Thursday, November 29, 2007

AUSTRIA SUPPORTS HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM IN BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (November 29,2007) – The Austrian government has been successfully implementing the project entitled “Support to the Higher Education in Bosnia”. The projects so far implemented are worth 1,5 million Bosnian Marks.

The project is financed through Austrian Development Cooperation and through the World University Service.Results will be officially presented in Sarajevo on November 30. The “Course Development Program +” (CDP+) and “eLearning-eContent Program” awards will be presented as well.

The Austrian Ambassador to Bosnia Werner Almhofer will present the awards to the most successful of students and will address the participants.In the two years of successful realization of the projects, 39 courses at all universities in Bosnia have been successfully modified and aligned with the Bologna Process.

The program worth 600.000 Bosnian Marks has been introduced as a measure of support in the process of aligning the Bosnian courses with the Bologna standards.

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