PART A Participant Identification Code (PIC) number: A1. ORGANISATION 999505946 Full name of the organization in EN: Belarusian State Full name of the organization Belorusskij gosudarstvennyj universitet in Latin characters Acronym BSU Accreditation type: Accreditation number: It is ERASMUS university charter number Status: Public Public/Private Non Profit Organization: NO NGO: NO Type of Organization: Higher education institution (tertiary level) Registration date: 1999-01-09 Registration location: REGISTERED ADDRESS OF YOUR ORGANISATION Street name: Nezavisimosti Ave. Number: 4 Postcode: 220030 Town: Cedex: PO Box: Country: Belarus Internet address: http://www.bsu.by/ Telephone 1: +375 17 2265940 Telephone 2: +375 17 2095447 Fax: +375 17 2265940 A2. PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE APPLICATION (CONTACT PERSON) Title: Mr. Family name: Rytau First name: Aliaksandr Department/Faculty responsible for Department of International Relations the coordination of the project in partner institution Role in the organization: Head of International Programs and Projects Office, DIR E-mail address: Rytov@bsu.by Address, if different from the registered address in part A1. Street name: Leningradskaya Number: 20 Postcode: 220030 Town:
Cedex: PO Box: Country: Belarus Telephone 1: +375 17 2095447 Telephone 2: +375 17 2095224 Fax: +375 17 2095447 A3. PERSON AUTHORISED TO REPRESENT THE ORGANISATION IN LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENTS (LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE) Title: DSc, Academician Family name: Ablameyko First name: Sergey Role in the organization: Rector Email address: Ablameyko@bsu.by Address, if different from the registered address in part A1. Street name: Bobrujskaya Number: 5a Postcode: 220030 Town: Cedex: PO Box: Country: Belarus Telephone 1: +375 17 2095203 Telephone 2: +375 17 2265940 Fax: +375 17 2095203 PART D Quality of the project team and the cooperation arrangements D.1. Organisation and activities Partner number Organisation name & Belarusian State BSU acronym D.1.1 - Aims and activities of the organisation Please provide a short presentation of your organisation (key activities, affiliations, size of the organisation, etc.) relating to the area covered by the project (limit 2000 characters). P1
BSU is a classical public university ranked as the leading university in Belarus. It is accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus and complies with the Quality Standards of the Department of Quality of the Republic of Belarus. BSU System of Quality Management is certified on compliance with ISO 9001-2010. Total personnel employed at the BSU is 8400 (including 7 580 full-time specialists), including over 2 400 academic staff members. The total number of students enrolled at all levels of education 34 200, including more than 2000 international students from more than 40 countries worldwide. BSU offers Higher Education Programs in 56 specialities and 256 specializations, Master Programs in 47 specialities, and PhD Programs in 114 specialities. With 16 Faculties and 4 Educational Institutes, including two major educational bodies the BSU Lyceum and BSU Law College, BSU is acting as an integral educational and research complex being the national leader in international cooperation in education and science. BSU belongs to a highly internationalized university community and follows its strategic priorities set in the Internationalization Strategy Plan adopted in 2012. 25-30 international projects within such programmes as Tempus, Erasmus Mundus, Jean Monnet, EU Cross- Border Cooperation, DAAD, FPB-Belarus, CIMO and many others are implemented at the BSU annually. Academic exchanges, joint researches and joint educational programs are implemented in the framework of more than 250 international agreements with institutions from Europe, Asia and America. Being aimed at broadening international contacts and increasing participation in international projects, BSU actively participates in calls for proposals held by international funds and institutions and promotes project proposals focused at modernization and building capacity of university management, enhancing quality of education, organization of mobility and development joint programmes and cooperation. Please describe also the role of your organisation in the project (limit 1000 characters). (Project-oriented description) Bringing all these competences BSU will lead WPs according to project work plan and perform all necessary administrative, legal and ongoing management as required by the project. BSU will contribute to the development of methodology for research tasks assigned under the work plan. In addition BSU will facilitate cooperation among Belarusian academic community using ready-made networks and professional links to engage regional partners/ colleagues to bring an added value to the project. BSU will put all efforts to ensure smooth implementation of the project activities and contribute to success of the project via dissemination of the project outcomes and effective use of the project deliverables. D.1.2 - Operational