ENSURING SUSTAINABILITY

TEMPUS FINAL CONFERENCE,

23-25 SEPTEMBER

SUSTAINABILITY – THE 3 ES:

Culture

http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/the-three-es-of-sustainability/

WHEN?

TEMPUS PROJECTImplementation

period- Present -

TEMPUS PROJECT

Ending period- Present -

SUSTAINABILITYFurther maintenance /

development- Future -

SUSTAINABILITY? - PROJECT ORIENTED -

Outcomes of the project continue after the end of EU funding

Relevant activities are pursued and outputs are maintained or developed after the end of the EU funding

e.g.: continuing the courses

A SUSTAINABLE PROJECT:

Maintains and develops the outcomes, goals and products

Creates new outcomes and products

Institutionalizes the process

Enlarges and intensifies the cooperation

A NON-SUSTAINABLE PROJECT:

Maintains staff positions

Maintains all activities

Depends on grant funding

SUSTAINABILITY – FACTORS?

Project-level Context-level

Project-level factors:

Quality – Project design

Partners-Searching

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Partners - Involvement

Management and

leadership

Active audience

Securing funding for continuation

SUSTAINABILITY – FACTORS?

SUSTAINABILITY – FACTORS?

Context-level factors:

Academic

support

National Support

Socio-economic support

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

- Real needs of the target group- Long-term market trends- Close involvement of the PC institutions in the design period- Innovation

- New ideas Reforms/ Improvements

Level of risk implied

- Risk and needs analysis

PROJECT DESIGN

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

Sources of partners’ motivation; mutual benefits;

Group the team;

Dedicated staff; project work career

opportunities

Balanced and continuous involvement

Participative management, clear decision-making

procedures, regular reporting

New project perspectives for the partners

INVOLVMENT

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW? Manager: - experience in international projects

- Compatibility – time, field, reliability - : work in the project

– institutional work

Influent / important persons in the design part – promote

innovation

Clear roles and responsibilities

Feedback from: National Tempus Coordinators, external

advisers, partners;

Dissemination to most influential top-level bureaucrats;

Quality procedures in line with Western academic practices;

Anticipate staff turnover and create capacities for other

potential staff.

MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

Cultural and creative planning – preventing the cultural barriers to participation;

Participation of students and target publics in the implementation of activities (dissemination, tutoring new participants, building a website, etc.).

Symbolic rewards to the most committed ones (e.g. article in the newsletter).

ACTIVE AUDIENCE

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

Which activities need to be sustainable? Their cost?

Who will sustain your project?

- Private / public institutions

- Establishing formal agreements

Lobby

Expensive activities – few costs

Alternatives: e-learning courses, videoconferences,

local rather than EU experts, etc.

Attractive curriculum – tuition fees for students

SECURING RESOURCES

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

Which types of activity can benefit from university

support (material, financial and human)?

- formal commitment regarding resource allocation;

Project attractive for the university strategy;

Top managers – active involved;

Publicize the project: enhances added value for

institutions (e.g. leaflets, newspaper interviews)

ACADEMIC SUPPORT

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

Opportunities and threats for future

accreditation;

Attractiveness and future visibility for national

and academic bodies;

Individual contacts with members of the

Ministries and other important authorities.

NATIONAL SUPPORT

SUSTAINABILITY – HOW?

Support from local (private or public) actors to

ensure the project’s sustainability;

Cultural gaps or economic impediments to socio-

economic support;

SOCIO-ECONOMICSUPPORT

THANK YOU!

Catalina Brinza

Babes – Bolyai University,

Center for Health Policy and Public Health

c.branza@gmail.com