Proposal of joint european project CHAIN-E

university the preparation of masters is carried on in the field of an economic theory. Together with St.-Petersburg state university scientific and research work is carried on in the field of the international economic relations. With the foreign partners, for example, with Technical university of Munich (Germany) the research projects on a theme " International economy of the firm", and with University of state Illinois (USA) a common theme of researches " Market of labor " are executed. In USTU on faculties of the Analysis of systems and decision making and banking researches are conducted within the framework of the regional programme financed by the regional budget of Sverdlovsk region of the theme of the state budget N 2980 "Mathematical and computer modeling of economic-organizing systems "; grants of Ministry of Education of Russian Federation N 2992 "Theory and methodology of an evaluation of efficiency of the investments on the basis of mathematical methods of the theory of management (section economy) and N 97-0-1.9.68 "Theory of the guaranteed management and evaluation in the tasks of financial mathematics ", and also are supported by the grant of Russian fund of fundamental researches (PFBR) N 97-01-01003. USPU during many years participates in economic programmes of Sverdlovsk region on creation of economic culture in market conditions. Joint work by the grant with North-East Illinois university (USA) on the programme "Economic, social and cultural initiative. Russian-American partnership " USA N IA-AFJL-J4190526 was executed. Within two last years USUE has received positive experience of exchange of the students with university of Visbaden (Germany), and also with other mentioned before universities on a specialty « World economy ». These programs of students' exchanges of USUE are directly connected with the stated project, as have the common objectives of creation of stable channels of students' mobility on the base of agreed educational programs in the field of economy. IV.2. OBJECTIVE AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES

2.1. Objective

In general the objective of the project is to make the student mobility possible and to update the content of higher economic education, its methods and forms of teaching with the help of international cooperation in this area what will promote the development of market relations in Russia and its integration in the world economic community. The improvement of higher economic education should be realized by its adaptation to the European education dimensions. Russian economic education has not sufficient experience of operating in market conditions therefore the students trained do not always correspond to the requirements of the new market conditions. The solution of this problem can be reached as one of the outcomes of international cooperation in the field of economic education. Such cooperation is inevitably connected with students and teachers exchanges, with problems of development of joint professional education programs, with problems of academic recognition of educational degrees and diplomas. The outlined problems in the field of economic education allow to formulate the specific objective of the project: " Creation of a mobility network for students in economics based on internationalised curricula in the field of financial and industrial managament, banking and insurance for making the student mobility possible and for upgrading of education quality". Such a constantly functioning network will allow not only to accumulate and generalize the experience of teaching the students, but also to prepare the background for scientific exchange. Doubtlessly, in the course of student exchanges the growth of the staff participating in the development of internationalized educational programs will also be ensured. To achieve this objective it is necessary to set the following tasks:

· Strengthening of the existing and creation of new organizational structures dealing with student exchanges; · Development of internationalized curricula and joint short-term internationalized educational programs; · Development of new and improvement of the existing procedures of recognition of the results of abroad study courses; · Realization of student exchanges; · Analysis, generalization and dissemination of the experience obtained; · Taking special measures to provide the stability and sustainability of the network created.

2.2. Outcomes, activities and inputs

OUTCOME TABLE

Outcome reference N°: 1 Description of the outcome: 73 students and postgraduates, having taken part in the students exchange programs between Russian and European universities.

Deadline: June, 30, 2001 Institutions involved (reference N°): 1-8

Description of the activities: 1.1 Working out a common selection procedure of students-economists at all Russian higher educational institutions, participants of the consortium. Making use of the foreign universities experience. The VC branches together with the home institution professors carry out the selection. Language fluency will be one of the most imortant criteria. 1.2 Creation and annual updating as well as setting up in the Internet of the participating institutions information packages (in English language). 1.3 Organization of access to the resources of the host university (libraries, computer facilities, etc.). 1.4 Accommodation of foreign students in the hostels of the higher educational institutions, participants of the project. Organization of the foreign students leisure. Guarantee of their security during their staying abroad. 1.5 Language training for the outgoing students (before their departure). 1.6 Organizational and informational students support. 1.7 Supervising of the outgoing students (application of the ECTS system; in order to achive the best results of studying abroad the guidance from the home institution is presupposed). 1.8 Application of ECTS for the study results recognition (the regulations of the ECTS are mentioned in the “ECTS Users Guide” well known in European universities). 1.9 Experience dissemination organization of an international conference on the results of student exchanges (in Ekaterinburg). 1.10 Experience dissemination organization in Ekaterinburg of 3 annual regional conferences on the problems of economic education, with the European partners taking part.

Target group(s): Students, postgraduate students.

Inputs allocated from the Tempus budget: 1. Covering the expenses, connected with students exchange (travel and stay): 50 students' East-West mobility 5 months; 10 postgraduate students' East-West mobility 10 months 10 students' West-East mobility 5 months; 3 postgraduate students' West-East mobility 10 months 2. Financing of Russian universities information packages publishing. 3. Financing of work of the Language Centre teaching staff. 4. Financing of the