TECHNICKÁ
UNIVERZITA V LIBERCI
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POLITECHNIKA
WROCLAWSKA
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Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz
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The Neisse University represents a network of co-operation between
- the Technical University of Liberec / TECHNICKÁ UNIVERZITA V LIBERCI
- the Wroclaw University of Technology / POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA
- the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz / Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz
which is based on joint study courses.
The creation of a joint European sector of higher education has been the objective of European universities since the 1999 Declaration of Bologna. Based on the understanding that the process of European integration has made important progress during the last few years and has increasingly become a concrete and real fact to the citizens, considerations were raised to establish, by analogy, a joint sector of higher education.
The present three-national project is a step forward towards the creation of a joint European sector of
higher education. In its nature, it is unique in Europe, thus having the character of a pilot project.
By their study at these three institutions, the students are being prepared in an excellent way for the
expanding EU labour market.
Within the framework of the Neisse University, the joint three-year Bachelor course of
Information and Communication Management"
"Bachelor of Science"
(B.Sc.)
is offered in the English language.
To comply with the principle of equality, a system of rotation was agreed upon for the students of this study course.
According to this, the students would stay for one year each at each of the universities. The studies are structured
in a modular way, thus ensuring that the contents of study are closely interlocked. The new feature about this study
course, and at the same time the interesting one, is its highly innovative character which links applied computer
science, economic science and communications psychology with issues of an intercultural study, guaranteeing in this
way a high degree of flexibility with regard to future assignments of the study courses' graduates. The objective is
to train practically orientated specialists for cross-sectional jobs in the fields of economics, the media and in
public administration.
The Neisse University concept is the concept of study in a concrete language, cultural, scientific and
economic environment. Students and lecturers from three countries are part of it.
The essential advantage of studying at this three-national university based on the utilization of really existing
resources in terms of material and staff, is its potential to benefit from all of the respective individual
universities' strengths. This applies to the apparatus and laboratory equipment available as well as to the
scientific staff potentialities of the institutions involved. Thus, co-operation of all three institutions in a
joint educational object is guaranteed on an equal footing. The study, which for its greater part is a concrete one,
thus enhances the development of multicultural social competence, marked by the acceptance of things different and by
tolerance. For this reason, participation of university lecturers from all three institutions on the basis of equal
rights is a significant prerequisite to its effectiveness because it enables this
integrated university system to successfully implement a practically orientated training for the three countries.
Another positive element in support of an efficient and career-orientated training is that the students are made
familiar with detailed economic, working and living conditions existing in this dynamic region of Central and Eastern
Europe. This also includes the knowledge of traditions in economics and science as
well as the comprehension of patterns of thought and behaviour existing in the countries involved.
There is no doubt of regional advantages being utilized in this context. Co-operation at a level of quality as
present with the Neisse University calls for short distances between institutions, as is the case in the Euro region
Neisse . The purpose of all this is to take part in shaping the
process of integration in the European Union and to counteract as far as possible any undesirable development.
This model of co-operation demonstrates that universities of different countries are not only capable of putting into
practice supplementary offers
of courses but to also work together as equal partners when providing compulsory elements of study.
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