1. EUniting: what European
partners are looking for
European Higher Education Fair
Manila 2012
Fernando Zapico

2. 2020 Agenda
Increase the number of graduates
(target: 40% of people under 35)
Improve the quality of teaching and research training: core
transferable competentes for high skill occupations
Enhance sudents mobility and cross-border cooperation to
boost Higher Education Performance
Strenghen links between Education, Research and Business

3. The Bologna Process: 2010
Purpose
Making European Higher
Education more compatible;
more comparable; more
competitive and more
attractive for Europeans and
students from other continents
Objectives
Introduction of the three
cycle system
(Bachelor/Master/Doctorate)
Quality Assurance
Recognition of qualifications
and periods of study

4. The Bucharest Comunique: April 2012
Promoting mobility of students, academic
and administrative staff
Introduction of a credit system for the
assessment of study performance (ECTS)
Lifelong Learning

5. European Credit Transfer and
Accumulation System (ECTS)
Transfer of learning between
different institutions
Greater student mobility
More flexible routes to gain
degrees
Curriculum design
Quality assurance

6. ECTS Institutions MUST:
Publish their course catalogues on the web including
detailed descriptions of study programs, units of learning,
university regulations and student services
Include ´Learning Outcomes´ and ‘workload’ in Course
descriptions
Express Learning Outcomes in terms of credits: each credit
corresponds to 25-30 hours of work.
Workload for an academic year ranges from 1500 to 1800
hours, 50-60 credits

7. Commission Green Paper on
Learning Mobility
Boosting knowledge and skills of young
people by helping them to study abroad
Programs for Lifelong Learning, Youth,
Culture and Citizenship
Erasmus as star program
The importance of Erasmus Mundus

8. Erasmus Mundus
Globalization
Interculture
Dialogue
International
experience

9. Award Criteria
Academic Quality
Course Integration
Course Managment, Visibility and
Sustainability Measures
Students facilities
Quality Assurance and Evaluation

10. Erasmus Mundus Key Concepts
Excellence Academic
and Research Quality
Innovative and
unique
Added value
Embloyability
Graduates
demanded by
society
Placements and
research
opportunities by
associates
Sustainability
Co-funding
Additional
Revenue
Associates Role

11. Masters Courses: preferred areas
Engineering, Technology (44)
Social and Cultural Sciences; Economics (28)
Natural Science (26)
Mathematics; IT (15)
Law (2)
Humanities (6)

12. Selected Projects for Action 2
CLILNK/EMEA
project
Techno II Project
Networking and
Globalisation of
Teaching in Engineering
Studies
MOVER
Erasmus Mundus
Projects

13. Salamat po!