Movinter

The Movinter - Enhancing Virtual Mobility to foster institutional cooperation and internationalisation of curricula project was selected in 2008, and is funded from 1 December 2008 until 30 November 2010 by the European Commission under the Erasmus Mundus Action 4 programme.

The MOVINTER web site is at http://www.movinter.eu/

Summary

The project aims to contribute to increase cooperation and structural link among Higher Education Institutions of Europe and Latin America through an in-depth exploration of the potential of ICT -and particularly Virtual Mobility -to internationalise curricula and learning experiences.

In order to achieve this MOVINTER will :

• Review literature, legislation, regulations, policies and best practices in the field;
• Elaborate and validate with experts an action plan to exploit virtual mobility and ICT for international cooperation;
• Design a Modelling Engine aimed to support the capacity of HEIs to design and implement an integrated use of Virtual Mobility to enhance internationalisation of study experiences, curricula and academic titles;
• Create the EU-LA MOVINTER Stakeholders community of leading practitioners, policy and decision makers and researchers;
• Animate policy dialogue in the field;
• Disseminate project results and elaborate a transferable model to other contexts and fields so to ensure the sustainability of the action.

Expected outcomes

The main long-term outcomes will be:

• the MOVINTER Modelling Engine providing tools and prototype services to support academic institutions in the exploitation of ICT and virtual mobility as means to foster international cooperation.;
• the MOVINTER White Paper containing a Roadmap and recommendations on how to exploit the potential of ICT and Virtual Mobility to improve the nature and the effectiveness of international academic cooperation;
• the MOVINTER Stakeholders Community gathering experts, researchers, policy and decision makers and practitioners interested in implementing VM strategies to increase international cooperation

Target groups

The target groups are:

• European and Latin American HEIs;
• Policy and decision makers;
• Academic and professional associations and HE networks;
• Student's associations and students;
• Public at large
• The research community.

Coordinator

• Universidad de Granada - Spain

Partners

• EuroPACE ivzw - Belgium, co-ordination by Annemie Boonen,
• SCIENTER Bologna - Italy
• Università di Bologna - Italy
• Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencas Sociales - Sede Académica México, Méxoco Federal District - Mexico
• Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City - Mexico

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