INTEGRATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WITH THE EDUCATION IN THE ALBANIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

Zhuljeta Cinga

doi:10.12955/snsj.v7i0.413

Abstract

In the framework of the trends of development of Higher Education in Europe and all over the world, especially with the Bologna Process, The National Strategy of Higher Education, N S H E2008-2013, has put forward the main problems of the system of higher education so that Albania may have its own place in the European Higher Education Area.One of the main problems has been thereformation ofhigher education, the improvement of the teaching system and scientific research which until now have been completely separated from each other, the scientific research was carried out in the research institutes outside of the higher education, which were mainly subject to theScienceAcademy. The reforms undertaken in the area of higher education and of the base research aim at the integration of these two systems in the system of higher education having as the primary goal the increase of quality in universities especially in the second and third cycle of study.Through this article we want to present an innovation in the system of public higher education, the integration of the scientific research with the process of teaching in the higher education, to expose the priorities, the performance, the weaknesses which are observed, the reasons and the future perspectives

Highlights

One of the main problems has been the reformation of higher education, the improvement of the teaching system and scientific research which until now have been completely separated from each other, the scientific research was carried out in the research institutes outside of the higher education, which were mainly subject to the Science Academy
The scientific research consists of a right of the academic personnel which is practiced in the conditions of academic freedom, which guarantees the independence of teaching and scientific research
The research and scientific work in Albania are coordinated with European research organisms by removing the last barriers which separated the community of the Albanian researchers and scholars from their European colleagues

Summary

The European research area program

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Republic of Albania and European Commission on the association of our country in the seventh program Cadre for Research and Technologic Development, has paved the way to the financing of the scientific research projects. The research and scientific work in Albania are coordinated with European research organisms by removing the last barriers which separated the community of the Albanian researchers and scholars from their European colleagues. Those which benefit directly from the European Program are the Albanian universities, scientific research centers, private companies, public institutions, different central agencies, as well as different individuals. The Excellence Fund, which began to be observed before a few years by Ministry of Education and Science, in order to support the young to make their studies of doctorate in Western universities, should be raised, in order to precipitate the improvement of the level of qualification of the academic personnel which is involved in the science system. The program Brain Gain, which is undertaken by the government in cooperation with UNDP, has supported and should support in continuance the public and private institutions of the science system, the universities and public administration, to recruit educated young in the foreign universities or to benefit by the contribution of the Albanian scientists who work at the foreign academic centers

Erasmus Mundus program

The Jean Monnet program