EU programme Erasmus+ in University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Erasmus Program is a Sector Program under the “Lifelong Learning” Program of the Direction General “Education” of the European Commission in Brussels.

This Program is the successor of the “Socrates” program, which expired in 2007. At the University of Forestry, the beginning was laid with the Tempus Program for international cooperation in the field of Higher education. Under Tempus, a project was developed and coordinated under the number S_JEP 12479-97 with the title Development of Furniture Design Education in the period of 1995-96. This project was coordinated by a team of teachers from the University of Forestry, together with teachers from Partner Higher Education Institutions. The application was submitted Jan. 30th, 1997. The financing was done under Tempus Program and covered activities such as development of the curriculum, of study materials and equipment for the new specialty “Engineering Design (Interior and Furniture Design)”. Two Computer Laboratories were equipped , textbooks were published, other teaching materials were produced. After the period of this project expired, we continued the cooperation with some of the partner HEI-s under Socrates, and today we are working under Lifelong Learning – Erasmus. The activities of organizing and implementing Student and Teacher mobilities under Erasmus are financed by the European Commission in Brussels. To this end, each academic year, the HEI-s that have signed the Erasmus University Charter apply and sign a contract with the National LLP Agency. The university of Forestry holds a Standart Erasmus Charter with the number 76946-IC-1-2007-1-BG-ERASMUS-EUC-1, for the period of 5 years, starting from 2007. For the academic year 2008-2009, was signed the Contract № 2008-ERA-MOB-15 between Human Resources Development Center (National LLP Agency) and the University of Forestry.