The workshops also intend to give some guidance on the procedures required for participation in international programmes and the management of projects. WUS Austria plans to intensify its activities in this field. There is a project to elaborate a manual on university cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina. WUs provided PCs, modems and other technical material and built up a network, linking the Rectorateand the Faculty of Law to the web, with funds donated by the Austrian Federal Chancellery. WUS also regularly finances courses on computer and internet use.
Students using the services have to pay a modest fee.
The Centre, the capacity of which is jut about to be doubled, is run by Naris Pojskic witht the help of trained students. A similar centre is planned to be established at Banja Luka University, while WUS assisted the connecting of faculties in Tuzla. Despite various technical problems at the beginning, the system is now functioning well and offers the faculties and students new possibilities to get international contacts with other universities or NGOs as well as access to databases useful for teaching and research. WUS was also instrumental in getting the support of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Traffic, of Education and of Foreign Affairs to sponsor a satelite link between Sarajevo and the University of Vienna, which from July 1998 will provide better access to the internet. As English and the knowledge of other foreign languages is often a prerequisite for participation in international congresses, working with foreign scientific literature and to get international contacts with other universities, World University Service Austria finances regular and summer courses in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar and Tuzla in German and English language.