Developing International Experience for Students through Virtual Mobility Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing International Experience for Students through Virtual Mobility

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Nowadays socio-economic, political, cultural processes have become more complex, globalized and virtualized. The industry 4.0 determines the current development worldwide. Global virtual collaboration has advanced to a new challenge for the society.

For years, the European Commission has been investing a lot for student mobility, mainly through the Erasmus+ Programme. In order to reach as many people as possible, the European Ministers of Education emphasized now on the need to involve a larger number of students and to develop virtual mobility.

MOVIDIS project aims to give the opportunity to bachelor student in Economics, to receive an international experience from home institution through the concept of Virtual Mobility (VM) – internationalization at home. It can contribute to strengthening international, digital, and virtual collaborative skills of transnational students, to preparing students to the attainment of global career-readiness competencies, and finally, to implementing new vision of internationalization of participating HEIs.

In order to realize these objectives, a set of activities will be carried out, finally leading to the creation of institutional frameworks for implementing student virtual mobility, the design of technical and pedagogical infrastructure, and the organization, testing and evaluation of pilot MOVIDIS sessions.

Innovative learning scenarios for fully virtual courses and blended ones will be designed, implemented and evaluated at participating HEIs, which will focus on promoting transversal skills of learners such as intercultural competency, digital competency, language skills, collaborative learning skills. Not only the course content will be subject of learning but teaching approaches themselves will increase students’ learning experiences, lead to better learning outcomes, and boosting professional development. This pedagogical approach is new for participating partner countries, which other HEIs can benefit from.

The MOVIDIS project involves a consortium of four countries (France, Italy, Spain and Germany). All partners have been chosen because of their implication in e-learning development in Higher education, the high quality of their curricula in Economics, their international strategy in line with the concept of internationalization at home, their enthusiasm to give any student the opportunity to receive an international study experience.Experts from different backgrounds and contexts will be able to contribute with distinguished contents, producing high quality outputs.

The project will be in line with the internationalisation strategy of all the partners. It will develop teachers skills, students skills, and will be used as a basis to enhance this type of mobilities and cooperation to other fields of study and with others HEIs.

A detailed planning of the activities, accurate management and quality assurance procedures and an high commitment of all the partners are the basis for the successful implementation of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 332744 Eur

Project Coordinator

Université Côte d’Azur & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
• FACHHOCHSCHULE DES MITTELSTANDES (FHM) GMBH – UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE –
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
• UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID