European Studies Revitalized Across Asian Universities

EURASIA is a capacity building project in higher education aimed at strengthening the academic ties between higher-educational institutions (HEI) coming from 4 program countries (Bulgaria, Poland, France and Italy) with record of excellence in the area of the capacity building and 4 HEI from 2 partner countries (China and India) with complementarity of expertise. In addition, an SME based in London will provide special services to the consortium in line with its expertise. The project faces the challenges and needs to establish, update and modernize curricula in EU studies in a globalizing world and refers to the strategies priorities of the EU Global strategy 2016. EURASUA presents an equal opportunity for capacity building of all partner institutions with its shared domain of ideas, educational know how and resources, managed through transparent procedures and empowering of all stakeholders. The project activities include the elaboration of original, innovative and methodologically grounded modules and courses on European Studies, upgrade and modernization of existing courses and developing unique ones addressing regional cooperation. The project envisages a coherent plan of training, expert meetings, joint development of teaching materials (in the framework of 3 core modules each containing 4-5 courses at both the B.A. and M.A. level), their piloting in India and China, additional extracurricular activities and the dissemination and exploitation of the project’s results that will make the new teaching content a permanent part of the curriculum in the two partner countries. All that will widen the dialogue between Europe and Asia in the framework of recent EU documents encouraging such collaboration especially through academic ties, joint research projects and students and staff mobility and exchanges.