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"Let's Go! Where to now?" Mobility Campaign Conference
Date: 2008-10-06 - 2008-10-07
Venue: 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France, Charles de Gaulle University – Lille 3
Summary:
Academic mobility of students and staff is one of the core issues and cornerstones in building up the European Higher Education Area. But despite intensive intergovernmental cooperation and promises within in particular the Bologna Process, many students and staff continue to experience frustrating and costly obstacles to mobility causing them to lose educational and research opportunities.
As a follow-up of the seminar on mobility held in London in 2007, EI and ESU have continued to receive reports about economic barriers, non-recognition of academic merits gained abroad, and discrimination based on gender, age or cultural background hindering mobility. In order to improve the situation and increase work on reducing obstacles to mobility EI and ESU are running the "Let's Go!"- campaign, which started in November 2007 and which will end by a conference in Lille, France in October 2008. More on www.letsgocampaign.net
The first results of the “Let’s Go!” campaign will be presented and discussed during the conference and fed into a report to the Bologna Follow-up Group and ministerial conference in Leuven 2009. Conference participants will discuss themes such as financing mobility, mobility and quality, diversifying mobility, mobility of social security and pensions and commercialisation in connection with mobility.
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Video Interviews
What do staff and students, as well as other stakeholders in the Bologna Process think of the issue of mobility? To find out more, please browse through the video interviews below.
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For all documents and papers from the conference, please click on the links below.
Contact details:
Name and position: Monique Fouilhoux, Senior Coordinator
Email: monique.fouilhoux@ei-ie.org
Telephone: +32 2 224 06 43
Related links/file downloads:
www.letsgocampaign.net
Programme (pdf)
Conference Reader (pdf)
Mobility Barometer by Dr Conor Cradden (pdf)
Final General Report (pdf)
Presentation - Eric Froment (ppt)
Presentation - Georgia (ppt)
Presentation - Liam Burns (ppt)
Final Report Package
To know more about EI's policy and work in this area, please visit the following section: Higher Education and Research