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4. Impact of the project 
This mobility project has had a mutual impact and benefit for both universities. 
The German partners were aware that the way of steering the tertiary sector of education 
in Uzbekistan was different to that in Europe and saw for both sides an attractive 
potential for the further development. Germans have learnt from the Uzbek system about 
fast and radical change processes, and Uzbeks have learnt from Germans to rely on 
individual professionals, intrinsically motivated styles of learning and teaching, the 
positive effects of group dynamics and cultural change.
The project was in line with the internationalization strategies of both participating 
institutions. One of HSBHV’s goals of the internationalization strategy is to reinforce the 
cooperation with their partner institutions. HSBHV has cooperated with TSUE in 
developing other projects before. This Erasmus+ mobility project was the first one that 
made a regular staff exchange and thus a regular knowledge transfer and exchange of 
experience possible between both institutions. Increased international staff mobility is 
also one of the goals of HSBHV’s strategy. It gives a chance for the staff to broaden their 
views on their field of interest and get some new input from, in this case, an Uzbek 
perspective. The staff exchange also offered new insights into the field of management 
and economics for HSBHV’s students who participated in the guest lectures taught by the 
teacher from TSUE.
One of the goals of TSUE is to establish strategic partnerships to internationalize 
their teaching and research in order to gain recognition in the education market. Through 
participating in the project they could offer both their students and staff guest lectures by 
the incoming German teachers where they could exchange their knowledge and broaden 
their horizon within their field of expertise. Participating in international projects could 
also increase their attractiveness among prospective students and staff as their reputation 
on the education market rises. Another goal is to prepare their staff for the global labor 
market through promoting the exchange of professors, researchers and administrative 
staff. Also this goal could be reached with the help of this project.
The staff training had a substantial impact on institutional capacity building of 
TSUE. After completion of staff mobility, the staff that benefitted from the mobility 
organized a seminar where they transmitted their gained knowledge and ideas to other 
university staff by introducing the modern methods and techniques to the teaching-
learning process, especially focusing on the methods and techniques applied in Germany.
The progressive and innovative ideas which were gained during mobility were introduced 
as well as disseminated among the academic sphere through successful implementation 
of those ideas. This was realized in the form of publishing articles in the local 
newspapers and presenting conference papers. Students and staff from TSUE and 
HSBHV who got in touch with the international guests through meetings and lectures 
could use their English and thus improve their language skills and also got to know more 
about another culture.
Through this mobility project the TSUE has increased its capacity to cooperate at 
international level in a greater extent in a way of increasing its attractiveness, openness 
and international dimension. First of all, through participation of its staff in training 
activities abroad, especially in the special training course for lecturers on “Innovations in 
academic teaching and learning”, the TSUE could show the academic and professional 
potential of its staff not only to German lecturers but also to lecturers of other foreign 
universities from the US, Netherlands, Belgium, China etc., so that they could be also 
aware of the national Uzbek model of higher education. This practice has also extended 

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the TSUE’s capacity to get in touch and cooperate with the colleagues of those foreign 
universities in the future. Secondly, through conducting teaching activities abroad 
TSUE’s staff could demonstrate the Uzbek teaching style and the knowledge and skills of 
Uzbek teachers in the subject area of Business and Administration to the German 
students. This practice has also brought TSUE closer to be attractive for foreign students 
and prepare its staff for the global labor market.
The staff from TSUE, during their stay at HSBHV, had the chance to connect with 
organizations outside of HSBHV as well. They made contacts with staff from 
Hochschule Bremen (HSB) and by that started up a cooperation which resulted in a study 
visit of HSB staff at TSUE already, in signing the cooperation agreement, and in 
expressing interest in setting up an inter-institutional agreement in order to develop and 
implement an Erasmus+ mobility project for students and staff. According to the bilateral 
agreement, it was planned with HSB to exchange staff for short-term guest teaching in 
the framework of the DAAD Eastern Partnership Programme. Also, during the staff 
training at HSBHV the TSUE staff made contacts with lecturers from Carleton College 
(USA), Utrecht Institute for Business Administration, Breda University of Applied 
Sciences (Netherlands), Shandong Jiaotong University (China).
In turn, the staff from HSBHV, during their stay at TSUE, had an opportunity to 
visit Tashkent Financial Institute, Tashkent branch of Plekhanov Russian Economical 
University and Tashkent Banking and Finance Academy, National University of 
Uzbekistan and Presidential Academy of Public Administration to take part in 
international scientific conferences, as well as to meet with officials and trainees of the 
Main Scientific and Methodological Center (BIMM) under the Ministry of Higher and 
Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan to do presentation on 
modern methods of curriculum development.