EM Programme

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EM Programme Keeping attractiveness and
excellence and developing a common identity
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1- From attractiveness to programmes
achievements results and outputs2 - Erasmus
Mundus Integrating aspects Experience and
findings3 Learning from the EM experience
Sharping the EM focus4 Upcoming
challenges EM Knock-on effects
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• 1- From attractiveness to programmes
  achievements
• results and outputs

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Erasmus Mundus EM Windows additionality
79.711.000
47.428.000
30.727.600
18.898.600
6.099.000
5.427.000
6.633.000
2.954.600
2.234.900
34.973.200
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EM Programme outputs 2004-2006key facts and
figures EMMCs

• 80 Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses (until 12/2006)
• 369 higher educations institutions networking
  within the EM programme
• 2007 selection
• 156 EMMCs applications submitted - 469 HEIs
  involved
• 23 new EMMCs selected - 109 HEIs involved

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EM Programme outputs 2004-2006key facts and
figures disciplines

• Disciplines represented in EMMCs
• Engineering (including Engineering, Environment,
  IT Telecom.) gt 44 Courses
• Humanities (social, cultural and political
  sciences) gt 20 Courses
• Law Business and Economy gt 8 Courses
• Science, Health and Medicine gt 8 Courses

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EM Programme outputs 2004-2006key facts and
figures mobility

• Third country students
• 2004-2005 140 grants for students
• 2005-2006 808 grants for students
• 2006-2007 1377 grants for students
• 2007-2008 1800 grants for students (2825
  including Action 3)
• Most popular countries China, Brazil, Russia,
  India, Thailand, Pakistan
• Third country scholars
• 2004-2005 28 grants for scholars
• 2005-2006 133 grants for scholars
• 2006-2007 231 grants for scholars

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EM Programme outputs 2004-2006key facts and
figures third country cooperation Action 3

• 19 on-going Partnerships with 3rd country
  institutions
• 27 third countries involved with the strongest
  participation from the following countries
  China, Brasil, USA, Australia and South Africa.
• 985 European Erasmus Mundus students and 229
  European Erasmus Mundus scholars have received a
  scholarship to study/work at third-country higher
  education institutions
• Thematic areas
• 8 partnerships in Life Sciences,
• 6 in Humanities,
• 4 in Economic and Business
• 1 in Sciences

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• 2 - Erasmus Mundus
• Integrating aspects
• Experience and findings

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Ensuring high quality standards course
excellenceDegree Awarding Recognition

• Minimum requirement gt Double degree
• Highly recommended gt Joint degree
• Stock taking Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses
  selected (2004-2007)
• - 26 Universities award a joint degree
• - 21 Universities award a multiple degree
• - 40 Universities award a double degree
• - 7 Universities having specified more than one
  type of degree
• At least 8 EM Masters Courses that were initially
  awarding a double or multiple degree have
  achieved a joint degree

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Common management concerns Tuition fees
funding EMMCs

• The application of one single tuition fees to all
  third-country students regardless whether they
  receive an EM scholarship or not and for European
  students is an essential element of the
  integrated study programme of an EM Masters
  Course
• The average tuition fees of the EMMCs is 5000
  6000 per academic year

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Common management concerns Visa facilitating
mobility for EMMCs

• Obstacles to EM mobility - Delays in delivery of
  visa and residence permits
• Good practice to improve mobility
• - Identify the main actors involved in the
  process and their role in facilitating visa
  permits
• - Ensure a flow of information on European and
  national legislations

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• 3 Learning from the EM experience
• Sharping the EM focus

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Keeping excellence and high quality standards of
EMMCs

• Thematic priorities
• EMMCs selection is "open to Masters Courses
  operating in all
• fields of study", however specific disciplines
  have been earmarked
• as priority
• Architecture, urban and regional planning
• Art and design
• Business studies, management sciences
• Languages and philological sciences
• Law
• Mathematics and info-society
• Medical sciences
• Requirement as long as they can meet a the
  very high quality level requested from selected
  EMMCs

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Fine tuning in EMMCscommon management issues

• Policy of tuition fees
• Policy towards European Students
• Mobility tuning student scholar selection
• New rule for pre-financing
• New consultation role for EM National Structures

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• 4 Upcoming challenges
• EM Knock-on effect

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Challenges

• Further strengthening third country cooperation
• the development of the Erasmus Mundus Windows
  Asian, ACP and Western Balkans
• the development of new external cooperation
  scheme with the EC External Relations services
  EuropeAid cooperation office EMECW
• Challenges in the management of future mandates
• the management of EM Action 4 attractiveness of
  the European higher education system
• the management of USA/Canada scholarship scheme
  (7M)

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• EM Windows
• Further promoting the attractiveness of the
  European Higher Education Area in the world

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EM Windows operational Windows 2007

• Asia China and India
• Budget 18.7M
• India 17.2M (5-6 students)
• China 1.5M (0-1 students)
• NEW ACP (79 countries)
• Budget 4.7 M (1-2 students 1 year)
• NEW Western Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina,
  Serbia, Montenegro, Albania)
• Budget 5M (1-2 students 2 years)

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• targeting neighbourhood
• countries EMECW
• Further promoting the attractiveness of the
  European Higher Education Area in the world

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Further promoting attractiveness of the EHEA
third country co-operation

• EMECW targeting EU neighbourhood countries
• The Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window is
  designed to foster co-operation in the field of
  higher education between the European Union and
  Third-countries through a mobility scheme
  addressing student and academic exchanges
• Global budget will be 36M
• Grants awarded a minimum 1 M and a maximum of 6
  M million (in accordance with the volume of
  mobility proposed within each lot)
• 9 geographical lots.

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Further promoting attractiveness of the EHEA
third country co-operation

• EMECW targeting EU neighbourhood countries
• Partnership 5 EU Higher Education Institutions
  and minimum 1 Higher Education Institution for
  each country concerning each group
• Maximum partnership 20 Higher Education
  Institutions
• Type of mobility individuals and academic staff
• Undergraduate
• Master
• Doctorate
• Post doctorate
• Academic staff
• Deadline for application 31/01/2007

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Additional Challenges to continue promoting the
attractiveness of the EHEA third country
cooperation

• the management of EM Action 4 attractiveness of
  the European higher education system
• the management of USA/Canada scholarship scheme
  (7M)

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