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Multinational initiative
A multinational 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 more than one country but not many, but not 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 a supranational political grouping or range of countries in a region it is not classified as an multinational iniatiative but as an international initiative.
If the initiative involves just one country or a region within that country then it is called a national initiative.
Very often the multinational 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.
Multinational initiatives
There is an automatically maintained list of these at Category:Multinational initiatives. This has currently (June 2009) only a few members but is slowly growing.