACEA

•Initial external evaluation reports by American evaluator received (overall positive outcome).

•External evaluator in the EU belonging of the European Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Reports expected in early 2015.

•EACEA Audit, October 2014.

VI. Dissemination

Dissemination outcomes

•Mostly in the period 2012-2014.

•Website www.ujaen.es/Atlantis

•Calls and Calls for applications (2011-2015)

•Press releases. Local and national (in Spain and Sweden).

•Social networks (Facebook Peregrino Erasmus UJA).

•One poster sent to NAFSA 2013.

•One paper to be sent to NAFSA or EAIE 2015.

VII. Sustainability

Sustainability directions & facts

•Exchanges will go on among the partner beyond the Project (more than 20 students without Atlantis grant exchanged in the last 4 years).

•Other funding sources: Own univerisities funding, other potential sources such as Jafarco, Santander or Erasmus+ for non European countries.

•Current negotiations to create a double International Degree in Informatics between the University of Jaén and UCF.

VIII. Financial Management

EU budget allocation and remaining amounts

UJ UC JTH

Student mobility 55,000(5,000)

35,000 (10,000) 30,000

(5,000)

Faculty mobility 10,000(10,000)

10,000(7,715) 10,000

(10,000)

Administration Costs

28,000(0)

1,000(0)

1,000(0)

Total amount 94,000(15,000) 15,9%

46,000(17,715) 38,51%

41,000(26,000) 63,41%

Total: 180,000 (58,715)

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