The International Dimension in Higher Education.

Erasmus+

Erasmus+ is international

Investing in knowledge, skills and competences…

…to benefit individuals, institutions and society as a whole

✓ EU higher education policy: a stronginternational focus

✓ EU cooperation with the world: a strongeducation focus

Erasmus+ Programme Countries

Erasmus+ Partner Countries

Academic mobility

International credit mobility

Degree mobility

EMJMD

Academiccooperation

CapacityBuilding for HE

Jean Monnet Activities

Higher education cooperation opportunities

Jean Monnet 281

Internationalstaff & student

"credit" mobility 761

Capacity Building for

Higher Education 810

Erasmus Mundus Joint MA Degrees

1,000

Erasmus+ 2014-2020 budget for international actions (EUR million)

Education in the 2030 Agenda

4.3 Equal access to technical/

VET & HE

• By 2030, ensure equal access for all women & men to affordable & quality technical, vocational & tertiary education, including university

4.4 Relevant skills for decent

work

• By 2030, substantially increase number of youth & adults who have relevant skills, including technical & vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs & entrepreneurship

External Policy objectives

Relevant, inclusive &

quality higher education

Necessary knowledge, skills & competences

Synergies between teaching, research

& societal challenges

More & better opportunities

for young people

Inclusive, entrepreneurial & innovative higher education sector

EU External Policy objectives – Higher Education

More & better opportunities

for young people

Inclusive, entrepreneurial & innovative higher education sector

Relevant, inclusive &

quality higher education

Synergies between teaching, research

& societal challenges

Necessary knowledge, skills & competences

European Higher Education

in the World

Erasmus+ Policy objectives (1)

Increasing the impact of

EU Development Policy:

an Agenda for Change

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Erasmus+ Policy objectives (2)

Holistic

strategies

Stronger

cooperation

HEIs

profile &

position

Attract

talent

Erasmus+ Policy objectives (3)

Remove

obstacles

joint/double

degreesLink dev. coop &

internationalisation

strategies

Staff &

students =

cooperation

vectors

150,000 mobilities planned since 2015 and counting…

61

119

92

122

112

11

3227

3944

Call 2014 Call 2015 Call 2016 Call 2017 Call 2018

Proposals received Projects selected

153 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees

Over 6,700 Erasmus Mundus Scholarships Awarded

76 124250

358 272283

508

990

1579

1083238

274

437

314

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Programme C. Partner C. Partner C. Windows

583 Projects, 147 Partner Coord., 2247 HEIs

Curriculum development

43%

Relations HEIs & wider world23%

Modernisation of HEIs

21%

Modernisation of HE systems

7%

HE systems & the wider world

6%

Project Focus

72

509

Structural Projects(Involving National

Authorities)

Joint Projects

Jean Monnet projects are popular outside Europe too…

139 146 138120

9256 69

60

2968

2152

2015 2016 2017 2018

Programme C. Partner C. Additional country budget (PI)

Elements of success

✓ Bottom up approach

✓ Very flexible- covers all possible cooperation

✓ Flexibility with "window" system

✓ Since Erasmus+ more predictibility

✓ Complementarity between actions

✓ Never stopped in any country, even during crisis-always an open window for academiccommunities

✓ No fear of brain drain

Education and Culture

Positive impact on

✓ Employability, soft skills, quality of teaching & curricula, QA, management and governance, "South-South" cooperation

✓ Regional co-operation & harmonisation, alignment with national priorities, Bologna reforms

✓ intercultural dialogue,

✓ Sustainability of cooperation

✓ Brain drain not an issue

✓ European projects now part of internationalisation strategies, less ad-hoc cooperation

✓ Development of real international relation offices

Education and Culture

What can be improved

✓ Less individual approaches, more institutionalownership

✓ Not enough structural measures with Ministries

✓ Dissemination, valorisation, spill over to national level

✓ Limited impact on inclusiveness and reaching out to vulnerable groups

✓ Cooperation still with traditional partners

Education and Culture

What can be improved

✓ Virtual exchanges, online activities, blendedlearning

✓ Innovation

✓ Links with research

✓ Less stress on engineering and science, more on humanities (linked to EU external priorities)

Education and Culture

Looking ahead

✓ Need for stability

✓ Expand to other sectors e.g. VET

✓ Intra-regional cooperation- mobility schemes

✓ Inclusiveness, refugees, link to migration

Education and Culture

Regional alumni associations

ASAAAfrican Student and Alumni Association

https://www.western-balkans-alumni.eu/about-wbaa/

…to be expanded to other regions in the future?

Erasmus+

New: Intra-regional mobility

Erasmus 2021-2027

→ Continuation and expansion of HE and youth mobility

Jean Monnet actions

Physical and virtual mobility actions

→ New activities in VET and sport

Capacity building activities→ Support ongoing activities in HE and youth

→ New activities in VET and sport

"more international"

Erasmus+

A more international Erasmus 2021-2027

• Boosting international mobility and cooperation

• Extending international dimension to new sectors, such as vocational education and training

• Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees for European students at international level

• Erasmus international complemented by EU external instruments