TEMPUS QATMI experience of Zaporizhzhya National University

Internationalization of higher education tool for promotes provides establishing transparent quality assurance standards equal possibilities both for central and provincial institutions establishing transparent quality assurance standards equal possibilities both for central and provincial institutions financial support

 treating grant support as “professional begging”  denying transparency of evaluation procedures  considering grant writing as an activity suitable for research units only The most popular stereotypes concerning grant-writing activity in Ukraine are:

 lack of awareness and motivation  lack of proper coordination and training for faculty and staff  poor time management (academic overload)

 Director;  Accountant;  Grant Coordinators;  additional positions that may include business managers, graduate and undergraduate assistants etc. + the most troublesome parts of grant project running – managing budget and reporting deadlines – are being put under control of specially appointed officers _ “multiple hats” problem

PROVIDING PROVIDING SEEKING CREATING AND MAINTAINING COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING Internationalization of higher education consultations and support (including translation services) to groups and individuals willing to submit a project proposal grant support for its own functioning and some activities of International Office on-line database on different means of grant support as well as partner search database experience in project writing via trainings, workshops, seminars and conferences both on local and national level

 2 grant coordinators, both of whom can act as translators  a special person in accountants’ office is appointed to provide help to Grant-Writing Office with calculating projects’ budgets

 personal approach  “every effort counts”  early start: students’ involvement

 Pilot Project “Quality Assurance Office at the Faculty of Journalism” (Carnegy Foundation)  Centre of European Information in ZNU Scientific Library (International Renaissance Foundation)  Swiss-Ukrainian Centre for Children  Pilot Project “Interactive Means of Teaching English in Secondary Schools” (British Council, Cambridge University Press)  Pilot Project “ZNU Grant Writing Centre” (Carnegie Foundation)