Albania

Albania has partnerships on a bilateral level, mostly in exchange visit and expertise  between university staff. Cooperation with  Southeast European Universities is at a good level, but there is room for cooperation in other fields of higher education. Albania has focused its     cooperation on Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, Italy and Macedonia but there is increased    cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Romania and Turkey. Albania’s projects are mostly EU financed projects in the framework of Tempus and Erasmus Projects.

Best Practice

Entrepreneurship and Local Economic  
Development in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia

The aim of this project are:

• to develop the capacity of partner country universities to serve the needs of society at large (both state institutions and private sector) by strengthening their links with the labour market and    offering programmes promoting entrepreneurship.
• Develop an academic programme in Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development (LED) jointly taught by universities in each partner country. 
• Develop a training programme in Entrepreneurship for relevant state and local government  institutions, also jointly delivered by universities in each partner country.  
• Establish and consolidate the three-cycle Bologna system together with Quality Assurance procedures and ECTS.
• Improve the human capacity of partner country universities by providing upgrading opportunities for their assistants in EU partner universities.

The direct target groups of this Project are the staff of the nine partner country institutions,     particularly the younger assistants, students of the new Masters Programme in Entrepreneurship and LED, management personnel of partner enterprises, and staff of ministries, municipalities, chambers of commerce participating in the Training Programme in Entrepreneurship.

The Project will develop the relationship   between universities, enterprises, chambers of commerce and the relevant public sector  institutions (at national or municipal level) in each country by bringing them together in the process of identifying the specific needs of the labour market and the specific training needs of public sector employees, and preparing the MA Programme and the Training Programme.

Partners Universities:

Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana

 

Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural

University of Tirana

Faculty of Economics, University of Elbasan

Faculty of Economics, University of Prishtina

AAB-Riinvest University

South East European University

Faculty of Economics , State University of Tetovo

Faculty of Economics – Prilep, University of Bitola

Faculty of Economics , "Goce Delcev" University - Stip      

and some European Partners

Regional Master Program in EU Business Law   

The participating Law Faculties from South Eastern Europe are offering a 1-year postgraduate programme leading to a Master's Degree in EU   Business Law. The programme is designed to achieve two principal aims: to provide the  knowledge for answering fundamental and advanced questions underlying the European integration process and to offer a progressive and increasing specialization in the vast field of European Business Law, with a view to enabling students to deal with legal questions in a practical way.

           The legal focus of the programme is on the broader ambit of European integration, also touching upon different economic and political aspects of the integration process and duly considering their legal and practical implications. Thereby, education in EU Business Law matters will be advanced and will   contribute to extending the profile and the pool of professionals, acquainted with EU Business Law and therefore competent, to actively participate in the implementation of the Acquis.                

   The programme will serve to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of legal issues related to the accession of the countries and the region to the EU, and to encourage professionals to develop a critical awareness of EU Business Law with a solid background in European law and policies, combined with the opportunity to refine their interests by way of specially designed electives. The programme   culminates in an independent piece of research, the dissertation, on which students work under the close supervision of a member of faculty. The academic institutions participating in this programme identified and developed common curricula which will be   implemented by each institution, thereby enabling the mobility of professors and students.  

Partner Universities: 

Faculty of Law, University of Tirana

Faculty of Law, University “Đemal Bijedić” Mostar

Faculty of Law, University of Mostar

Faculty of Law, University of Banja Luka

Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo

Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka

Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus", University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje

Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica

Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac