University of Crete Department of Political Science Centre for Political Research and Documentation Governance for Sustainable Development Professor Kostas A. Lavdas London, 11/12 May 2011

University of Crete team Prof. Kostas A. Lavdas: manager and member of scientific team, UoC coordinator Prof. Dimitrios Kotroyannos: head of scientific team Prof. Christos Lionis: member of scientific team Assoc. Prof. Maria Mendrinou: member of scientific team Eleftheria Alefandinou, MA: support staff, financial matters

UoC management Meetings with UoC team for assigning tasks / clarifying points Coordination with UoC Research Account Office (ELKE: authorized UoC office for administering payments of GAVA project): - finalizing rates according to UoC and GAVA project rules (problems at UoC due to the institutions’ changes in its rates policy). Rates according to the employment profile of each team member

Rates in UoC - Professor Euros per day - Associate Professor Euros per day - Administrative Euros per day

- discussed timesheet document with UoC Research Account office -deduction from UoC Research Account at 7% (as indirect costs) -clarified VAT matters (UoC is unable to cover VAT) trasfers between staff categories

Dissemination of GAVA project in: - Department of Political Science - Greek universities’ International Relations Offices annual meetings - UoC ’s to all-users - website of UoC International Relations Office

stakeholders with E. Alefandinou, compilation of exhaustive lists of potential stakeholders in Greece: - 91 enterprises professionals (incl. academics) - 34 Research Institutes – foundations - 58 Associations & civil society organizations - 11 Chambers of Commerce etc - 9 Political Parties - 40 NGOs

Proposal for further dissemination Upload GAVA info to the following online platforms: - WISHES. It is a project developed by several European Universities as members of the Erasmus Mundus Programme. Nowadays their primary aim is to establish a new mobility portal for the university students who want to study abroad :

- the web's largest database of Master's programmes in Europe: new database of PhD programmes in Europe: - European campus project: Project in the framework of the 'Erasmus Mundus Action 4. Enhancing attractiveness (it’s about enhancing overseas student mobility):

GAVA survey Introduced GAVA to UoC regular and exchange students and invited them to take part in GAVA survey - distributed questionnaires to students and uploaded them manually Introduced GAVA to UoC professors & staff and invited them to take part in GAVA survey Introduced GAVA to UoC and other institution’s employees and invited them to take part in GAVA survey

GAVA Curriculum Development Meetings with scientific team Assigned parts of pillars “Governance Effectiveness” and “Public Health (e- health)” according to the expertise of each member of the team: Kostas A. Lavdas: coordinating the team / preparing modules on the links between common-pool resource management and governance effectiveness / innovation in public policy / case studies

Dimitrios Kotroyannos: researching bibliography, programmes, practice / preparing modules on the links between good governance & sustainable development / the ethical dimensions of government effectiveness Maria Mendrinou: preparing modules on the quality of governance / impact assessment of public policies / case studies Christos Lionis: preparing modules on public health / e-health

Accreditation processes Greek law 3685/ applies: - Consortium agreement written in Greek and in English and signed by all partners. It determines, in broad terms, academic and practical issues: 1. subject and purpose of the joint degrees, 2. rights and obligations of teachers and students,

3. establishment of committee for the management of the joint degree, 5. the duration of the degree, 6. teaching language and thesis language, 7. the number of students accepted, 8. issues pertaining to mobility, 9. the degree awarded (multiple or double),

10. description of the curriculum in general, 11. issues pertaining to secretarial support, 12. the venue where the courses will take place, 13. financial resources, and, finally, 14. any issues resulting from participating countries’ s laws. At UoC there are roughly similar agreements for joint doctorates (not MAs)

After all partners sign the 2 Consortium Agreements (for the MA and for the doctoral degree), the UoC team will present GAVA in the General Assembly of the Department of Political Science for formal approval This approval will be sent to UoC’ s postgraduate committee which will report on it to the Senate of the University of Crete. This final body will take the final decision on the new degrees

These decisions, along with a draft of a ministerial decision, which the UoC team will prepare, plus the internal and external evaluation reports of the Department of Political Science, will be sent to the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs (authorized accreditation body in Greece) for final, formal approval.

Challenges Although the aforementioned approval was a formality in the past, Greece’s Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs has not approved new Master’s or PhD programmes for over a year now Making the post-graduate degrees available to students from many non- European countries (see Needs Assessment report)