Numbers

By the end of June 2010, eighty five VAP visits have taken place at universities in CEE (35), Russia (36) and FSU (14) since the program's inception in 1998, of which fourteen were follow-up visits, which makes the total number of benefiting institutions seventy one. Of the seventeen visits under the Carnegie Corporation grants, seven took place in FSU states and ten in Russia. 16% of the visits were follow-up visits. In the original proposal for the VAP under the WKKF grant no reference was made to a follow-up of the visits. The importance of the re-visits had been recognized on the basis of the experience of the first visits and the feedback by host institutions and visiting advisors. As far as character and location is concerned, the idea was to select more provincial and not necessarily only prestigious universities, as to create a broader impact. Only a quarter of the visits took place in universities in capital cities.

Table I: complete overview of all the eighty five VAP visits over the period 1998-2010.