Erasmus+ Application by ECOLAS, University College Roosevelt and Four Other Partners Successful

ECOLAS is pleased to announce that the recent Erasmus+ grant proposal BLASTER (The Best Liberal Arts and Science Teaching Expanded and Reinforced) prepared by ECOLAS and five strategic partners – University College Roosevelt (NL), Leiden University College The Hague (NL), Warwick University (UK), Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) and Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) – has been accepted and approved for funding in the amount of 275,500 euro by the Dutch National Agency Nuffic. The funds will be applied over the next two years to three project areas critical to the success and development of liberal arts and sciences programmes: 1) Quality Standards and Assessment; 2) Professional Development and Teacher Training, and; 3) Undergraduate Research. More information on the project proposal is available here.

While the strategic partnership will be responsible for the realization, dissemination and sustainability of each of the projects, we will be seeking the assistance of the entire ECOLAS network in the process of gathering ideas, data and suggestions to feed into each area. Additionally, over the two-year period of the grant there will be a number of transnational events that will be open for participation from schools outside the strategic partnership.