IIU-EM-2010 Staff Scholarship – International Islamic University

International Islamic University, Islamabad

[Faculty of Shariah & Law]

THE ERASMUS MUNDUS ACTION 2 SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE STUDENTS .STAFF AND FACULTY OF IIU

Note for Acadmic Staff Scholarships

Applications for postdoctoral and academic staff scholarships will be welcomed from October 2010. Postdoctoral scholarships are for a period of 6/10 months, whereas academic staff scholarships are for 1 month.
Candidates for these scholarships should have a mission that must completely match the long term plans of their sending institution. After their scholarship period, they will also be involved in the further setting up of mobility. The explicit mission of academic staff candidates is outlined by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency as Under:

In the context of the individual mobility flows, academic staff mobility refers exclusively to training, teaching and/or research activities performed by invited academic staff of partner universities in host institutions which are members of the partnership. The objectives of "academic staff mobility" must be:

to provide academic staff with opportunities for professional and personal development, through the possibility of doing practical training, research or teaching assignments in a partner institution;
to encourage universities to broaden and enrich the range and content of courses they offer;
to allow students to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of academic staff from universities in participating in the partnership;
to consolidate links between institutions in different countries;
to promote exchange of expertise and experience on pedagogical methods;
to strengthen the capacity for international cooperation;
to prepare long-term recognition of studies between institutions through ECTS (European credit transfer system) or other compatible systems.

Academic staff undertaking a period of teaching, training or research in a partner university must
work in or be associated to one of the participating institution

have the nationality of one of the eligible countries and
be fully integrated into the Department or Faculty of the host institution(s).

This last criterion means that:

the mobility assignments must be based on partnership agreements between the members of the partnership;
the home and host universities and the individual teachers must agree on the programme of lectures to be delivered by the visiting teachers, on the research activities or type of training to be followed;
the exchange may constitute a post-per- post exchange or a one-way visitor flow to or from a third-country.

In the selection process, priority should be given to mobility assignments which will also:

ensure that the visiting teacher’s contributions will be an integral part of a diploma programme of the host institution;
will lead to the production of new teaching material;
will be used to consolidate and extend links between departments and faculties and to prepare for future cooperation projects between the sending and host university;
will help strengthen the international cooperation departments in the foreign universities;
will lead to progresses in the application of ECTS or other systems for recognition of studies in the partner institution.

Note for Post Doctoral Scholarships

Candidates are invited to check out the websites of the partner institutions in order to find a suitable department or research unit. The application form for postdoctoral candidates is available . Duly completed forms can be sent to http://www.emasiaregional.eu from October 2010 till 14-11-2010. Incomplete applications will be discarded.
Academic staff candidates are invited to retrieve the application form from the EM ECW coordinator at their sending institution and to return the completed form to them. Academic staff applications cannot be accepted directly, only through the local EM ECW coordinators.