capacity: Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project Please add lines as necessary. Summary of relevant skills and experience, including where relevant a list of Name of staff member recent publications related to the domain of the project. Position: Rector Academic Profile includes the position of the Academician of the National Academy of Science of Belarus, DSc, Professor with research area in image analysis, pattern and graphics recognition, digital geometry, knowledge-based systems, geographical information systems and medical imaging. S.Ablameyko holds numerous academic awards, certificates of merits, titles of honour and other recognition of achievements in fundamental and applied researches. He is in Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Machine Graphics and Vision and other international and national journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of two national Sergey Ablameyko journals. Moreover he leads a number of international projects in image analysis and GIS funded by European Commission through Programs COPERNICUS, INTAS, ISTC, 6th and 7th Framework Program, international projects with organizations from Russian, Ukraine, India and China, goes in for National Programs and projects in Informatics and Image Processing. He also manages several Russian-Belarusian joint Programs in Space, Supercomputers and GRID-technologies. S. Ablameyko is a Senior member of IEEE, Fellow of IAPR, Fellow of Belarusian Engineering Academy, Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. In the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), he
Vadzim Reznikau Alexander Rytov was a First Vice-President of IAPR (2006-2008), President of Belarusian Association for Image Analysis and Recognition. His publications include more than 350 scientific works, 9 of them are authored/co-authored books, 34 edited books and proceedings, and more than 180 refereed papers (in English) in international journals and proceedings of international conferences and two tutorials. S. Ablameyko is a regular member and chair/co-chair of various conferences, forums and congresses devoted to computer and engineering problems. For his active participation in the scientific life of the country and world research continuum he was awarded to numerous national honors such as State Prize of Belarus (highest national scientific award), 2002, Award of the National Academy of Sciences for the best scientific work, 2007, Belarusian Medal of F.Skoryna, Russian Award of Friendship and many other awards. He also won different international grants as a visiting scientist in research centers of Italy, Finland, Australia, Japan, and Germany and so on. Personal Page: http://www.bsu.by/en/main.aspx?guid=15941 Languages: Russian, Belorussian, English. Position: Head of the BSU Department for International Relations. Mr.Reznikau academic profile includes PhD in Psychology. He is an Associate Professor and author of a number of publications and academic articles in psychology, conflict resolution, disarming, adaptation of international students and internationalisation of education. His current professional activities include overall management of BSU international activities: participation on international networks and university partnerships; admission and support services for international students; holding international events and hosting official foreign delegations; support for staff and students for study and research abroad; fundraising, international project management; promoting BSU project ideas among foreign partners; developing and initiating international education projects, joint programmes etc. Dr. Reznikau is the Institutional Coordinator for International Programmes, experienced in coordinating Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, crossborder cooperation and similar international projects, inter-institutional cooperation agreements etc. His major competencies include strategic planning, developing strategies and policies for internationalisation, quality assurance management, team building, intercultural communication. Personal Page: http://www.bsu.by/main.aspx?guid=131181&map=131201 Languages: Russian, Belorussian, English. Position: Head of International Programs and Projects Office, BSU Department for International Relations. Mr. Rytau s academic background includes PhD Programme with research area in quantitative methods of historical survey. He s the author of a number of publications and academic articles on BSSR history, methods of historical researches. Since 1999 he has been working in the different areas of international cooperation at BSU, including services for foreign delegations and visitors, inter-university cooperation, he was a Head of International Marketing Office. Since 2009 holds the position of Head of International Programs and Projects Office at BSU DIR. His current professional activities include overall management of international projects implemented at BSU, assisting with management of applications by networking with international partners, fundraising and grantwriting, control of project implementation and quality assurance, project reporting; assisting with legal registration of projects in Belarusian public authorities; incoming and outgoing mobility, organizing and hosting international events (International seminar on
