Mobility Project Funding
Participants in the Work Team: Funding
| Name | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
| Simone Ravaioli |
KION, Italy |
sravaioli@kion.it |
| Paul Malone |
Waterford Institute of Technologies, Ireland |
pmalone@tssg.org |
| Juergen Jaenhert | University of Stuttgart |
jaehnert@rus.uni-stuttgart.de |
| Christina Stracke |
University of Duisburg Essen |
Christian.Stracke@icb.uni-due.de |
Funding Opportunities
Lifelong Learning Program 2010
http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc1943_en.htm
It would seem to me that the most suitable action for what we need are the ICT KA3 Multilateral Projects and KA3 Multilateral Networks. We could possibly submit complementary proposal to both (we would need to ensure that there would be no dependencies between the proposals to allow either one to be funded without the other). There isn't a huge amount of funding there, but certainly enough to cover ongoing networking and exchange of knowledge which up until now are being funded by the individual participants.
It looks as there may be an opportunity to submit a proposal under the ERASMUS Structural Network action - This action is designed to help improve and modernise a specific aspect of higher education access, mobility, organisation, management and the development of the knowledge triangle.
See p.51 of this document
Abstract (draft)
Background and rationale
Internationalization has shown to be a factor with growing political and societal importance in higher education policy making. Research shows that the mobility programs have had a leading role in internationalization policies in higher education at national, European and international level. Mobility is the "hallmark" of the European Higher Education Area
From the vantage point of the European Commission, the issue of mobility is inextricably linked to the Erasmus Programme. The Erasmus programme has brought mobility to a wide range of countries and students from different backgrounds. The programme has grown from above 3 000 students in 1987 to over 182 000 in 2007/08.
Thanks to Erasmus, some 1.86 million students have studied abroad since 1987 and the objective is to achieve a cumulative total of 3 million by 2012.
These figures are impressive, but they only reach some 4% of the graduate population. Erasmus and non- Erasmus mobility combined is expected to reach 10% of the graduates by 2010. An ambitious but achievable objective for the longer term could be the prior mobility experience of 20% of graduates by 2020.
Aim and Objectives
The main aim of the proposal is set up a network of Higher Education stakeholders and software implementers designed to help modernize Mobility in the EHEA by collaborating toward to adoption of standard practices for the automation of International Mobility processes.
In order to support the mobility goals set forth by the EC, the NEW Mobility to achieve the following specific objectives:
- To create a common discussion platform among institutions and organizations with a relevant experience in the development and management of ERASMUS mobility processes.
- To analyse the existing administrative procedures and practices in the management of mobility
- To define (and develop) a communication infrastructure and services in order to streamline mobility procedures by:
o Interconnect universities in a international network
o ;Reduce administrative inefficiencies/problems in handling mobility data and procedures (intra-university)
o Streamline the communication flow among partner institutions (inter-universities )
o Digitize mobility documents (secure, authentic, transparent, tamper-proof)
o Produce reliable and accessible mobility statistics (EC interest)
- To aid European Universities in reaching the challenging mobility goals set by the Commission
In particular the Network will provide the HEI community good practice examples in
the following domains:
- Communication between the host and home institution - Exchange of student and course data
- Management of critical mobility information
- Integration of incoming student career data into local systems
- Electronic bilateral agreements, nominations, learning agreements, transcripts of records
- Portability of financial aids
- Credit recognition
ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT-PSP)
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm
The 2010 call will be launched in January.
Looking at the draft work programme and it would seem that we could submit to Objective 6.2 Multilingual online services. Have a look at the WP on page 35 for a description. I think Mobility Project could fit in there (the focus is on Pilot rollout) but we would obviously need a strong multilingual slant (which is clearly relevant in the student mobility domain). Note the following paragraph on page 36:
"Proposals should build on, extend and/or re-engineer, as appropriate, existing online
services which are not yet broadly and effectively multilingual. If the proposal
envisages setting up a brand new service, it should address a widely recognised and
clearly justified multi-national need arising from e.g. legislation or market failures. "
I think that fits quite well with the Mobility Project.
There is an information day in Brussels on Jan 14th (provisional day) where we could bring a short 2-3 page document and check that we are in line with the objectives. The relevant project officers would be present so we would get a first hand feedback on the day.