Erasmus+ Project of Italy in partnership with Iranian universities accepted

Title of the Project:  Modernization and internationalization of Iranian HEIs via collaborative TEL-based curriculum development in engineering and STEM

According  to UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI GUGLIELMO MARCONI, Italy, in association with The University of Turku in Finland and Open University in Portugal , the  Erasmus+ : Higher Education-International Capacity Building proposal in partnership with Iranian Universities (University of Tehran, Sharif University of Technology, Imam  Khomeini International University , Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Univerfsity of Sistan and Baluchestan , Shiraz University and University of Isfahan)  has been accepted by European Commission. Moreover, the Evaluation Committee has confirmed the feasibility of the project in the local contest.

The selection decision is based on the quality of the application, its relative position in comparison to the other applications submitted and the budget available. Applications were assessed on a scale from 0 to 100 and were ranked by Region according to merit.

The selection decision took into account the geographical balance within a Region in terms of the number of projects per country (within the limits of the available budget), the need to ensure that the overall results of the selection guarantees a sufficient coverage of the priorities of the Action and the respect of the condition that an applicant organization cannot receive more than three grants under a CBHE call.

Finally, the application has been selected for EU co-funding.

Out of the 1005 applications submitted 164 have been selected for funding and 20 have been placed on a reserve list.