University of Crete
Department of Political Science
Centre for Political Research and
Documentation
Governance for Sustainable Development
Professor Kostas A. Lavdas
London, 11/12 May 2011
University of Crete team
• Prof. Kostas A. Lavdas: manager and member
of scientific team, UoC coordinator
• Prof. Dimitrios Kotroyannos: head of scientific
team
• Prof. Christos Lionis: member of scientific team
• Assoc. Prof. Maria Mendrinou: member of
scientific team
• Eleftheria Alefandinou, MA: support staff,
financial matters
UoC management
• Meetings with UoC team for assigning
tasks / clarifying points
• Coordination with UoC Research Account
Office (ELKE: authorized UoC office for
administering payments of GAVA project):
- finalizing rates according to UoC and
GAVA project rules (problems at UoC due
to the institutions’ changes in its rates
policy). Rates according to the
employment profile of each team member
Rates in UoC
- Professor 221.00 Euros per day
- Associate Professor 187.00 Euros per day
- Administrative 89.70 Euros per day
- discussed timesheet document with UoC
Research Account office
- deduction from UoC Research Account at
7% (as indirect costs)
- clarified VAT matters (UoC is unable to
cover VAT)
• trasfers between staff categories
Dissemination of GAVA project in:
- Department of Political Science
- Greek universities’ International
Relations Offices annual meetings
- UoC ’s email to all-users
- website of UoC International Relations
Office
stakeholders
• with E. Alefandinou, compilation of exhaustive
lists of potential stakeholders in Greece:
- 91 enterprises
- 353 professionals (incl. academics)
- 34 Research Institutes – foundations
- 58 Associations & civil society organizations
- 11 Chambers of Commerce etc
- 9 Political Parties
- 40 NGOs
Proposal for further dissemination
Upload GAVA info to the following online
platforms:
- WISHES. It is a project developed by
several European Universities as
members of the Erasmus Mundus
Programme. Nowadays their primary aim
is to establish a new mobility portal for the
university students who want to study
abroad : www.eu-wishes.eu
- the web's largest database of Master's
programmes in Europe:
http://www.mastersportal.eu/
- new database of PhD programmes in
Europe:
http://www.phdportal.eu/
- European campus project: Project in the
framework of the 'Erasmus Mundus Action
4. Enhancing attractiveness (it’s about
enhancing overseas student mobility):
http://europeancampus.eu/
GAVA survey
• Introduced GAVA to UoC regular and
exchange students and invited them to take
part in GAVA survey
- distributed questionnaires to students and
uploaded them manually
• Introduced GAVA to UoC professors & staff
and invited them to take part in GAVA survey
• Introduced GAVA to UoC and other
institution’s employees and invited them to
take part in GAVA survey
GAVA Curriculum Development
• Meetings with scientific team
• Assigned parts of pillars “Governance
Effectiveness” and “Public Health (ehealth)” according to the expertise of each
member of the team:
• Kostas A. Lavdas: coordinating the team /
preparing modules on the links between
common-pool resource management and
governance effectiveness / innovation in
public policy / case studies
• Dimitrios Kotroyannos: researching
bibliography, programmes, practice /
preparing modules on the links between
good governance & sustainable
development / the ethical dimensions of
government effectiveness
• Maria Mendrinou: preparing modules on
the quality of governance / impact
assessment of public policies / case
studies
• Christos Lionis: preparing modules on
public health / e-health
Accreditation processes
•
Greek law 3685/16-7-2008 applies:
- Consortium agreement written in Greek
and in English and signed by all partners.
It determines, in broad terms, academic
and practical issues:
1. subject and purpose of the joint
degrees,
2. rights and obligations of teachers and
students,
3. establishment of committee for the
management of the joint degree,
5. the duration of the degree,
6. teaching language and thesis language,
7. the number of students accepted,
8. issues pertaining to mobility,
9. the degree awarded (multiple or double),
10. description of the curriculum in
general,
11. issues pertaining to secretarial
support,
12. the venue where the courses will take
place,
13. financial resources, and, finally,
14. any issues resulting from participating
countries’ s laws.
• At UoC there are roughly similar
agreements for joint doctorates (not MAs)
• After all partners sign the 2 Consortium
Agreements (for the MA and for the
doctoral degree),
• the UoC team will present GAVA in the
General Assembly of the Department of
Political Science for formal approval
• This approval will be sent to UoC’ s
postgraduate committee which will report
on it to the Senate of the University of
Crete. This final body will take the final
decision on the new degrees
•
These decisions, along with a draft of a
ministerial decision, which the UoC team
will prepare, plus the internal and
external evaluation reports of the
Department of Political Science, will be
sent to the Ministry of Education, Lifelong
Learning and Religious Affairs
(authorized accreditation body in
Greece) for final, formal approval.
Challenges
• Although the aforementioned approval
was a formality in the past, Greece’s
Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning
and Religious Affairs has not approved
new Master’s or PhD programmes for
over a year now
• Making the post-graduate degrees
available to students from many nonEuropean countries (see Needs
Assessment report)