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National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation Beate Körner 22 February, 2011 in Dublin

Infoday on Irish International Education Strategy ERASMUS Intensive Programmes The German Experience. National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation Beate Körner 22 February, 2011 in Dublin. ERASMUS Intensivprogramme – general introduction. exist since 2000/2001

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National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation Beate Körner 22 February, 2011 in Dublin

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  1. Infoday on Irish International Education Strategy ERASMUS Intensive ProgrammesThe German Experience National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation Beate Körner 22 February, 2011 in Dublin

  2. ERASMUS Intensivprogramme – general introduction • exist since 2000/2001 • centrally coordinated by EU-Commission until 2006 • since the beginning of LLP 2007 decentralized  constant increase (1961 IP‘s overall)

  3. ERASMUS Intensivprogramme – general introduction • Why IP‘s? • reaction of EU Commission on changing mobility behavior • shorter stays abroad • complementation of individual mobility within Europe by group mobility • Innovation in higher education through ERASMUS Intensive Programmes • support of innovative, interdisciplinary topics with a European added value

  4. Characteristics of an Intensive Programme • multinational compact courses (summer schools) for students and teachers • duration: min. 10 working days up to 6 weeks • min. 10 students that travel abroad (max. 60 students, 20 teachers) • participation of at least 3 different ERASMUS countries • primary emphasis on: • development of interdisciplinary topics and approaches • European added value • highly innovative development of new professional approaches and teaching methods to be included in the curricula of HEI • full recognition • duration of project: up to 3 years (1 new application + 2 renewals)

  5. Prerequisites for an application • Coordinating institutions submits the application to the National Agency of its home country • Project partners: one coordinating eligible institution as well as at least two eligible partner institutions from two participation countries (at least one EU country) • Participating countries: 27 member states of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey, from 2011: Croatia and Switzerland • All participating institutions must have a valid EUC (Erasmus University Charter) • All participating students/ teachers must be enrolled resp. employed at one of the participating partner institutions • All study programs and levels can participate (i.e. Bachelor, Master, PhD) • Non-eligible activities: symposia, conferences • IP must not be part of an ERASMUS Mundus master program

  6. Benefits of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes (I) • Innovation factor of IPs • IP as creative "think tank" • opening and extending various new national opportunities • giving new professional impulses • Impulse for new strategies of problem solving • Impulse for new (joint) curricula

  7. Benefits of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes (II) • IP‘s as tool for internationalization of HEI‘s • enhancement of exisiting course curricula by interdisciplinary compact courses that cannot be offered within the ‚normal‘ curriculum • Development of the attractiveness of HEI through presenting it as interesting study location for local and international students and teachers • Intensification of partnerships with other European HEI • IP als starting point of the development of joint curricula with partner universities abroad

  8. Benefits of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes (III) IP‘s as supportive instrument for individual mobility of students and teachers • multinational working groups for students and university teachers  internationalization at home • Participation in IP giving new perspectives for subsequent individual mobility • IP as mobility incentive for less known European regions

  9. Benefits of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes (IV) Personal benefits for students and teachers • acquisition of detailed knowledge of academic cultures in other European countries (understanding of cultural & linguistic differences) • Training of intercultural and didactic competencies • Acquisition of diverse professional impulses • creation of stable and sustainable cooperations, networks and friendships • Awareness of participations for what it means to be a ‚European citizen‘ (European identity)

  10. Facts and Figures EU Statistics on IP’s - comparison 07/08 – 08/09 • Number of courses: 257 => 319 (24.1% increase) • Top organising countries: FR (37), DE (31), AT (30) • Students & teachers participating: 11 822 => 13 560 • Students: 10 061 (74.2%) / Teachers: 3499 • Average participants per course: 46 => 42.5 • Subject area: ‘Social Sciences, Business and Law’, (78) and ‘Science, Mathematics and Computing’, (55) • Duration: 12 =>12.2 days (10 – 14.2 days) • Average age: 24.9 years • 49.8% new IP, 32.6% 2nd year and 17.6% 3rd year • Average ECTS awarded: 5.2 11

