MANAGEMENT OF

GRANTS AND APPLICATIONS

The national agencies coordinate and promote the programmes. Inaddition to providing information to grantholders and potentialapplicants, TPF also provides personal consultation. It is also thenational agencies' task to conclude grant contracts with applicants.

● EVALUATION

TPF does the preparation of the selection of centralizedapplications that is then finalised by the EuropeanCommission. TPF performs the formal assess-ment of the applications in decentralizedactions and then ensures the participationof experts in the content evaluation of theapplications.

● MONITORING

Providing high quality applications isone of the most important tasks of TPF.To achieve this, TPF tries to maintaincontinuous contact with new applicantsand provide preventive monitoring measuresto ensure the best possible implementation ofprojects.

TPF's activities are also aimed at disseminating best practice - thisis achieved through publications, events and information networks.

● PUBLICATIONS

TPF prepares regular publications (flyers, newsletters, manuals,yearbooks and magazines) in order to provide extensiveinformation adjusted to the needs of the different target groups. Aninteractive educational CD-ROM, Socrates Step by Step waspublished for the first time in 1999. The experiences gathered fromthis will be used in future educational publications.

INTERNET ●

TPF has been on the World Wide Web since its establishment. Allof its publications can be accessed on its website (www.tpf.iif.hu).This website has numerous links to the homepages of organizationsand institutions concerned with the European Union, educationand professional training.

EVENTS ●

In order to provide applicants with information and make currentgrants more successful, the TPF organizes approximately 50 events,

presentations, and training courses a year, while its colleaguesattend professional events as participants and speakers.

TPF regularly holds press conferences in order toprovide the media with information.

CEEPUS, SOCRATES/ERASMUS

AND TEMPUS NETWORKS ●

The higher education informationnetworks initiated and operated by theFoundation cover all of Hungarianhigher education. In the case of

CEEPUS, each organization has its ownCEEPUS co-ordinator, who ensures the

flow of information between TPF and theinstitution’s organizational units. In ERASMUS,

one institution submits one application: the flow ofinformation between the different projects is ensured by the

ERASMUS co-ordinator. In the case of TEMPUS, all contractors andco-ordinators are included in a network of app. 350-400 people.The six Regional TEMPUS Offices operating in the university townssupplement these networks.

TIB NETWORK ●

TIB (TEMPUS Institution Building) projects provide highereducational, government, and other non-profit institutions that are important in the accession to the EU with help in obtaining thenecessary theoretical and practical knowledge. Since the projects

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operate as consortia, they appear in smaller networks that are connected in a larger network.Hungary participates in 14 of these consortia with 60 participants, each backed up by entire institutional bodies.

The projects mobilise approximately 3,000 people.

● PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK

In addition to having direct contact with a large number of public education institutions, TPF operates an informationnetwork based on the 20 Pedagogical Institutes. This working relationship has proved to be very useful in the

case of COMENIUS and LINGUA programmes.

● CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

To ensure the success of information and dissemination activities, TPF strives for strategic co-operationwith other non-profit organizations sharing its profile (Ministry of Education, student governments,

government agencies, teachers' organisations and foundations).

THE FUTURE OF THE TEMPUS PUBLIC FOUNDATION

The achievements and the experiences accumulated by TPF in the past few years as well as thegreat number of tasks that can be expected with Hungary’s accession to the EU open up new and

important perspectives for the Foundation. Harmonising the co-ordination of its programmes will make it possibleto operate them more effectively and utilize the results more purposefully. The ALUMNI FOR EUROPE might

make the TPF the largest human resources development center in Central Europe within a few years.

secondaryschool through highereducation to continuing edu-cation including life long learningactivities. Hungary has been a full member ofthe programme since September 1, 1997.Institutions providing some form ofprofessional training in Hungary cansubmit applications for three kinds ofprojects. These are pilot projects(contributing to the development of theprofessional training systems in Hungaryand in the EU countries by creatingintellectual products), foreign on-the-jobtraining and/or exchange programmes, andsurvey and analysis projects.

In 1997 and 1998, 28 Hungarian institutionscoordinated projects and 150 Hungarian institutionswere partners in pilot projects. Furthermore, 60 institutionswon financial support for placement projects, giving mobility grantsfor more than 500 students and teachers.

● ALUMNI FOR EUROPE NETWORK

The ALUMNI FOR EUROPE interactive human resources andinformation network makes practical use of the human resour-ces generated through the TEMPUS, SOCRATES, LEONARDO

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VINCI and CEEPUS prog-

rammes. The network’sdatabase contains the data of young

professionals with exceptional abilities whohave done some of their studies abroad under the auspices ofthe EU educational or training programmes above and have,therefore, acquired special language and cultural skills in addition toprofessional knowledge. The database currently includes currentdata on app. 2,500 graduates and grantholders who have 1-4 yearsof professional experience. Companies interested in this service canaccess the database through the TPF’s Internet homepage and use itin accordance with their own needs. The database is constantlygrowing with the addition of data of new grantholders –approximately 800 people a year.

