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ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN COOPERATION THROUGH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION PROJECTS
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The higher education providers play a main role in facilitating the acquisition of valuable skills and international experiences for their students, fostering the attractiveness and international dimension of education, and bridging Europe's knowledge, skills and competences gap. Within this sphere, the Erasmus+ programme represents one of the most powerful investment tools of the EU in the field of education and training. It aims to strengthen the European identity based on meaningful contributions which target a wide range of cooperation between institutions and organizations from different field in a joint attempt to innovate ways to support learners in their personal, educational and professional development. The paper is focused on one of the key action area targeting cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices through the Erasmus + programme, as significant means to support the European cooperation in education and training for the period up to 2020. The methodology of the paper entails a secondary literature research on the current challenges related to the projects undertaken in the field of higher education (HE) and within the frame of Erasmus+ programme. Secondarily, the authors performed a comparative analysis of strategic partnership for higher education projects within European Union (EU) countries, identifying the most performer countries and the frequency of good practices projects. Finally, in the attempt to explain the difference between countries? performance, the authors drew up several findings related to models of good practices with respect to European cooperation through strategic partnership for HE projects.
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