XVI Conference DEVELOPMENT TRENDS: “ Bologna 2010: State, Dilemmas and Perspectives ” Kopaonik, Serbia, 1-4 March 2010. Joint Tempus Projects Workshop JADES – SoCD – MAS-PLM ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 287 Paper No. W1 ACADEMIC STAFF AND STUDENT MOBILITY BENEFITS AND PROBLEMS, EXPERIENCES FROM TEMPUS SoCD PROJECT Dimitar Trajanov 1 , Sonja Filiposka 2 , Aksenti Grnarov 3 12 Faculty of Electrical Enginering and Informationm Technologies, “ss Cyril and Methodius” University – Skopje, Macedonia 3 Faculty Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and Technologies, South East European University-Tetovo, Macedonia 1 mite@feit.ukim.edu.mk , 2 filipos@feit.ukim.edu.mk , 3 grnarov@mt.net.mk 1. APSTRACT Within the Tempus SoCD project, we conducted several academic staff and students mobility. In this paper, we present our experiences, benefits and problems that we have with mobility and its impact on Bologna process. We provide a comparison of learning opportunities in European countries in contrast to Macedonia as a partner country. We give mainly the students' perspective of mobility and their experience how mobility influenced their knowledge. This tempus project had a great impact on enhancing and synchronizing SoCD master program with its European partner universities through the study programs' improvement and especially with the establishment of new advanced SoCD laboratory. 2. TEMPUS SОCD PROJECT OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCION System-on-chip (SoC) technology is the ability to place multiple function "systems" on a single silicon chip, cutting development cycle while increasing product functionality, performance and quality. An SoC consists of both the hardware, and the software that controls the microcontroller, microprocessor or DSP cores, peripherals and interfaces. With the increasing adoption of SoC design over the years, it has now become the driver for many other improvements in the integrated circuit (IC) industry. In fact, SoC is now a driver for the development and use of industry-wide standards [2][3]. Based on these facts the System on Chip Design project was proposed and accepted for financing by TEMPUS JEP_41107_2006 grant [1]. The project has two EU partners, School of Telecommunication Engineering (ETSIT) at Technical University of Madrid and School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at University of Southampton. Partner country universities involved into the project are Faculty of electrical engineering and information technologies at University SS Cyril and Methodius and Elektronski Fakultet at University of Niš. One of the main goals of the project was the introduction of new an interdisciplinary Master of Science Programme on System-on-Chip design, which couples hardware and embedded software design principles. The program aims to provide students with competence and skills for designing, analyzing and verifying System on Chip systems by allowing the experience and knowledge form EU partners to be applied in partner country universities. As part of the new master program the new laboratory was established and several academic staff and students' mobility were made. 3. ACADEMIC STAFF MOBILITY In SoCD project academic staff and student's mobility were planned as a tool for enhancing the standards in partner countries.