  11. Total number of students in IPs per coordinating country 12

  12. Total number of teachers in IPs per coordinating country 13

  13. Subject Area of IP’s 14

  14. Taking a look at Germany EU Lifelong Learning Programme COMENIUS ERASMUS LEONARDO GRUNDTVIG National Agencies NA PAD NA DAAD NA BIBB NA BIBB Students Staff

  15. Introduction of DAAD Deutscher AkademischerAustauschDienst a self-governing organisation of the German institutions of higher education with 232 member institutions and 123 student bodies

  16. The DAAD has... 64 Regional Offices and Information Centres (IC) all over the world an annual budget of around 397 mio € 475 DAAD Lecturers 67,000 DAAD scholarship holders (32,000 ERASMUS scholarships holders) around 600 professors on 90 selection committees Introduction to the DAAD • The DAAD is... • National Agency for EU-Mobility Programmes • National IAESTE Secretariat (traineeships and internships) • (Co-)responsible for the Marketing Consortium GATE • (Co-)responsible for the TestDaF Institut • (Co-)responsible for “uni-assist”

  17. The DAAD network worldwide

  18. Goals and expenditures of the DAAD (Plan 2010) Scholarshipsfor foreigners Supporting future foreign elites at German universities andresearch institutes € 83 m Scholarships for Germans Supporting future German Leaders in their studies and Research abroad (including ERASMUS) € 111 m Internationalisation of German universities Increasing the international appeal of German universities and promoting the international dimension in German higher education € 75 m Educational cooperation with developing countries Promoting academic, economic, and democratic development in developing and reform countries € 76 m Promoting German Studies and the German language abroad Promoting the German language and German Studies at foreign universities € 47 m

  19. Intensive Programmes with German coordination • 2006/07 centralised under SOCRATES • 23 Applications • 17 Approvals: 9 Renewals / 8 New IP • 2007/0828 applications: 13 renewals / 15 new IP • 22 approvals: 13 renewals / 9 new IP • 2008/09 39 applications: 14 renewals / 25 new IP • 31 approvals: 14 renewals / 17 new IP • 2009/10 48 applications: 20 renewals / 28 new IP • 37 approvals: 19 renewals / 18 new IP • 2010/11 47 applications : 24 renewals / 23 new IP • 40 approvals : 23 renewals / 17 new IP

  20. Subject area of German IP‘s

  21. Some examples of German IP‘s • increased attractiveness of IP‘s within the last years • Wide variety of IP‘s from Archeology to Physics • examples: • IP Bib: Das Grimm-Zentrum - (k)ein Bibliotheksmärchen (Humboldt University Berlin) comparison of European libraries • SEICOP: „Small Scale European Integration by Cross Border Cooperation“ (University Koblenz Landau)  interaction of European border towns/regions in everyday life • German IP with Irish participation: ‚The Presence of the Past – European Cultures of Memory‘  investigates various intercultural and interdisciplinary phenomena of the presence of the past in cultural and artistic representations

  22. DAAD Conference on Intensive Programmes • ‚Save the date‘: • halftime of LLP • time to draw a balance • 19/20 October 2011: international conference „Mobility and Innovation in the European context“ – an evaluation of Intensive programmes 2007 -2010 in Bonn, Germany

  23. Success factors Good project management: goals, reliable partnerships, clear methodology, project monitoring & evaluation, dissemination of results Clear definition of: • goals and intention of the IP • target audience (subjects, level of students) • main activities and work plan • learning outcomes • expected outputs (results, products, curricula modules, websites, publications, etc.) And never forget: innovation, interdisciplinarity, European added value

  24. Informationen zur IP-Antragstellung 2011/12 • Thank you very much for your attention and good luck with your IP application! • Questions??? • Contact details: • Beate Körner • koerner@daad.de • http://eu.daad.de

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