The landscape of higher education across Europe is changing as universities are becoming more international. In fact, the integration of internationalisation in all aspects of higher education institutions is considered an important key to success.

In this context, the UniWelIS project, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, has launched a new survey to collect evidence and data on mobility experiences and support needs in the region of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Coordinated by the Slovak Academic Information Agency, UniWelIS brings together the Academic Cooperation Association, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, the University of Nis, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and Comenius University in Bratislava.

The results of this study will prepare the design of practical tools supporting the successful integration of international academics in these countries. They will be beneficial for future mobile academics and will help improve academic staff mobility opportunities and services in the region of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

What are Welcome services?

Aimed to make teaching and research more international, welcome services and development of professional capacities are at the core of the UniWelIS project. Its overall goal is to create practical tools for the attention of CESE universities, so they enhance their welcoming capacities of academics and PhD students coming from all over the world.

In the long-term, these tools are expected to benefit future mobile academics and contribute to the improvement of academic staff mobility opportunities and services in the CESE region.

Who should take the survey?

• International PhD researchers and students who currently work or study (or have been working and studying in the past five years) at a higher education institution in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia or Slovakia.
• International researchers, lecturers and PhD students who are currently on a three-month or longer visit (or in the past five years) to a higher education institution in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia or Slovakia.
• International researchers and lecturers who are currently employed (or have been employed in the past five years) by a higher education institution in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia or Slovakia.

Please complete the survey by 15 April 2021.

Any questions? Contact Veronika Kupriyanova (veronika.kupriyanova(at)aca-secretariat.be).

More information

Check out the UniWelIS project website.

Read the leaflet about the survey.pdf conducted by the UniWelIS project

Read the leaflet about the uniwelis.pdf project