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DYNET - An Education Programme within the framework of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

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The DYNET has been established within the special DAAD program - "Academic Reconstruction of Southeast Europe" upon the initiative of Ruhr-University Bochum and the faculty of civil engineering.

The idea about DYNET arose from the needs for a long-term establishment of a network to cover Southeast Europe in the field of Dynamics in Civil Engineering. The region needs specialized civil engineers that are deficient at the time being. This project should contribute to partially overcome such a deficiency by further education and advanced training of civil engineers.

DYNET means institutionalized cooperation between partners from Germany (who started the initiative) and partner countries in Southeast Europe aimed at improvement of research in Southeast Europe. It also means physical establishment of a computer network for exchange of data and access to the computer capacity of the network servers in Germany, particularly those at Ruhr- University Bochum

This should not be limited to Bochum in Germany only. From organizational aspects, the future cooperation with the Institute for Construction at the University of Stuttgart and the Institute for Construction Materials and should the occasion arise Construction Chemistry at the University of Cottbus has already been agreed. As to further professional cooperation, extension to the Institute of Construction Statistics and Construction Dynamics of RWTH-Aachen and the Bauhaus University Weimar is also envisaged.

Some conditions will also have to be fulfilled for the DYNET establishment. The contact between the partners participating in the project, the exchange of teaching- research material and literature shall be done gradually by electronic media in the course of time. The main prerequisite for the accomplishment of the above activities is the availability of adequate modern computer equipment to the partner universities of Southeast Europe.

Within the frames of DYNET, fast communication should be enabled via INTERNET as an important integral part of a well functioning network. For this, an Internet connection will be created among the included faculties by means of a computer network. The equipment available at the University of Bochum shall be used and the universities in Skopje, Nish and Sarajevo shall be equipped with server client systems. This shall enable partner universities in Southeast Europe to use the high-capacity computers in Germany and establish university partnership within broad European perspectives.




DYNET partners at present



DYNET partners at present

Introduction


  • Problem:


    • A decade of devastating conflicts in South East Europe in the 1990s.

    • Still smouldering conflicts.

    • Poverty as basic evil in the countries.

    • Especially research and higher education come a long way down the list of priorities.

    • Exodus of university professors and researchers („brain drain“).

  • Approaches for Solution:


    • Reforming higher education to stop the brain drain.

    • Strengthen the academic reconstruction with young people.

    • Reconvene the collaboration in the European environment.

    • Integrate the educational system into the Bologna Process.


Framework I - Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe


  • About the Stability Pact


    • replacement of the previous, reactive crisis intervention policy in South Eastern Europe with a comprehensive, long-term conflict prevention strategy

    • integration of all countries of the region into Euro-Atlantic structures

    • adopted at the German's initiative on the conference of the European Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Cologne on June 10th 1999

    • reaffirmed at the summit meeting in Sarajevo on July 30th 1999

    • since 1999 support of SEE countries with more than 25 Billion Euro

  • The Stability Pact partners


    • The countries of the South Eastern European (SEE) region

    • Other countries: Canada, Japan, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, USA

    • Other countries: Canada, Japan, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, USA

    • International financial institutions: World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), etc.

    • Regional initiatives: Central European Initiative (CEI), etc.