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The European Weblog platform for Mobile Students

According to the main aim of the Bologna-Process mobile studies within the European Union shall be enabled free of organisational and administrative obstacles until 2010. By 2012 a number of at least 3 million individual participants in student mobility shall be reached. Besides necessity to reduce organisational barriers the number of mobile students in reality will also depend on decisions of individual students to study abroad, or not. Theses decisions are strongly influenced by personal, motivational and self-related considerations of individuals. 1) The main aim of Mobiblog is to provide a new-based bottom-up but well structured and multi-lingual service at the European level for peer-to peer exchange of experiences of individual mobile students in a web long area containing all aspects of mobile studies like motivation, social issues, communication and cultural issues apart from organisational and administrative problems and how students overcame these obstacles and barriers. 2) To develop a structured and comprehensive online guide for the target topic this will be connected in both directions by multiple hyperlinks with the web log area. 3) To build up a network of universities in Europe to adopt the service developed into their portfolio of services for mobile students, to encourage them to use the Mobiblog service within their portfolio services for mobile students, to replace existing single-institutional and paper-based services and to integrate Mobiblog to existing virtual campuses. By producing the three main outputs, 1) web log area,2) online guide, and 3) then network of universities, Mobiblog envisages short-term impact of significantly increasing students' motivation for doing mobile studies in Europe, providing structured top-related information for actors in higher education for using synergies in services for mobile students, rising awareness about the topic, topic-related learning within the participating institutions, providing a model for an adequate use of weblogs and peer-to peer software in general for learning and education. Additional long-term impact is foreseen in contribution to increase of number of participants in students' mobility in Europe, to improve quality in services and tutoring for mobile students and to encourage joined actions among universities in the field of ERASMUS activities
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