Two nursing students take online knowing by the river to discover a signal in Keutambang, Pante Ceuremen, West Aceh on August 26,2020 (Antara Photo/Syifa Yulinnas)
BY: JAYANTY NADA SHOFA
APRIL 28, 2021
Jakarta. The European Union, or EU, has extended its assistance for college in the Asean area up until completion of 2022, assisting keep running a program that allows trainees to get scholarships in or move in between universities throughout the region.
First launched in 2015, the EU Assistance to Higher Education in the Asean Region (Share) program helps with intra-mobility for students in Asean through credit transfer and scholarship plans. The EU-funded program also seeks to bolster the harmonization of higher education across Asean.
” The extension duration will support Asean higher education organizations and stakeholders to develop a sustainable Asean college area, drawing lessons from Europe’s experience in the Erasmus program and the Bologna Process,” EU ambassador to Asean Igor Driesmans informed an online interview on Tuesday.
In addition to the extension, the EU will pour another 5 million euros ($ 6 million) into the Share program budget plan, besides the initial financing of 10 million euros. As lots of as 300 students will also take advantage of the intraAsean scholarships by the end of next year.
” The EU has put human development, in specific education, at the heart of our collaboration. We wish to make sure youth and ladies are not only included but also empowered,” Igor said.
Asean’s socio-cultural deputy secretary-general Kung Phoak applauded the EU’s longstanding partnership to bolster Southeast Asia’s higher education.
As the program opens doors to a better labor force, Share’s two-year extension could pave the way towards greater recovery in the Asean area, he added.
At the conference, Kung Phoak also highlighted that Share’s objective of Asean’s college harmonization does not entail homogenizing nationwide systems.
” The focus is on exploring synergies, as well as advising policies and methods to boost connection and comparability of Asean’s college organizations,” he stated.
In The Middle Of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Share program will also engage in virtual exchanges.
” With physical mobility hampered, we are seeking to ideally renew physical mobility towards the end of the year, early in2022 In the meantime, we will be exploring the possibilities of virtual exchange and collective online worldwide knowing,” Share program group leader Darren McDermott stated.
Over the previous years, Share has actually assembled 11 policy discussions on college attended by policymakers, experts, and other stakeholders. The program has actually granted more than 550 scholarships to Asean trainees to study in an Asean or European university for a semester.
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