National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation

Beate Körner

22 February, 2011 in Dublin

Infoday on Irish International Education Strategy

ERASMUS Intensive ProgrammesThe German Experience

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)

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

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 countriesprimary emphasis on:

development of interdisciplinary topics and approaches European added valuehighly innovative development of new professional

approaches and teaching methods to be included in the curricula of HEI

full recognitionduration of project: up to 3 years (1 new application + 2 renewals)

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

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

Benefits of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes (I)

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

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

Benefits of ERASMUS Intensive Programmes (III)

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)

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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

Facts and Figures

Total number of students in IPs per coordinating country

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Total number of teachers in IPs per coordinating country

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Subject Area of IP’s

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Taking a look at Germany

a self-governing organisation of the German institutions of higher education

with 232 member institutionsand 123 student bodies

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Introduction of DAAD

Introduction to the DAAD

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

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”

The DAAD network worldwide

Goals and expenditures of the DAAD (Plan 2010)

Educational cooperation with

developing countries

Promoting academic, economic,and democratic development

in developing and reform countries

€ 76 m

Internationalisationof German universities

Increasing the international appeal of German universities

and promotingthe international dimension in

German higher education

€ 75 m

PromotingGerman Studies and

the German language abroad

Promoting the German language and German Studiesat foreign universities

€ 47 m

Scholarshipsfor foreigners

Supporting future foreign elitesat German universities and

research institutes

€ 83 m

Scholarships for Germans

Supporting future GermanLeaders in their studies and

Research abroad (including ERASMUS)

€ 111 m

2006/07 centralised under SOCRATES

23 Applications

17 Approvals: 9 Renewals / 8 New IP

2007/08 28 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 IP2009/10 48 applications: 20 renewals / 28 new IP

37 approvals: 19 renewals / 18 new IP2010/11 47 applications : 24 renewals / 23 new IP

40 approvals : 23 renewals / 17 new IP

Intensive Programmes with German coordination

Subject area of German IP‘s

ERASMUS Intensive Programmes with German coordination 2008/09

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Natural SciencesMathematics, InformaticsLanguages and PhilologicsHumanitiesSocial SciencesGeography, GeologyEngineeringEducation, TeacherTrainingBusiness studies and ManagementArt and DesignArcitectureAgricultural Sciences

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

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

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

Success factors

Thank you very much for your attention and good luck with your IP application!

Questions???

Contact details: Beate Körnerkoerner@daad.dehttp://eu.daad.de

Informationen zur IP-Antragstellung 2011/12