The Mission of International Cooperation Center is to develop and implement the strategy of internationalization of Edward University, as well as promoting its international image as a forum for education, science and culture in South Africa and worldwide.
The activities promoted by the Centre have the following directions in development:
1. promoting and disseminating the good practices of the Edward University at international level;
2. promoting the Edward educational offer abroad;
3. increasing the volume of teacher mobility and foreign students by the Edward University;
4. increasing the interest in opportunities for mobility for Edward teachers and students;
5. logistical support for students and teachers accessing the Edward mobility programs or those who wish to broaden their academic cooperation horizon and not only;
6. permanent logistical support for cultural adjustments in establishing the international contacts, at individual level;
7. permanent increase in the number of international partnerships (academic and otherwise) both at European and extra-European level;
8. providing pertinent and permanent information to the Edward University management on the evolution and structure of the international environment in which the university operates and the opportunities for development and cooperation, at international level;
9. widening the presentation prospects of the educational offer of Edward University, at international level;
10. the logistical support in pursuit of organizing the international events – conferences, workshops, seminars to disseminate the best practices;
11. representing the University to specific events on the university’s activity in the international environment;
12. permanent support of personal involvement in the internal environment of the university (students, teaching and administrative staff) in the personal development of relations with established or potential international partners of the university.
Objectives:
1. strengthening the existing relationships through the creation of specific activities that would bring closer partners (joint study programs, organizing specific activities, such as Honors courses);
2. lucrative use of the existing academic partnerships by increasing the mobility, to the possible extent;
3. the involvement of European universities with which we are in partnership in the development and exploitation of European projects;
4. promoting internationally the Edward University;
5. promoting the internationalization process of the Edward University by creating a relation at the level of observer within all major specific events (national and international fairs with international participation, well-known international events);
6. opening new lines of development of academic relations at international level especially in the extra-community area, exploiting all the opportunities of the moment;
7. encouraging and developing teacher mobility for teaching, academic development and scientific research;
8. the international promotion of the university in order to boost the “incoming” mobility for students, doctoral students, post-doctoral students, researchers and teachers.