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TOWARDS AN ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME

Luciano Saso Deputy Rector for international mobility, Sapienza UniversityMember of the Steering Committee of the UNICA network

(luciano.saso@uniroma1.it)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (27 October[1] 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, a Dutch Renaissance humanist who worked and studied in several European universities

1987: European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students

ERASMUS programme

• Erasmus (1987-1994)• Socrates/Erasmus I (1995-2001)• Socrates/Erasmus II (2002-2006)• LLP/Erasmus (2007-2013)• Erasmus Mundus (2004-2013)

ERASMUS+ (2014-2020)

ERASMUS (1987-) as goal and a tool of the BOLOGNA PROCESS (1999-)

From 3244 (1987/1988) to 3 million (2012/2013) Erasmus Students

The European Community in 1987 (12 Member States)

http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/

The European Union in 2013 (28 Member States, 5 Candidate Countries, 3 Potential Candidates)

http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/index_en.htm

Number of Erasmus Students by Nationality (2011-2012)

http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc/stat/1112/report_en.pdf

Higher Education Institutions participating in the Erasmus exchanges

http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc/stat/1112/report_en.pdf

Languages used in Erasmus exchanges (2011-2012)

http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc/stat/1112/report_en.pdf

TOWARDS AN ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME

TOWARDS AN ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME

• Well known procedures after more than 25 years of Erasmus (inter-institutional agreements, application forms, learning agreements, transcript of records, etc.)

• Language

Issues in the ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME

• South- North and South-South Mobility

Issues in both Erasmus+ and new Arab Mobility programme

• Visas• High quality teaching and administrative Staff

Exchanges• Recognition of the credits• Conversion of the grades• “Mobility without paper”

Thinking of a successful name for the ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME

• The name of the programme could be chosen after one of the many important figures of the Arab Culture.

• Some of them such as Averroès', Ibn Rushd, Ibn Battuta, etc, were already used for other programmes but could be reproposed for this larger scale initiative

• http://www.averroes.fr/en/• http://www.battuta.eu/• http://www.ibn-rushd.org/

Strategic choice

• Consortia like in Erasmus Mundus action 2 or Inter-Institutional agreements like in Erasmus+?

Thank you for your attention

luciano.saso@uniroma1.it