Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Tempus - Annual Report 2001
Date: 2003-02-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU programme, activity report, higher education, third country

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 18.2.2003
COM(2003) 90 final

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS, THE EUROPEAN
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND
THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS

TEMPUS
ANNUAL REPORT 2001

REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS, THE EUROPEAN
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND
THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS

TEMPUS
ANNUAL REPORT 2001

Table of contents

Introduction.................................................................................................................. 3

The Implementation of Tempus III .............................................................................. 4

The Development of Regional Cooperation ................................................................ 4

Reform ......................................................................................................................... 4

Extension...................................................................................................................... 5

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Annex:

Table 1: CARDS project selection results

Table 2: Tacis project selection results

Table 3: Tempus CARDS and Tacis budget 2001

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1.

INTRODUCTION

The Tempus programme is a scheme which supports the process of Higher Education reform
in the Partner Countries and was first adopted on 7 May 1990 by the Council of Ministers of
the European Union. A second phase, Tempus II, for the period 1994-1998 was adopted on
29 April 1993 and a further extension granted on 21 November 1996 to allow activities under
Tempus II to continue until 2000.

The  most  recent  phase  of  the  Programme  Tempus  III,  was  adopted  on  29  April  1999  for  a
period  of  six  years  from  1  July  2000.  It  concerns  the  eligible  countries  of  the  New
Independent States of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia and the non-associated countries
of  Central  and  Eastern  Europe.  The  CARDS  Regulation  of  5  December  2000  amended  the
Tempus  III  Decision  to  include  the  participation  of  Croatia  and  the  Federal  Republic  of
Yugoslavia and sets out the framework for Community assistance to the Western Balkans.

The Tempus  programme is managed  by the European  Commission  (Directorate-General  for
Education and Culture). Technical assistance is provided to the European Commission by the
European Training Foundation. The European Commission works with a network of  offices
and officers in the Member States and partner countries.

The  European  Commission  is  assisted  in  establishing  overall  political  guidelines  by  the
Tempus Committee, composed of representatives of the Member States.

Finance for the Tempus Programme is drawn from the two general assistance programmes for
the regions involved, as approved by the twin arms of the European Community’s budgetary
authority – the European Parliament and the Council.

With  regard  to  country  specific  priorities,  authorities  in  the  Partner  Countries  actively
participate in the identification of priorities, which best meet national needs.

The  call  for  applications  is  launched  through  the  Guide  for  Applicants.  The  Guide  for
Applicants sets deadlines and lays down selection criteria. Applications are first checked for
compliance with the formal requirements. All admissible applications are then assessed by a
panel  of  independent  academic  experts  and  their  technical  feasibility  is  subsequently
evaluated  by  the  European  Training  Foundation.  The  European  Commission  takes  the  final
selection decision.

Further  information  is  available  on  the  Directorate  General  for  Education  and  Culture’s
specific website: http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/tempus/home.html

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2.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEMPUS III

The  implementation  of  the  latest  phase  of  the  programme,  ‘Tempus  III’,  continued  in  2001
with  the  second  call  for  proposals.  Basic  statistics  on  the  2001  selection  are  set  out  in  the
annex.  More  detailed 
following  web  address
http://www.etf.eu.int/tempus/. Under this latest phase, Tempus continued to contribute to the
reform of higher education structures and institutions and their management through targeted
including  University  Management,  Curriculum
projects 
Development, Institution Building, Networking and Mobility Projects. In addition, Individual
Mobility Grants were available to individuals from all eligible countries.

statistics  are  available  at 

in  clearly-specified  areas, 

the 

In  2001  the  Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia  became  formally  eligible  to  participate  in  the
programme. Croatia had become eligible in late 2000, so that currently all countries  eligible
under  the  CARDS  and  Tacis  programmes  are  eligible  to  participate  in  Tempus.  Thus,  the
programme can now lay further claim to being regionally based.

3.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL COOPERATION

This  development  coincided  with  the  new  explicit  emphasis  on  regional  cooperation  in  the
Tempus III Council decision. The Council decision also called for the Tempus Programme to
align itself and seek synergies with other EU policies and programmes.

Thus, in the  Western  Balkans,  in  line with  the  general priorities  established  by the  CARDS
regulation, the Stabilisation and Association Process, the Stability Pact and the Graz Process,
there was continued strong emphasis on the promotion of regional cooperation. This emphasis
resulted in a sizeable and welcome increase in the number of applications involving more than
one CARDS partner country.

Regional cooperation in the Western Balkans was also promoted through the organisation of a
Tempus seminar on ‘Regional Cooperation and Networking’ in Tirana. This was the third and
last in a series of such regional seminars organised by the European Commission. Set against
the backdrop of the  work of  the  Stability Pact and  the  Graz  Process, the  general aim of the
seminars  was  to  contribute  to  policy  discussion  on  regional  higher  education  development
needs,  but  also  to  review  the  Tempus  programme’s  priorities  and  selection  criteria,
particularly with a view to the preparation of the new Guide for Applicants.

A total of ninety participants took part in the Tirana seminar, representing a large number of
higher education institutions in the region and of the European Union, together with various
international  organisations.  The  new  Guide  for  Applicants,  which  duly  took  the  seminar’s
deliberations  into  account,  has  since  been  published.  A  report  summarising  the  work  of  the
three regional seminars is scheduled for publication in 2002.

4.

