Реферат: Proposal of joint european project CHAIN-E

· Organizes coordination meetings of the managers of works.

· Realizes interaction with the foreign partners - participants of the projects.

· Realizes planning and monitoring the course of realization of the project.

· Elaborates the reports (intermediate and final).

· Represents outcomes of the project to a wide academic public.

· Organizes international and regional conferences, seminars and meetings.

· Realizes developing and issuing of the newsletters.

· Carries out the accumulation and systematization of materials on the results of foreign training periods and of the employees of the consortium universities.

· Organizes sending and receiving of the official invitations.

· Realizes communication with embassies and consulates to settle problems of visa support.

· Organizes visa maintenance to the foreigners in Ekaterinburg.

· Helps in registration of the passports, insurance and other necessary documents for departure abroad.

· Helps in booking of the travel tickets and hotels.

· Organizes residing, feed and leisure of the foreign visitors to university.

· Creates information and methodical databases for elaboration of social-cultural programs both for the foreign visitors, and for the university employees and students departing abroad.

· Organizes cultural information maintenance concerning country of stay for students the university employees departing abroad.

· Organizes a supply.

· Realizes print-design works of the department.

· Organizes text translations.

· Provides serviceable operation of all kinds of communication (telephone, fax, mail, DHL post, e-mail).

· Realizes the collection of the financial documents (invoices, waybills, travel tickets) and their registration in the correspondence with requirements of the project.

· Realizes planning and monitoring expenditures of financial assets of the project.

· Elaborates the financial report on the expenditures of grant money.

· Conducts accounting and remittances in various currencies.

· Inspects and adjusts the use of financial assets of the university by the department.

Thus, the international departments of both Ural, and European universities bear responsibility for the most general organizational aspects of the realization of the project: operative-circumspect activity, planning, monitoring and reporting, distribution of outcomes of works, technical support of the mobility, publishing works, supply and financial management.

The inclusive aspects of the project concerning development of higher economic education, tutoring at foreign universities and academic recognition of study periods, and also individual problems of organization of mobility are assigned to Regional Centre for Student Exchanges (Vagant Center) of the USVPU, which bears responsibility for the fulfillment of the following functions:

· Introduction of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in the Ural universities; the guaranteed carrying out of the obligations of universities on observance the ECTS principles and mechanisms while its using among Russian institutions as well as while international student exchanges;

· Rendering of the methodical and organizational assistance while introduction ECTS in the Ural universities; rendering of organizational and information support to the institutional ECTS-coordinators beginning the introduction of the ECTS; involving of academic staff in a procedure of credit allocation among subjects of the curricula;