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SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst
central role is shared between several partners. In 18 projects, one or several partners play a
strong role (several partners, however, only in the 3 rd series projects and in one 1 st series
project), 22 projects state that the network has an important role.
Collaboration often goes beyond the institutionalised collaboration through the SVC project.
Thus, 51 of the 80 ongoing projects have some collaboration also in other projects – 14 with a
legally binding agreement or contract, 15 with a committed work plan and 22 in an informal way.
From the 23 concluded projects, 16 report that collaboration with at least one project partner still
exists: in 9 cases regarding the project itself, 4 do joint research related to the project, 7 have
other joint research activities. 5 of them state that collaboration has already been established
before the SVC project. The already concluded projects also report that other uses besides the
use in the curricula have emerged through the SVC projects: stable collaboration with (some of)
the partners (13), new research activities (9) or other results such as doctoral theses, the
development of technology competence in the team, knowledge dissemination to the
international community and experience both regarding elearning and collaboration in large
teams.
Regarding the ongoing projects, all reported that contents developed by the leading house are
used by the leading house. In 70 cases, contents developed by the partner institutions are used
by themselves (in 4 projects, no contents are developed by partner institutions, while in one
case they are not used at all), in 65 projects they are used by the leading house. Jointly
developed contents exist in 60 cases, in 2 cases they are not used at all, in 56 cases by the
leading house and in 54 cases by the partner institutions. Also other institutions use developed
contents: contents by the leading house are used in other institutions in 39 cases, those
developed by the partner institutions in 31 cases, and jointly developed contents in 25 cases.
This overview shows that the importance of partner institutions in developing contents is rather
high.
We asked ongoing projects to evaluate the cooperation in the network. The results are
displayed in the following tables.
Series
4
3
2
1
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
strongly agree agree undecided disagree
Figure 6. ‘Having the network was essential for project development’
N = 80
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