Edu:Manufaktura has a strong mission to increase the academic mobility of the Western Balkan students on the European level.
The Challenge:
Explaining the Social Challenge in the Western Balkans:
The Western Balkan student mobility challenge in numbers:
*percentage of students enrolling in study programs abroad, per region
Western Europe*
3.5 %
Western Balkans*
0.3%
Why we do it?
SYSTEMIC CAUSES
CONSEQUENCES
SOCIAL CHALLENGE
INSTITUTIONAL
Poor performance of HE institutions renders students unprepared for continuing education abroad
INFRASTRUCTURAL
Lack of coherent source of information on advantages of international degree
GOVERNMENTAL
No strategic/visionary
approach to HE
INDIVIDUAL
Students fail to gain new competencies and knowledge
INSTITUTIONAL
Domestic universities lag
behind the international competition
SOCIETAL
Low economic competitiveness,
lack of transfer of technology and knowledge, and
continuous human capital outflow
Low academic mobility
of students from the Western Balkans
Our Solution:
Edu:Manufaktura’s activities
Student-focused
Policy-focused
EDUCATION PORTAL
We offer students free, up-to-date, original, and syndicated content on opportunities and advantages of international education.
MATCHMAKING CONSULTING SERVICES
We assist undergraduate & graduate students to find a study placement by matchmaking with the appropriate European universities.
Services are provided to all students, with pro bono services for disadvantaged students.
Producing evidence-based research for governments and NGOs.
Organizing conferences/workshops, thus promoting the internationalization of HE in the Western Balkans.