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The completed ERAMIS and the ongoing PROMIS are European Union (EU) Tempus projects for
setting up a new Master degree titled “Informatics as a Second Competence” taking as a model a
similar existing degree of the University of Grenoble Alpes, France. Both projects can be considered
big and having quite long implementation periods – more than three years each. There were
seventeen partners from eight countries in the ERAMIS project, and there are now twenty one
partners including three companies coming from ten countries in the PROMIS project. In both cases,
EU partners collaborated with partners from regions that differ culturally, namely, Central Asia and
Russia. Although those projects were not the biggest in the Tempus program, they could be classified
as large in terms of their budget and the number of partners involved.
The core results of the statistical overview of parameters of the Tempus programme projects are
presented in this paper. The analysis was performed in two dimensions: project budget and number of
partner countries. It allowed classifying ERAMIS and PROMIS projects as large in comparison to other
EU Tempus projects. To clarify the context, the short descriptions of both projects are given, followed
by the summary of the evaluation of problems encountered by the EU partner project teams. Issues
arose from different areas, such as project activities, scheduling, legal procedures, and so on. Some
issues were due to the international nature of the project, for example, varying level of language skills,
different culture, legislation and ways of handling tasks, work motivation, etc. Leverage came from the
people: all teams consisted of academics in the same field. They had approximately the same level of
knowledge and skills, used the similar reference works and similar technologies. We consider this is
essential for the success of such projects.
By pointing out the various issues encountered in these two projects, we aim to raise awareness about
the problems that need to be dealt with and planned for in this kind of large projects as to allow others
to avoid them or address these issues smoothly
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