Our institution, TEI Piraeus plans to submit a Joint multi-country proposal to the 3rd call of Tempus Programme under the "Governance" theme. We call this project PORCUPINE for short title of "Post Graduate Research Curricula in Primary International Environment"

Up to this moment Institutions within EU, (Greece, Romania, England) and form partner countries of Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt haw expressed interest to participate in this project.

The duration of PORCUPINE project is expected to reach the maximum allowed of 36 months and its goals are:

1. Elaborate International Strategy Development Plan for partner Countries

2. Training of Faculties and Administrative Staff on Bologna requirements

3. Staff development on designing curricula based on the latest ECTS policies and practices

4. Development of Dual Degrees Programs between Consortium Members with mutual recognition of degrees, e-learning, sandwich programs and ECTS

5. Provide mobility capacities for postgraduate degree students of partner and EU countries.

We would appreciate your assistance to introduce our project proposal to suitable Higher Education Institutions in order to achieve the maximum possible dissemination effect of this idea. For your reference we attach the following files that could be used as reference for our future partners:

1 . Project PORCUPINE outlinve version 4.1

2 . A blank form of partners questionnaire

Please note that in order to write a thorough proposal we need to obtain completed the partners questionnaire as soon as possible.

Do not hesitate to contact with me for further information Best regards

Angelo Davaris Project Manager

Center of Technological Research TEI Piraeus

Petrou Ralli & Thevon 250 TK 12244 Aegaleo Greece

Tel: + 30 210 538 1207

Fax: + 30 210 538 1468

email: peachop@otenet.gr