Proposal for
establishing new
partnerships for
students'
mobility
December 8
2014
"Europe in Exchange" project is an AEGEE-Europe projects and aims to
bring all the students and young people in Europe and neighbouring
countries the possibility to take part in mobility programmes.
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Proposal by
AEGEE-x
Purpose of the proposal
The purpose of this proposal is to establish new partnerships for mobility with other higher
education institutions from EU and neighbor countries, diversifying the possibilities for
incoming and outgoing students.
This action is part of the activities of Europe in Exchange, European project of AEGEEEurope.
What is the proposal of new partnerships about?
Studying, working or volunteering abroad offers a huge range of benefits for the students
taking part in them, increasing their intercultural awareness, sense of initiative and
improving their employability, as businesses value the wide experience of those who have
spent time abroad. Also the participating institutions gain in the process, increasing their
international links and learning from other institutions. However, many students miss this
life changing opportunity because there are institutions which do not participate in students
mobility. There are countries and universities where partnerships are very few, and only a
limited amount of students can go on exchange.
Europe in Exchange encourages and supports universities to establish new partnerships with
foreign Institutions in order to:
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increase the number of the incoming exchange students and open more positions &
placements
increase the number of the outgoing exchange students
include in the current Erasmus map countries in the EU Neighbourhood Policy and
the EuroMed countries
What can this proposal offer to my institution?
Europe in Exchange project, in cooperation with many different local organizations of
AEGEE-Europe, is organizing a campaign in order to establish new partnerships for students'
mobility. With this purpose, we are contacting different universities and other Higher
Education institutions in the EU and neighborhood countries (Eastern Europe, Western
Balkans and South Mediterranean countries). AEGEE is present in all European continent
with 200 local students' associations, all of them in connection with at least one higher
education institution. Moreover, AEGEE has partnerships with many other European
students associations, which gives us an easy and fast access to a vast amount of Higher
Education institutions all around Europe. This network can make much
easier the
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work to universities which want to establish new partnerships, as we can facilitate the
creation of contacts. In order to find higher education institutions in South Mediterranean
and other Arab countries, we are collaborating with EuroArab project, another European
project of AEGEE-Europe, aiming to establish and maintain a sustainable relationship
between the European and Arab youth.
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AEGEE-Europe
AEGEE (Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe / European Students’
Forum) is a European student organisation that promotes cooperation, communication and
integration amongst young people in Europe. AEGEE counts with 13 000 members, active in
more than 200 university cities in 40 European countries. It provides a platform for young
people to work together on cross border activities such as conferences, seminars,
exchanges, training courses, Summer Universities, Case Study trips and Working Group
meetings.
The association aims to promote, through the student world, the European idea amongst
young people in Europe. Thus AEGEE strives to foster European integration, democracy,
human rights, tolerance, cross-border co-operation, mobility and a European dimension in
education.
AEGEE has participated very actively in the field of students’ mobility along all its history.
One of AEGEE’s most well-known achievements is the effective lobbying for the creation of
the Erasmus programme in 1987. Another example is the “Socrates on the Move” project,
which promoted Socrates program, developed in 2001 in collaboration with ESN (Erasmus
Student Network) and ESIB (The National Unions of Students in Europe, now European
Students’ Union).
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About ‘Europe in Exchange’
Europe in Exchange (EiE) is an AEGEE-Europe project which aims to bring to all students and
young people in Europe and neighbouring countries the possibility to take part in mobility
programmes. The project gets in contact with different stakeholders working or interested in
mobility of students, as higher education institutions, students organizations, policy makers
and the own students; in order to collaborate with them to increase the mobility possibilities
and to facilitate the access to them.
The project has five objectives:
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Make students better informed about the existing mobility programmes and
possibilities and its benefits.
Advocate for an adequate structure and funding for mobility of students and young
people, both in the EU and its neighbouring countries.
Increase the number of destinations and possibilities for mobility in universities
inside and outside the current Erasmus zone.
Support students’ organizations to reduce obstacles that students face, as the
language barrier, to benefit from mobility programmes.
Support AEGEE locals to benefit in their actions connected with our aim.
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