Project Manager (Sample Profile) Internationalization, International seminar "Experiences of EuroFaculties for the Future", Jean Monnet International Conference The European Union and Belarus: Getting closer for better future etc.). He is closely engaged in implementation of Tempus INURE, PICASA, SUCSID projects. Personal Page: http://www.bsu.by/ru/main.aspx?guid=101791&map=129961 Languages: Russian, Belorussian, English Position: Project Manager Professional activities: Management of international projects, management of joint research projects, financial management, budget planning, project reporting, quality assurance, internal evaluation, organizational support for project meetings, seminars and other events. - Fundraising, management of institutional research activities, development and implementation of joint projects, grant writing, support of fundraising activities, implementation of project activities, control of project implementation and quality assurance, project reporting; - Promoting BSU project ideas to international partners, networking with international partners for joint applications, distributing information among potential foreign partners. Major competencies: Experience in technical and administrative work in project implementation, project and financial management, (including budget planning), grant writing, support of international events, experience in legal project-related matters. Project-related skills and expertise: local/ departmental project coordinator, team manager for project WPs, responsible for international cooperation, joint projects etc. PART J Other EU Grants Please list the projects for which the organizations involved in this application have received financial support from EU programmes. Programme or initiative CBC Latvia- Lithuania-Belarus Reference number LLB-2-175 204289-EM-1-2011- 1-FI-ERA 372359-EM-1-2012- 1-FI-ERA 372234-EM-1-2012- 1-IT-ERA 372563-EM-1-2012- 1-DE-ERA Beneficiary Organisation Public Institution Nature Heritage Fund of Turku of Turku Università di Bologna Oldenburg Unviersity Title of the Project Management of Alytus-Grodno Region Transboundary Protected Areas and Promotion of their Integration into Pan-European Ecological Network Belarus-Moldova-Ukraine: Mobilities for Innovation and Development Mobilities for Innovation and Development Whole Europe Beyond Borders Enhancing Learning in ENPI Countries through Clean Technologies and Research related Activities 2010-2320/001-001 Deusto BMU LOT 7 EMA2 545865-EM-1-2013- National and Humanities Education Revitalized 1-GR-ERA Kapodistrian via Mundus ExperienceS of Athens 545743-EM-1-2013- Tallinn HUManities, Education, Research,
European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights Jean Monnet program Jean Monnet program Jean Monnet program 1-EE-ERA - Yerevan State 542812-LLP-1-2013-1-BY-AJM-PO 542948-LLP-1-BY- AJM-IC 553510-EPP-1-2014-1-BY- EPPJMO- MODULE 530349-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-FR- TEMPUS-JPHES 530379-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-LV- 530644-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-ES- 530181-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-DE- TEMPUS-SMGR 544125-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-AM- TEMPUS-SMGR 544609-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-AT- 543724-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-LT- 543990-TEMPUS- 1-2013-1-DE- 544440-TEMPUS- 1-2013-1-DE- Belarusian State Belarusian State Belarusian State Montpellier 2 Riga Technical of Cordoba Koblenz-Landau Yerevan State Technische Universität Wien Vilniaus Gedemino Technicos Universitetas Universität Potsdam Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München Inter-cultural relations and Arts between EU and ENPI HEIs Regional Master s Programme in Human Rights and Democratization in Eastern Partnership Region Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in European Studies at the Belorussian State : Promoting European Law and Integration Studies International Conference "European Union and Belarus: Getting closer for better future" Ethnic Minorities in the European Union Inter-university Start-up centers for students innovations development & promotion Development of Training Network for Improving Education in Energy Efficiency Human Security (environment, quality of food, public health and society) on territories contaminated by Radioactive agents Integrated Management System: EU Experience on NIS Countries Ground Promoting Internationalization of HEIs in Eastern Neighborhood Countries through Cultural and Structural Adaptation Applied Computing in Engineering and Science New model of the third cycle in engineering education due to Bologna Process in BY, RU, UA Training on alternative dispute resolution as an approach for ensuring of human rights Consortium for Modern Language Teacher Education