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European Higher Education for the World – Studies and Promotion

• idea of the Erasmus Mundus Program in a global context

• the individual students’ perspective

Katarzyna Hadaś, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań,Poland

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ERASMUS MUNDUSERASMUS MUNDUS

• European Union Program• provides for the establishment of ‘Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses’ • with scholarships for students and scholars

from all over the world,to obtain qualifications and experience in the

European Union

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The EU policy of education open and competing to the world

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ERASMUS MUNDUSERASMUS MUNDUS

Programme Actions

Action 1: Erasmus Mundus Masters CoursesAction 2: Scholarships - for third-country highly qualified

students and scholars

Action 3: Partnerships between EU and non-Eu HEIs

Action 4: Enhancing the attractiveness of Europe as an educational destination

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ACTION 1 - ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTERS COURSES

• existing joint (international) master programs to which Erasmus Mundus status has been given to open them to non- EU students and teachers

• high-quality masters courses delivered by networks of prestigious universities (consortium) selected on the basis of the quality of the proposed training and hosting of students

• offered by a consortium of at least 3 higher education institutions from 3 different European countries

• studies lasting 1 to 2 years (60 to 120 ECTS credits)• Language courses and daily use of at least 2 EU languages

• Award of a joint, a double or a multiple degree (diploma) officially recognised in EU countries

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ACTION 2: SCHOLARSHIPS – only for non–EU nationals

Student mobility: 1 year study:• 16,000 € (10 study months x 1,600 €)• 5,000 € for travel expenses, tuition fees etcTotal: 21,000 € per student for a one-year course

fees- up to 10,000 € per year!Scholar mobility: • 13,000 € per scholar (3 months x 4,000 € plus a fixed

amount of 1,000 € for travel expenses)Grants are paid to grantees by consortia

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Ongoing Mundus projects -selection 20041. tropEd – European Master of Science

Programme in International Health

2. Master der Europäischen Rechtspraxis

3. EMMS - Joint European Masters Programme in Materials Science

4. CoMundus – European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies

5. European Master in Law andEconomics

6. European Joint Master in Water and Coastal Management

7. MSc EF Master of Science in European Forestry

8. NOHA MUNDUS European Masters Degree in International Humanitarian Aid

9. EuMI - European Master in Informatics

10. IMRD - Erasmus Mundus International Master of Science in Rural

11. European Masters Program in Computational

12. European Masters Degree in Higher Education

13. EURO-AQUAE – Euro Hydro-Informatics & Water Management

14. International Master in Quaternary and Prehistory

15. MEEM - Mechnical Engineering Erasmus Mundus Masters Course

16. ALGANT - Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory

17. EMCL – European Masters Clinical Linguistics

18. MEES – Masters in Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Seismology

19. MERIT – Masters in Research in Information Technologies

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Ongoing Mundus projects -selection 20051.SpaceMaster – Joint European Master

in Space Science and Technology

2.EMM Nano. Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

3. MA SEN: Special Education Needs

4.European Master in Global Studies

5.GEM: Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management

6.Erasmus Mundus MA – European Journalism: The Global Challenge

7.Master of Industrial Mathematics

8.Master Mundus: Crossways in

European Humanities

9.MSc in Network and e-Business Centred Computing

10.European Masters Course in Aeronautics and Space Technology

11.AMASE: Joint European Masters Programme in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering

12.Master International “Vintage”, Vine, Wine and Terroir Management

13.MESPOM: Environmental Science, Policy and Management

14.MIME: Master européen en Ingénierie des Médias pour l’Education

15.SEFOTECH.nut: European MSc Degree in Food Science,

Technology and Nutrition

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ERASMUS MUNDUSERASMUS MUNDUSMain Outputs 2004-2008

100 Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses5,000 grants for incoming third-country

students1,100 grants for incoming third-country

scholars

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ERASMUS MUNDUS

2005-2006 ACADEMIC YEAR

THIRD-COUNTRY STUDENTSPER COUNTRY

THIRD-COUNTRY SCHOLARSPER COUNTRY

1. INDIA 137 1.CHINA 232. CHINA 85 2. BRAZIL 123. PAKISTAN 37 3. RUSSIA 94. BRAZIL 35 4. AUSTRALIA 95. THAILAND 32 5. INDIA 76. RUSSIA 31 6. SOUTH AFRICA 67. BANGLADESH 24 7. CANADA 48. UKRAINE 23 8. ARGENTINA 49. MALAYSIA 23 9. CHILE 310. USA 20 10. JAPAN 311. MEXICO 18 15. MEXICO 2............................ 351 ...................... 51TOTAL 808 TOTAL 133

