Sector: Curriculum Development
Sub-action: Higher Education
Unibo structure involved: International Relations Division
Unibo Team: Filippo Sartor, Valentina Manzato
Project Duration in months: 24
Start Date: 2/10/2017
End Date: 1/10/2019
Budget: 568.884,00 euro
Unibo Budget: 32.754 euro
Coordinator: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA - PADOVA Italy
Partners:
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUM -UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA-BOLOGNA Italy
- UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA GRANADA Spain
- UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS POITIERS CEDEX France
- UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI-IASI Romania
- CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY-Cardiff United Kingdom
- UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D'ORAN-ORAN Algeria
- UNIVERSITE DE BISKRA BISKRA Algeria
- UNIVERSITE ABDELMALEK ESSAADI-TETOUAN Morocco
- UNIVERSITE HASSAN 1ER SETTAT-SETTAT Morocco
- UNIVERSITE DE GAFSA GAFSA Tunisia
- UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR MONASTIR Tunisia
- COIMBRA GROUP ASBL BRUXELLES Belgium
- UNIMED - UNIONE DELLE UNIVERSITA DEL MEDITTERANEO-ROMA Italy
Associated Partners:
- AGENCE UNIVERSITAIRE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, DELEGATION CHARGEE DES…-BRUXELLES Belgium
- ASSOCIATION OF ARAB UNIVERSITIES-Amman Jordan
Description
Internationalization in the MENA region is a quite complex undertaking and international mobility has become a key tool to improve the quality of Higher Education, thus addressing the regional need for a strong skills base to uphold economic and social development. Within this framework, Erasmus+ and its new International Credit Mobility (ICM).
Scheme represent a new challenge for MENA governments and HEIs, who feel the need to share information and best practices to develop an innovative, effective and efficient management of ICM.
ICMED precisely contributes to building Partner countries’ HEIs capacity in the field of international relations, with a specific focus on E+ ICM, thus reinforcing EU partners cooperation in the region and improving the quality of mobility flows under KA107. More specifically, the project aims at strengthening partner HEIs staff capacity to deal with ICM & International Mobility in general, through the implementation of a comprehensive Training Programme to be held in the region. First, a Consultation Process will be carried out so as to map the current status of ICM implementation at institutional and regional level. Based on its results, 4 training weeks, as well as a comprehensive International Mobility Toolkit, will be developed. A set of Policy Briefs addressing local authorities and the EC will also be prepared with the aim to contribute to the discussion on the future generation of ICM programmes (E+ / national) through the project inputs and recommendations. Outputs and results will be disseminated and multiplied during the Train-the Trainers event and the Final Conference.
At local level, MENA HEIs will benefit from the project results, exploiting achieved skills and establishing new privileged cooperation forms with EU and other African HEIs; at national & EU level, local NEOs & the EC will be able to reflect on ICM management and implementation as well as on its potential revision and restructuring in the MENA region.
