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

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 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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Total number of students in IPs per coordinating country
1400
1392
Total
Participants home students
Participants incoming students
1200
1052
1000 948
800 754
708
614 610
600
540
497
472
396 399
400 356
254
289
260
200
205 205
184
159
140 145
113
82
16
38 38
0
BE BG CZ DK DE EE GR ES FR IT LV LT HU NL AT PL PT RO SI SK FI SE UK IS LI NO TR
Total 708 205 205 184 948 254 396 5401392754 82 159 289 6141052497 399 16 140 113 610 260 472 38 38 145 356
Participants home students 131 124 26 31 69 89 107 83 365 201 16 31 57 107 223 181 102 4 25 28 174 56 125 13 10 22 105
Participants incoming students 577 81 179 153 879 165 289 4571027553 66 128 232 507 829 316 297 12 115 85 436 204 347 25 28 123 251
12

Total number of teachers in IPs per coordinating country
13

Subject Area of IP’s
14

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

Introduction of DAAD
D eutscher
A kademischer
A ustausch
D ienst a self-governing organisation of the
German institutions of higher education with 232 member institutions and 123 student bodies

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)
Scholarships for foreigners
Supporting future foreign elites at German universities and research institutes
€ 83 m
Scholarships for Germans
Supporting future German
Leaders in their studies and
Research abroad
(including ERASMUS)
€ 111 m
Promoting
German Studies and the German language abroad
Promoting the German language and German Studies at foreign universities
€ 47 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

Intensive Programmes with German coordination
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
2009/10
31 approvals: 14 renewals / 17 new IP
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

Subject area of German IP‘s
ERASMUS Intensive Programmes with German coordination 2008/09
3%
3%
6%
3%
6%
6%
6%
17%
10%
17%
20%
3%
Natural Sciences
Mathematics, Informatics
Languages and Philologics
Humanities
Social Sciences
Geography, Geology
Engineering
Education, TeacherTraining
Business studies and Management
Art and Design
Arcitecture
Agricultural 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

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

Informationen zur IP-Antragstellung 2011/12
Contact details:
Beate Körner koerner@daad.de
http://eu.daad.de