The TEMPUS Public Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit organizationwith the objective of developing Hungarian intellectual resources,modernizing education, introducing European standards ineducation and professional training, and promoting Hungary’saccession to the European Union.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Board of Trustees is the TPF's decision-making,representative and managing body. The founder, theGovernment of the Republic of Hungary, appointsthe Foundation’s president and members onthe basis of the recommendations of thedecision-making organizations ofHungarian university rectors andcollege directors and thesuggestions made by the

ministries and officesinvolved in Hungary's

accession to the Euro-pean Union.

The Supervisory Com-mittee inspects the

activities of TPF andof the Board of Trustees

on the basis of the annualreport and the auditing, and reports

to the founder on its findings at leastonce a year.

TPF's operational units are theprogramme offices – Hunga-

rian TEMPUS Office,Hungarian CEEPUS

Office, SOCRATES

National Agencyand Hungarian

LEONARDO Office. The programme offices are in daily contactwith the Hungarian and European institutions and professionalorganizations belonging to the programmes’ target groups, and theycooperate with the official bodies directing the programmes (e.g.the Commission of the European Union).

PROGRAMMES

TEMPUS ●

The TEMPUS programme of the European Union started in 1990 inorder to help the development and restructuring of higher

education in Central and Eastern Europe and promotecooperation with higher education institutions in

the European Union. To achieve its objectives,the programme financed the development

and improvement of hundreds of syllabiand curricula and the modernization ofequipment in colleges and universities inHungary. It also financed the academicmobility of approximately 7,000students and 8,000 professors. A total ofEUR 113.9 million (that is, approxi-

mately HUF 29 billion at the currentvalue) have been spent as part of the

programme for developing Hungarian highereducation. The programme gave financial assis-

tance to approximately 90% of Hungarian highereducation institutions.

TEMPUS’ exclusive purpose in its current phase (1998-2001) is thepromotion of the process of accession to the European Union bypreparing the managements and administrations of institutionalsystems and institutions of higher education. The TEMPUS JointEuropean Projects provide government agencies and public andnon-government organizations with support for institutionbuilding. The purpose of the support is to develop and carry outin-service training courses for officials who play an active role inthe accession process and work in central or local governmentadministration or in professional, public service or non-

governmental organizations. The in-service courses are to providethe target groups with the necessary theoretical and practicalknowledge for adopting and applying the "aquis communautaire".

Hungary will play an advisory role in the programme’s most recentphase, TEMPUS III (2000-2006).

● SOCRATES

The SOCRATES programme was adopted in 1995 on the initiative ofthe European Commission. Its objective is to contribute tothe development of the quality of education and todevelop a European dimension in education inthe participating countries. The programmeaims at all levels and actors of education,from kindergartens through publiceducation, colleges and universities toopen and distance providers andadult education institutions. In thefirst phase of the SOCRATES

programme, lasting until December31, 1999, institutions, instructors,and students will receive support formobility, curriculum developmentand other European educational co-operation activities. Hungary is a fullmember of SOCRATES since September 4,1997.

At present, 49% of Hungarian colleges anduniversities participate in ERASMUS, SOCRATES’ highereducation action. ERASMUS financed the mobility of 895 studentsand approximately 300 professors in 1998/99, while approximately400 students have come to Hungary from the European Union. Inthe academic year 1999/2000, the programme will grant about2,000 Hungarian students with approximately 10,000 scholarship-months.

So far, more than 200 Hungarian public education institutions havestarted COMENIUS 1 or LINGUA E projects; almost 300 teachers

participated in in-service training abroad under the LINGUA B orthe COMENIUS 3.2 actions; and 80 school directors or educationaldecision-makers took part in individual ARION study visits.

CEEPUS ●

The purpose of the CEEPUS (Central European ExchangeProgramme for University Studies) programme, launched in 1995,is to strengthen the professional relations between intellectuals inCentral Europe through mobility in higher education. Regionalcooperation has improved considerably as a result of visiting

teachers, student exchanges, and joint participation inlanguage and professional courses and summer

schools. The mobility in higher educationbetween the CEEPUS countries is well

balanced.

All the participating countries declarethe number of “scholarship-months”that they will fund in a given year;that is, the number of months forwhich foreign students andinstructors will be accommodated.The number of scholarship-months

that the participating countriesoffered for accommodating students

and professors has quadrupled since theprogramme began.

More than 2,000 Hungarian students haveparticipated in the exchange programmes since 1995.

The fact that 18 network applications with the participation of 79institutions won acceptance in the first year, while 52 networks willbe operating with the participation of 65 Hungarian partners in the1999/2000 academic year is indicative of the dynamic growth ofCEEPUS.

LEONARDO DA VINCI ●

The LEONARDO DA VINCI programme is the first programme inEurope to encompass the entire professional training system from