Intercambio de Expertos

About the Project

Programa
de Intercambio
de Expertos Cuba-Union Europea II

To consolidate the results of the EU-project FORGEC, EFMD has been awarded a 42-months project aiming to support the modernisation of Cuba in the field of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. EFMD, together with ESADE, Nova School of Business and Economics and the university of Alicante, design and organise courses, trainings and seminars in the eight main universities of Cuba and facilitate the exchange of good practices between Cuban and European HEIs.

As project leader, EFMD coordinates the execution of the activities, mobilising experts from the consortium business schools and universities and facilitating the inclusion of new partners in the project activities.

Project objectives

1. Consolidate the overall results achieved under the project FORGEC and in particular:
   1. Promote the long-term cooperation created in the field of management education between Europe and Cuba;
   2. Reinforce the quality assurance schemes developed in each participating university;
   3. Expand the scope of the methodological cabinets to creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation topics;
2. Strengthen the exchange of good practices on management education between Europe and Cuba;
3. Train teachers and trainers to ensure that they will share with Cuban managers and local actors the latest developments on management education in Europe.

Project activities

Concluded events:

• Trainings / Courses on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation
  • Workshop on innovation and creativity in management education in the Agrarian University of Havana (October 2017), University of Havana (November 2017), University of Holguín (February 2018) and University of Camagüey (March 2018)
  • Study tour of 23 Cuban professors and HEI senior managers to facilitate networking and exchange of best practices with European creativity incubators (November 2017 and April 2018)
  • 2018 Annual Alumni meeting (“Jornadas de continuidad”) on leadership, innovation and change management (January 2018)
    
    
• Capacity-building events
  • Mission of Impact evaluation of international cooperation on university management (November 2017 / January 2017)
  • Mission of activities exploration and consolidation of the methodological cabinets (December 2017)
  • Seminar on institutional communication (May 2018)
  • Mission of preparation of the Cuban Case study book on management education (May 2018)
    
    
• Networking opportunities and mission of identification of best practices for university management
  • Participation to the 2017 EFMD Annual conference on “Trends, Technology and Transition” and exchange of best practices on innovation techniques at city level (June 2017)
  • Participation to the XXII Congress of the Latin-American Public Administration Centre for Development (CLAD) on State reforms and Public Administration (November 2017)
  • Participation to the 2017 Agro-sciences Congress on “Impact of International Collaboration for Local Development” (November 2017)
  • Participation to the 2018 EFMD Annual conference on “Education 4.0: New Jobs, New Skills, New Education” and exchange of best practices on innovation techniques at regional level (June 2018)
  • Round-table in the framework of the XI International Congress on Business management and Public Administration (July 2018)

Upcoming events:

• Workshop on innovation and creativity in management education in the University Central of Las Villas (October 2018) and University of Matanzas (November 2018)
• Study tour of 10 Cuban professors and HEI senior managers to facilitate networking and exchange of best practices with European creativity incubators (November 2018)
• 2019 Annual Alumni meeting (“Jornadas de continuidad”) on leadership, innovation and change management (April 2019)
• Mission of consolidation of the methodological cabinets and innovation centres (September 2018)
• Study tour of 5 Cuban Higher Education senior managers and on institutional communication (September 2018)
• Seminar on governmental policies for social inclusion and diversity (October 2018)
• Mission of identification of best practices on trainings for Higher Education managers (November 2018)
• 3rd part of the mission of Impact evaluation of international cooperation on university management (December 2018)
• 2nd part of the mission of preparation of the Cuban Case study book on management education (December 2018)
• Seminar on the development and management of Innovation centres (2019)
• Seminar on local entrepreneurship and local ecosystem (2019)

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Capacity building

What it covers

In line with the EFMD’s mission to promote and enhance excellence in management development internationally, capacity building projects are one of the core activities of EFMD. EFMD wants to share its knowledge to strengthen the ability of existing organisations in higher education across the world and to help them achieve their development objectives. One of the initiatives that stood at the beginning was the foundation of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), today one of the leading business schools in the world.

Main outcomes

• Regional quality assurance system in Central Asia
• Internationalisation of the curriculum: concepts and working practices in Isreal
• Regional quality assessment system in South Asia
• Quality assurance standards and procedures in Armenia and Georgia
• Strengthening quality assurance in Cuba and building cooperation between Europe and Cuba

Projects

FORINT

About the Project

FORINT: Fortalecimiento de la
internacionalización entre las universidades
europeas y latinoamericanas

One of the outcomes of the FORGEC project and of the close cooperation between EFMD, Cuban universities and the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education for the FORGEC project, has been the development of an initiative for strengthening the collaboration between Cuban Universities and their European counterparts.

This proposal, submitted under the Erasmus + call 2016 has been favourably evaluated and the EU selected it for funding.

EFMD formed a consortium of seven Cuban institutions (six universities and the Ministry of Higher Education), two Panamanian universities and five European business schools and Higher Education Institutions to develop strategies for developing international programmes, research and for preparing the institutions for effective academic cooperation between Europe and Latin America.

During its three-year duration, the project FORINT aims at:

1. Integrating the international dimension in the teaching, research, management and services of Cuban and Panamanian universities;
2. Creating the capacity in the 6 Cuban and the 2 Panamanian institutions to facilitate their internationalisation;
3. Developing operational links among the higher education institutions in European Union, Cuba and Panama;
4. Strengthening the capacities to network effectively between Cuban / Panamanian HEIs;
5. Providing easier access for the European HEIs to Cuba and Panama (visibility, information sessions in conferences, etc.).

Since October 2016, the project has achieved the following results:

• More than 150 Latin American university senior managers took part in one of the seven capacity-building seminars organized in Europe and Latin America on HEI management, International Cooperation & Regionalisation or International Accreditation;
• 9 awareness-building events in each partner institution to promote the project’s results and facilitate the adoption of the internationalization methodology developed through the project;
• 8 self-assessment reports on the current status of internationalization, opportunities for development and challenges in each participating HEI;
• 6 international conferences with dedicated session on the project attended by the project partners in Latin America and Europe.

For more information, please consult the FORINT project’s website or contact the EFMD team.

Download the The FORINT Leaflet (PDF)

EFMD announces two call for tenders (see "invitation to tender") to award two contracts for supply of equipment for Cuban universities and supply of equipment for Panamanian universities. Deadline for submission for both tenders is 15/06/2018 17:00h CEST. 

Presentation of the project FORINT (in Italian):

Strengthening Leadership and Strategic Management in Higher Education in Ethiopia

About the Project

The University Leadership and Management Capacity Development Project (ULMCD) is a multi-year programme geared towards strengthening of the higher education sector in Ethiopia, in the broader framework of economic and societal development policies to meet the quantitative and qualitative demand for a trained labour force.

Through the Higher Education Strategy Centre in Addis Ababa (HESC), 13 New Public Universities (NPUs) are being provided with training by an international consortium of the Maastricht School of Management (MSM, Lead Partner), the International Centre for development Oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA), and EFMD which took over some of the activities of ESMU from April 2013.

Beyond the actual training delivery, the aim of the project is the institutionalisation of knowledge and resources on leadership and management within the Ethiopian higher education sector. The main purpose is to update and prepare senior administrators in the new Ethiopian universities on current trends and innovations in Higher Education worldwide, and their relevance for, and possible application in, Ethiopian Higher Education.

EFMD role in the project is to deliver a series of exposure visits (Europe), one-week training programmes in Ethiopia (e.g. quality assurance, financial management, research management), as well as consulting/coaching for Ethiopian universities.