What is European Tempus project Sigmus? The Project SIGMUS is designed to strengthen the role of students in governance and management at the Universities of Serbia in line with the Bologna process. The project is one of the National priorities for Structural Measures for Serbia in the area of Governance Reform – University management and student services.
Strengthening of student representative bodies will be made through detailed planning of capacity building of the student representative bodies. Establishment and development of student services at Serbian Universities is another important task of the project. The project results will be nation-wide disseminated, but will be also available to the higher education institutions in the area. Having in mind that the project is of high national priority, it has full support from all Serbian Universities, as well as from the Ministry of Education and the National Council for Higher Education; this is the best guarantee for sustainability of the project beyond its duration.
Project background In the previous years the higher education reform in the Republic of Serbia has been conducted entirely in the spirit of the Bologna Process and has encompassed the principal aspects of this Process, including:
After the adoption of the Law on Higher Education in 2005, Serbia started a new phase of the HE reform in line with the Bologna declaration and the best practices in EU. However, universities have primarily been focused on reforming curricula and the university governance and management structure. The place, role and responsibility of students in the reform of higher education in Serbia have been recognized, but not yet clearly defined. |
Main Project Characteristics The national importance of a Project designed to upgrade the legal framework:
Specific objectives of the project
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