National Tempus / Erasmus+
Office in Ukraine

This event is organised within the framework of the European Union Tempus Programme, which is funded by the EuropeAid Development and Co-operation Directorate-General and the Directorate-General for Enlargement of the European Commission. It is organised under the auspices of Mr. Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, and Dr. Žarko Obradović, Minister of Education, Republic of Serbia.

The aim of this conference is to look back over the past 20 year of the Tempus programme and highlight its success.

250 participants have been invited including Ministers of Education and Foreign Affairs from the 27 EU Member States and 28 Tempus Partner Countries outside the EU, representatives from the Ministry of Education, Serbia, where the event will take place, representatives from the European Commission and other international organisations active in the field of higher education. Representatives from the National Tempus Offices in the Tempus Partner Countries and National Contact Points in the EU Member States have also been invited, as well as 20 project beneficiaries, who will present examples of good practice.

Working language: English (with translation into French, German, Arabic, Russian, Serbian and vice-versa).

Details available at: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/tempus/events/tempus_20_ministerial_conference.php

Belgrade, 29 March 2011, 20th Anniversary Conference of the Tempus Programme

It is a great pleasure to be present with you here in Belgrade and to welcome participants at the 20th Anniversary conference of the Tempus programme.

I feel honoured to open this event, which gathers participants from more than fifty countries on three different continents from Rabat to Vladivostok.

I would also like to thank the Serbian authorities for their support in organising this conference, attended by high-level representatives of the Tempus partner countries.

As the Commissioner responsible for both the enlargement and neighbourhood policy of the European Union, I consider international cooperation in higher education a vital instrument in both policies.

All-Ukrainian Tempus Information Day was held in Kyiv, on December 15, 2010. This seminar was organized jointly by the National Tempus Office in Ukraine (NTO) and National Transport University, with support from the EU Delegation to Ukraine, EACEA, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, and National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.

The event commenced with greetings by Mykola Dmytriev, Vice-Rector of the National Transport University. In his address he urged the participants to discuss and further explore the opportunities offered by the EU educational programs for modernization of higher education in Ukraine. Later Mykola Dmytriev summarized successful experience of the National Transport University’s participation in Tempus Program and presented University achievements in education programs modernization, infrastructure development, students and teachers international mobility thanks to Tempus projects support.

8-9 December 2010. NTO/NCPs meeting, training on Erasmus Mundus. Updates on the latest developments within EACEA as for Tempus, new calls, studies, NTO renewal procedures etc. Training on Erasmus Mundus.