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Coordinator University: SAKARYA UNIVERSITY

Partner Universities: University College Lillebaelt, Catholic University College of Limburg, Liepaja University, Pädagogishe Hochschule Wien, Pädagogishe Hochschule Heidelberg.  

RELEVANCE FOR THE OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME AND THE PRIORITIES IN THE CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Main objective(s) of the programme  

• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of student and teaching staff mobility throughout Europe, so as to contribute to the achievement by 2012 of at least 3 million individual participants in student mobility under the Erasmus programme and its predecessor programmes;
• To improve the quality and to increase the volume of multilateral cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe; 
• To facilitate the development of innovative practices in education and training at tertiary level, and their transfer, including from one participating country to others;
• To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning.

Priorities

• Focus on subject areas which do not readily lend themselves to extended periods of study abroad for their students Are a part of integrated programmes of study leading to recognised double or joint degrees
• Present a strong multidisciplinary approach
• Respond to demonstrated needs and challenges at European level (including the needs of enterprises) and contribute to the dissemination of knowledge in rapidly evolving and new areas
• Use ICT tools and services to support the preparation and follow-up of the IP, thereby contributing to the creation of a sustainable learning community in the subject area concerned.Sakarya University will take an active part in shaping and developing this project.

Sakarya University will accommodate partner universities between 01-12 March 2010. The subtitles of IP that are planned are presented below

•  Training to teachers for environment protection and sustainable use of national and international resources in multicultural environment
• The effects of instructional technology on multicultural environment
•  The effects of sport education on cultural and intercultural interaction
• The effects of multicultural environment in special education practices
• The role of national and universal values on multicultural environment
• Intercultural interaction on science and technology development
• Effects of language on cultural and multicultural environment
• Citizenship education on multicultural environment
• Development of instructional curricula for multicultural environment

Participants

University and Country	Teachers	Students
Catholic University College of Limburg Belgium	Rudi Boelen Bruno Gevaert Karen Vanalken	Saartje Dessers Heidi Hollon Steffi Kloos Vicki Pinckers Elke Fourbert Franka Schepens
University College Lillebaelt Denmark	Pia Pettersson Jens Peter Christiansen Jørgen Skaastrup	Kamal Alkassem Raminta Kupsyte Jens Friis
Liepaja University Latvia	Vineta Trumsina Kristine Niedre Vintra Puke	Janis Strungs Aleksey Kozlow Maksim Bogdanow Jewgenija Skorayja Janis Bilaks
Sakarya University Turkey	Prof. Vahdettin Sevinc Prof. Dr. Aytekin Isman Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Eskicumalı Assist. Prof. Dr. Mubin Kiyici Assist. Prof. Dr. Özcan Erkan Akgün Lecturer Selçuk Sırrı Tercan Lecturer Aydın Kiper Lecturer Onur İşbulan	Ebru Özen Eda Demirhan Tuğba Demirtaş Serhat Arslan Fatma Başaran Zeliha Demir Kaymak Özlem Canan Güngören
Pädagogishe Hochschule Wien Austria	Brigitte Roth Gerhard Atschko	Anja Hofstädter Mirjam Pölzl Petra Prandstötter Regina Brandstetter Verena Braunschmidt Patricia Löwy
Pädagogishe Hochschule Heidelberg Germany	Sylvia Selke	Anselm Breier, Marcel Puntheller, Isabell Pfeiffer, Dorothee Mader, Claudia Kaufmann Marie Hoffmann.