Background: Max.Grant Amount: $25.000 USD
The aim of the Student Initiatives is to empower students to address issues related to systemic change in higher education. SI supports the involvement of students in the democratization of the educational process and in building issue-based transnational student alliances in South Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The International Higher Education Support Program is pleased to invite project proposals for new projects from students within its Student Initiatives from the following Southeast European (SEE) university student communities: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia.
• Student Solidarity for Antidiscrimination and Access to Higher Education in SEE countries.
They are inviting joint project proposals that would study the current practices of exclusion and advocate for the access to and inclusion in
higher education of students on the grounds of gender, race, ethnicity, disability, religion and sexual orientation.They are looking for
student organizations that are driven by the spirit of solidarity among various student groups to take a broad look at the practices of
exclusion, discrimination, humiliation and hatred resulting in limiting particular student groups’ access to higher education and advocate
for access and inclusion of excluded groups. They are particularly interested in receiving proposals that cover two or more dimensions of
exclusion, stress on building solidarity among and with discriminated groups, and cover two or more SEE countries.
• Examination of higher education reforms in SEE Europe and the quality of higher education.
They are inviting joint project proposals for cross-boarder initiatives by SEE student organizations from at least in two different SEE
countries that will examine the implementation of the recent higher education reforms at the national and/or regional level and explore its
potential and limitations for fostering higher education reforms in the SEE region from the students’ point of view.The projects should
focus on problem areas which are connected to students’ needs and expectation; what exactly students perceive as the outcomes of the
reform at the areas such as students’ freedom to choose, equal access, transparency, student mobility, student governance; student
centered learning, etc.
• Students against Corruption.
They are looking for small local student groups / organizations who are interested to examine the situation of corruption at the universities
in their countries. They are interested to receive project proposals which focus on the examination of any of the following areas:
- academic fraud at universities (e.g. cheating bribery, etc.)
- finances (e.g. examination of the usage of tuition fees)
- administrative services and practices (e.g. the purchasing of textbooks as a condition to take and exam, the examination of the
enrollment process to student dorms, etc.)
Eligibility:
The call is open for students within its Student Initiatives from the following Southeast European (SEE) university student communities: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia.
All submitted project proposals must meet the following requirements:
- initiated and implemented by undergraduate and graduate students;
- submitted and implemented by existing student organizations.
The maximum length of a project is 12 months. Earliest possible project start: June 2012.
The maximum amount of the budget request is $ 25.000 USD.
Deadline: 29 February 2012
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