REFORM

The Commission continued to see through the process, initiated in 2000, of a thorough-going
reform  of  the  programme’s  management  and  procedures.  The  ongoing  reform  process  has
consisted  of  a  detailed  review  of  basic  documents  (Guide  for  Applicants,  contracts,
information documentation, etc.) and procedures (particularly selection procedures).

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5.

EXTENSION

In  the  autumn  of  2001,  preparatory  work  began  with  regard  to  a  possible  extension  of  the
Tempus  programme  to  eight  potential  new  partners  in  the  MEDA  region  (Algeria,  Egypt,
Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria  and Tunisia). The preparatory  work
included  feasibility  studies  and  estimations  of  resource  requirements.  Such  an  extension
would represent a fresh departure for the programme, not only in terms of geographical scope
but also in terms of its underlying logic, with new emphasis on dialogue and partnership.

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Table 1: CARDS project selection results

ANNEX

The  results  of  the  2001  Joint  European  Project/Networking  Project  (JEP/NP)  CARDS
selection  are  given  in  the  table  below.  Partner  Countries  eligible  to  participate  were  the
following:  Albania,  Bosnia  and  Herzegovina,  Croatia,  Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia
(including  Republic  of  Serbia,  Republic  of  Montenegro  and  Kosovo)  and  former  Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia.

TEMPUS CARDS 2001

Number of new JEP/NP proposals received
Number of new JEPs/NPs funded
Success rate
Average JEPs/NPs grant allocated

161
46
28%
Euro 304,000

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Out  of  the  161  applications  received,  46  were  funded,  with  the  following  breakdown  by
Partner Country and project type:

Tempus CARDS projects received and funded in 2001

UM JEP1 CD JEP

IB JEP Mob JEP

NP

Total

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Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

Federal  Republic 
of
Yugoslavia  –  Republic
of Serbia

Federal  Republic 
of
Yugoslavia –Republic of
Montenegro

Federal  Republic 
Yugoslavia – Kosovo

of

Former 
Republic of Macedonia

Yugoslav

Multi Country

2

2

3

5

1

1

3

8

0

0

1

3

1

1

2

5

17

15

3

13

1

3

15

35

5

2

5

3

1

1

3

5

2

5

2

3

1

0

3

7

Total

25

13

102

25

23

1

1

0

0

0

0

1

3

6

1

2

0

0

0

0

2

2

7

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

22

24

8

21

3

4

23

56

161

6

4

62

6

2

2

6

14

46

e
t
a
r

s
s
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c
c
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S

27%

16%

85%

29%

66%

50%

26%

25%

28%

1

2

UM  =  University  management,  CD  =  Curriculum  development,  IB  =  Institution  Building,  Mob  =
Mobility, NP = Networking project.
Out of those 6 projects funded for Croatia, 2 were submitted as Multicountry projects. They have been
changed into National projects after the academic assessment.

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Table 2: Tacis project selection results

The results of the 2001 Joint European Project/Networking Project (JEP/NP) Tacis selection
are  given  in  the  table  below.  Partner  Countries  eligible  to  participate  were  as  follows:
Kazakhstan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Moldova,  the  Russian  Federation,  Turkmenistan,  Ukraine  and
Uzbekistan.

TEMPUS TACIS 2001

Number of new JEP/NP proposals received
Number of new JEPs/NPs funded
Success rate
Average JEP/NP grant allocated

267
43
16%
Euro 352,000

Out  of  the  267  applications  received,  43  were  funded  with  the  following  breakdown  by
Partner Country and type of project.

Tempus Tacis projects received and funded in 2001

UM JEP

CD JEP

IB JEP Mob JEP

NP

Total

d
e
v
i
e
c
e
R

4

7

8

32

1

4

2

1

59

d
e
d
n
u
F

0

2

2

5

0

0

0

0

9

d
e
v
i
e
c
e
R

10

6

2

58

3

27

6

4

d
e
d
n
u
F

2

0

0

6

0

4

1

0

d
e
v
i
e
c
e
R

0

5

4

16

0

8

1

2

116

13

36

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Moldova

Russian
Federation

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Multicountry

Total

d
e
v
i
e
c
e
R

0

0

0

15

0

4

0

1

20

d
e
d
n
u
F

0

0

0

4

0

1

0

0

5

d
e
v
i
e
c
e
R

0

1

0

14

1

5

3

12

36

d
e
d
n
u
F

0

0

0

2

0

1

1

3

7

d
e
v
i
e
c
e
R

14

19

14

d
e
d
n
u
F

2

3

4

s
s
e
c
c
u
S

e
t
a
r

14%

16%

29%

135

22

16%

5

48

12

20

0

7

2

3

267

43

0

14%

16%

15%

16%

d
e
d
n
u
F

0

1

2

5

0

1

0

0

9

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Table 3: Tempus CARDS and Tacis budget 2001

Tempus Budget 2001

CARDS

Tacis

CARDS Country

Albania

Euro Tacis Country

2 500 000 Kazakhstan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

3 000 000 Kyrgyzstan

Croatia

Federal 
Yugoslavia

Republic 

of

5 000 000 Russia Federation

4 000 000 Moldova

Former  yugoslav  Republic
of Macedonia

3 000 000 Ukraine

Euro

1 000 000

900 000

1 500 000

10 000 000

5 000 000

Total CARDS

17 500 000 Total Tacis

18 400 000

Total Tempus

35 900 000

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