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This is the list for initiatives straddling more than one country and promoted by an international agency.

More precisely, an International initiative is a concept which is not in the UNESCO "Virtual Universities" classification scheme but is an extension ot its concept of a National initiative.

It refers to an initiative taken by a supranational political grouping or range of countries in a region - such as the European Union - to set up a programme focussed on e-learning in university-level institutions.

If the initiative involves more than one country but not many then it is not classified as an international iniatiative but as a multinational initiative.

If the initiative involves just one country or a region within that country then it is called a national initiative.

Very often the international initiative will set up a consortium or generate a newly created institution of a unique nature in the nations involved. This leads to some overlap of the UNESCO classifications.


  1. ASEAN Virtual University
  2. African Virtual University
  3. Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
  4. Arab Open University
  5. Campus Virtual de Salud Publica
  6. Commonwealth of Learning
  7. Early Childhood Development Virtual University
  8. Global Virtual University
  9. Inter-American distance education consortium
  10. Mediterranean Network of Universities
  11. OER university
  12. OpenCourseWare
  13. Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization
  14. United Nations University
  15. University of the Arctic
  16. University of the South Pacific
  17. University of the West Indies
  18. Université Virtuelle Francophone
  19. Virtual Global University
  20. Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth

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