Final Report Pilot Project - Relaciones Internacionales de la ...

• Ability to work in an international context.
• Ethical commitment.
—Systemic competences:
• Capacity for applying knowledge in practice.
• Research skills.
• Capacity to learn.
• Capacity to adapt to new situations.
• Capacity for generating new ideas (creativity).
• Leadership.
• Understanding of cultures and customs of other countries.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Project design and management.
• Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
• Concern for quality.
• Will to succeed.
Other interesting competences could have been included, for
example «teaching ability». This would perhaps have provided a
relevant perspective in relation to a significant sector of employment.
The responses of employers might also have been affected by the use
of the word «advanced» rather than «basic» in relation to knowledge
or grounding in the profession. The former might have been given a
higher rank.
The questionnaires were translated into the 11 official languages of the
EU by Tuning members. Each of the Universities sent and received back the
questionnaires from their graduates and employers and sent them on to
University of Deusto where the questionnaires were processed.
Each of the Universities got back its own data file by e-mail and the
graphs for the total and the different subject areas. By agreement and
for confidentiality reasons, no graph or analysis was made at central
level in relation to individual universities. Each university was expected
to do the institutional analysis, and reflection at local level and bring
this to the area group. They could, also, compare their own data with
total and area results.
5.3. Procedure
The procedure requested of the coordinators at the participating
universities with respect to the selection of the different samples was
as follows:
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