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34 ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTERS COURSES –2005(about 50 – for the academic year 2006/07)

EXAMPLES OF CONSORTIA OFFERING STUDIES

EMM Nano. Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2 years)

B – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (co-ordinator)

S - Chalmers University of Technology NL - Technische Universiteit Delft NL - Universiteit Leiden D - Technische Universität Dresden

MESPOM: Environmental Science, Policy and Management (2 years)

S – Lund Universitet (co-ordinator)HU - Közép-Europai Egyetem Alapitvany UK - University of Manchester GR - Panepistimio Aigaiou

European Master in Global Studies (2 years)D – Universität Leipzig (co-ordinator)UK - London School of Economics and Political

Science AT - Universität Wien PL – University of Wroclaw

GEM: Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (1 year, 6 months)

NL – International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (co-ordinator)

UK - University of Southampton S - Lunds Universitet PL - University of Warsaw

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Information about Mundus and European higher education

List of Erasmus Mundus Master Courses with links to websites providing detailed

information: http://europa.eu.int/com

/education/programmes/mundus/projects/index_en.html

http://www.mundusamu.amu.edu.pl/Search.php

Ploteus

• Seleccione el nivel educativo:• Seleccione el idioma en que quiere

aprender:• Seleccione dónde quiere aprender:• Seleccione qué quiere aprender:

http://europa.eu.int/ploteus/portal/searchcustom.jsp

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Personal intercultural experience and the perception of the European Higher Education by students from the third countries (non-EU

countries) who study in Europe

interviews - 30 students

questionnaire survey - 162 students

respondents from: China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Iran, Uzbekhistan, Kirghizstan, Kazahstan, Russia, India Togo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, USA, Argentina, Chile and Colombia

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I. Barriers to global mobilityacademic barriers

- institutional

- recognition

- educational, scientific and linguistic

social barriers

- cross-cultural adaptation

- socialising with host country students,

- financial means

barriers of psychological nature preconceptions worries after arrival

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Racism, cultural alienation“All is weird here. The

society is not encouraging to foreigners. Hospitality of people is very low compared to expectations. A lot of people look at me bad. I won’t lie to you. It was very bad experience. You get beaten up. I was beaten up by skinheads in Lodz. I was hospitalised for two months. It was bad. I was broken hands, broken legs. It was about my skin colour.”

“My expectations like forging durablefriendships, common activities, learning from each other are not fulfilled. There is the a gap that can not be filled. Wecan do everything to get closer to Germans, but they don’t want it”.

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Stereotypes“Bad stereotypes of Muslims and Arabs are

shaped by the Polish media. Not openness. What makes us difficult to get on well with each other is stereotypes. You start talking to someone and when you say you’re a Muslim everybody is looking at me with fear and the talk stops to be loose”

“There are many students from different countries at the university and in Hannover who complain that some professors treat us like children, supposing that we might have a very little knowledge. Stereotype and feeling of superiority over the poor countries… it also shapes one’s behaviour and the behaviour changes. Unfortunately…”.

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Problems with communication

“First two, three months of going to the lectures was a tragedy! Other students took part in the classes, exercises… and I couldn’t say anything!! I couldn’t express myself! It’s horrible when you have something to say but don’t know how. The teacher asked me about something but I couldn’t answer!. I was crying. And people laugh at you when you make a mistake in Polish and don’t hear what you want to say. They think that you don’t have the knowledge.”

“European culture is extremely closed and people don’t careabout knowing things formdifferent perspective. They do noteven try to get in contact in any way”

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II. Promises, benefits, opportunities

– Benefits for one’s education.

– Developing cultural experiences.

– Enriching identity, increasing knowledge of one’s self.

– Building global understanding

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Enriching identity, increasing knowledge of one’s self.

“What I learned is that it is most important to go through the experience, even if you don’t know how to do it. I was, for example very timid going to the administrates. You must have a try even if something seems to be impossible”

“I must admit that coming here and the stay here changed me very much. I have become a better person here. I have become more composed, calm and tolerant. I have become more honest and hard-working”.

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Global awareness

“I take my scholarship more personally rather than in a global perspective. It gives me certain benefits… and this is most important for me. I don’t think that my stay and study herecontributes to somethinglarger.. to any dialoguebetween cultures…”

“I made the discovery that although cultures and customs often differ greatly, the people as individuals are not very different from one another”

“The psychically unnoticed ‘wall’ between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Non-Europeans’, respectively between European and Non-European looking people makes the dialogue so difficult. But I think that this ‘wall’ can be removed by the dialogue”.