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Move-IT – Seminars Promoting Virtual Support for Mobile Students. Ilse Op de Beeck, AVNet-K.U.Leuven & EuroPACE ivzw Mart Achten, EuroPACE ivzw. 1 November 2009 – 31 December 2010 Project supported by the European Union under the Lifelong Learning Programme – Erasmus/Accompanying Measures
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Move-IT – Seminars Promoting Virtual Support for Mobile Students Ilse Op de Beeck, AVNet-K.U.Leuven & EuroPACE ivzw Mart Achten, EuroPACE ivzw
1 November 2009 – 31 December 2010 • Project supported by the European Union under the Lifelong Learning Programme – Erasmus/Accompanying Measures • Follow-up project VM-BASE, “Virtual Mobility Before and After Student Exchanges” (Socrates-Minerva, 2006-2008)
Objectives To maximize the impact of physical mobility of students, teachers and staff by: • raising awareness • bringing together projects and potential users • emphasizing the transfer and take-up of project results by new users through the Move-IT website and the organisation of events
Promoting and increasing the visibility of (former and current) projects and initiatives on blended/virtual mobility and e-coaching
Project partners • EuroPACE ivzw (BE) – coordinator • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – AVNet (BE) • Coimbra Group (BE)
Target groups • Higher education institutions, • especially those involved in student mobility • management • Students & student networks • E-learning community, policy makers, other stakeholders in student mobility
Portal on blended mobility http://move-it.europace.org • Basic project info (description, partners, contact,...) • Events: Announcement & collection of related materials (presentations, recordings, etc.) • Presentation best-practice projects & initiatives • Interesting links & resources
Two seminars on blended mobility Presentations & discussion sessions • 10 June 2010, Coimbra conference, Iasi (RO) 40 participants • 14 October 2010, Leuven (BE) 33 participants
Two webinars on e-coaching • 7 May 2010 (73 participants) 27 May 2010 (49 participants) • Face-to-face, Leuven (BE) • Webconferencing (Adobe Connect) • Livestream • Recordings available on website
Final event • Move-IT Home and Away Forum “Coaching exchange students from a distance” 1 December 2010, pre-conference event of Online Educa Berlin (DE) • Forum proceedings (online & printed guidebook)
Other dissemination materials & channels • Mailings: • news and information published in relevant newsletters • personal invitations sent to stakeholders • Leaflet, distributed at numerous events, conferences, meetings, ...; • Conference presentations (e.g. Edulearn, EADTU, ICL, BEST student symposia…); • Publications: conference papers, articles,..; • Press releases;
Exploitation (1) • Establishing links with similar initiatives (EU-funded projects as well as individual best-practices of HEIs) on the topic of blended mobility and e-coaching. • Launch call for cases at the start of the project • Invitation to project leaders of identified innovative initiatives to contribute to the Move-IT web portal and/or to be a speaker or participant at one of the organised events
Exploitation (2) • Making available the Move-IT outcomes to an as wide audience as possible during & after the project duration. • Making available the recordings of webinars & other events online • Creating Forum proceedings & distributing to stakeholders.
After the project duration • Formalising commitment of Move-IT project partners in a final exploitation agreement • Continued promotion of outcomes in regular activities of partners (new projects, newsletters, seminars, presentations,...)
More information? mart.achten@avnet.kuleuven.be ilse.opdebeeck@avnet.kuleuven.be http://move-it.europace.org