The Academic Value of Mobility
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
A Long-Term Survey of the Swedish Economy highlights four trends in particular. This initiative consist of two actions related to two of the trends, internationalisation and demographic development, by proposing two initiatives focused on 1) Mobility for outbound students, and 2) Higher education in the face of increasing migration.1) In Sweden 14% of the graduates the year 2013/14 had been mobile during their studies, which is below the target formulated in the Mobility strategy adopted in the Bucharest Communiqué. Two of the main obstacles to student mobility in Sweden identified in the Bologna Implementation Report 2015, are “curriculum/study organisation” and “lack of information and encouragement”.The obstacle will be addressed in a project with the long term goal to increase the number of outgoing students, enhance quality in mobility and to reach new target groups. It will be done by building on experiences from previous contract period to highlight the academic value of mobility. The project will focus on two areas:- how to integrate the mobility period in the curriculum planning, including formulation of intercultural/international learning outcomes in line with the overall LO.- how to better integrate mobility guidance in regular study counselling.The short term objective is to revise the recommendations developed during the previous period, disseminate them and evaluate the experiences from the pilots started in the previous period.2) More than a million refugees crossed the borders into the EU in 2015, 163 000 of them applied for asylum in Sweden. To make use of their competences and to facilitate employment, we need to make our HE systems more inclusive. The objective is to share experiences on European level on methods for recognition of prior learning and how to include and provide better learning opportunities for refugees. A conference on these themes where practitioners, policy makers and stakeholders in the EHEA meet will be held.
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