Deans meeting 21 June 2023

1. EADTU Deans Meeting
ProgrammeCollaboration and Mobility
Heerlen, 21 June 2023

2. Europe's leading institutional
association for online, open
& distance higher education

3. Members

4. eadtu.eu

6. Collaborative educational formats
• Collaborative courses
• Blended intensive programmes
• Collaborative micro-credentials
• Collaborative bachelor programmes
• Networked programmes with mobility
windows with possibly double degrees
• Joint programmes with joint degrees
• Collaborative master programmes
• Doctoral collaboration
• Co-supervision of individual PhD-
candidates
• Structural research collaboration
integrating PhD-candidates

7. Digital collaboration and mobility formats
• Physical collaboration and mobility: most
common
• Digital collaboration and mobility: innovative
Synchronous hybrid: students remain in the
home institution and are involved in a host
programme via virtual mobility
Blended: deliberate combination of physical
and digital parts
Online distance: students and teaching staff
are separated, at a distance

8. VM Website
https://virtualmobility.eadtu.eu/

9. Examples
• Course collaboration: Instructional Design - Creating an Educational
Media Product (E-SLP)
• Blended intensive programme: Edelnet; the EVS for Sustainable
development; “Think Tanks”
• Collaborative micro-credential: Climate Change
• Collaborative bachelor: European Studies (UNA-Europa)
• Networked master with mobility windows: the EIT DigiTal Master
School (double degree, KICs); Double master’s degree in Public Policy
and Human Development (University Maastricht and United Nations
University)
• Joint master with joint degree: Joint Master in Comparative Social
Policy and Welfare (Tampere, Linz, Vilnius); 170 Erasmus Mundus Joint
Masters (EC catalogue)
• Joint doctorate with joint degree: at some universities, 10% of
doctorates are already joint doctorates involving structural
collaboration between reseach departments (type Erasmus Mundus
Joint Doctorates, Marie Curie)

11. Benefits
• Benefits for students
Intercultural skills and attitudes
Networking skills
Interactive and collaborative learning in authentic international environments
Open-mindedness
• University staff
Sharing courses
Educational and research networking
learning from international colleagues (sharing good practices, new methods...)
• Benefits for institutions
Offering students an international academic experience
Organizing complementary offerings and sharing teaching capacity
Enhancing the quality of courses and curricula
Internationalising continuing education and lifelong learning

12. Key questions to start
• Why to create collaborative education and mobility?
• Which study (sub) area?
• Which qualification level?
• Which main topics?
• Which partners are needed?
• Which funding (e.g. Erasmus+ support)?
• What format?

13. Funding opportunities
for
course/programme
collaboration and
mobility Erasmus+
for students I.
Blended mobility of students:
• Duration: 2-12 months
• Blended: between physical 5 and 30 days
combined with a compulsory virtual
component
• Volume: at least 3 ECTS
Blended mobility windows (network mobility):
• Same rules
Blended intensive programmes:
• Physical mobility: from 5 to 30 days
• Volume: at least 3 ECTS
• Minimum number of participants: 15 (exclusive
staff)

14. Funding
opportunities for
course/programme
collaboration and
mobility Erasmus+
for Staff II.
Teaching staff mobility:
• Duration: 2 days to 2 months, excluding travel time.
Minimum duration from invited staff enterprises: 1
day.
• Teaching activity: minimum 8 hrs of teaching per
week (or any shorter period of stay). No minimum
teaching hours for invited staff from enterprises.
• Min. 4 hrs if combined with a training period (see
next)
• Can be carried out as blended activity.
Staff training mobility:
• Duration: From 2 days to 2 months, excluding travel
time. In the case of invited staff from enterprises,
the minimum duration is 1 day.
• Can be carried out as blended mobility.

15. Funding
opportunities for
course/programme
collaboration and
mobility Erasmus+
for staff and
students III.
Collaborative micro-credential courses and
programmes (with staff and student mobility):
• Funding by Erasmus+ student mobility, staff
mobility and blended intensive programmes.
• Furthermore, in the framework of cooperation
partnerships and alliances for Innovation (part of
projects).
Online or blended joint bachelor/master/doctoral
programmes with staff and student mobility):
• Funding by Erasmus+ student mobility, staff
mobility and blended intensive programmes
• For doctoral collaboration also: funding by the
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions which can
contain network funding and industrial
collaboration.

16. Design and development of
digital courses and programmes
eBOOKs by EADTU on the design and development of digital
collaboration and mobility courses and programmes
- Digital collaboration and mobility in European higher education
- Joint master programmes
- Joint micro-credential programmes
- Joint micro-credential courses and micro-learning units
https://bloomhub.eu
EADTU has also made available a short Erasmus+ funding guide
for digital course/programme collaboration and mobility