Track 7. Advances on Sustainable Development in Higher Education Authors: Nuno Escudeiro and Paula Escudeiro.

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2015-1-PT01-KA203-013100
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Sustainable Internationalization of
Higher Education
Bertil Marques – Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

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Outline
1. Motivations
2. Blended-AIM project
3. Blended mobility course unit
4. Path to date and plans for the near future

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Motivations
• Project/Internship activities foster students’ employability
• International exposure during studies impacts students development as
professionals, individuals and citizens
• Barriers to mobility
• Cost of international mobility
• Risk of missing local job opportunities
• Anxiety while anticipating long periods abroad
• Disabilities and chronic diseases permanently requiring specific treatment
• Blended education/mobility overcomes all of these.

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Blended-AIMproject
• Blended-AIM – Academic International Mobility
• Erasmus+strategic partnership
• 3 years, October 2015 to September 2018
• 10 partners
• several studyareas:ComputerEngineering, Arts,Business, Marketing
• several stakeholders:HEI, Associations,Companies.

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Partnership
P01 – IPP, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
P02 – USiegen, Universität Siegen, Germany
P03 – GCU, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
P04 – EAEC, European Association of Erasmus Coordinators, Cyprus
P05 – GISIG, Geographical Information System International Group, Italy
P06 – UPB, Universität Paderborn, Germany
P07 – Odisee, Odisee Technologiecampus - Ghent, Belgium
P08 – FHJ, Fachhochschule Joanneum, Austria
P09 – LUCA, LUCA School of Arts, Belgium
P10 – TEICrete, Technological Education Institute of Crete, Greece

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Objectives
Goal
• Sustainable promotion of students’ employability by means of blended mobility
Objectives
• Structural:
a) Settle the European foundation for blended mobility, awareness raising
b) Foster internationalization of education
c) Deploy, test and disseminate a blended mobility capstone project course unit
• Pedagogical:
d) Promote students’ employability through non-formal learning not requiring curricula
changes
e) Promote international experience of undergraduate students
f) Boost the provision of professional skills, support collaborative learning and critical
thinking.

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Strategicoptions
• Foster equity and inclusion by removing barriers to
the internationalization of education
• Boost multiplier effects and the easy adoption of
blended mobility by providing information, tools and
best practices
• Raise awareness to blended mobility as a low-cost
paradigm to promote internationalization and value-to-
market of higher education.

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Short term impacts(1 year)
• Increased opportunities for mobility
• Increased opportunities for professional development
• More strategic and integrated use of ICT and open educational resources by students, trainees and
staff
• Improved international exposureof students
• Improved understanding of the features driving employability of higher education students.

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Long term impacts(1 year)
• Short term impacts arereplicated in long term with a deeperreach
• More positive attitude towards the European project and EU values by students and staff from HEI
and companies.
• Greater understanding of interconnections between formal and non-formal education.
• Better understanding and recognition of transversal skills
• Reinforced cooperation between the education sector and the labour market
• Better flow and transfer of knowledge through extended mobility opportunities.

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Project-Target
• Finalyear undergraduate students
• Capstone project course unit

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Certification
• ECTS credits from local Project/Internship course unit
• Practitioner certificate (students)
• Mobility Coach certificate (teachers) https://www.linkedin.com
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Sustainableinternationalization
Compared to physical mobility, blended mobility allows to:
• Benefit from international networking/cooperation during studies
• Withless long distance travels
• Acquire competences to explolit online groupware tools to work

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Inception
Co-financing EU
LLP Multilateral Erasmus
EU countries
IT, software development
Growing
Own funding
EU countries + Russia
Multidisciplinary (IT, Digital Arts,
Management, Marketing)
Client company from 2013/14
Maturity
Co-financing EU
Erasmus+ Strategic partnership
Support companies developing
innovative ideas at low cost, low cost
proof of concept, Middle-East
interest
2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19
Blended-AIMpath
Network
Service for
incubators, startups
and R&D
Ad-hoc International
and multidisciplinary
teams of students
Export
Capacity
building
Export
concept
to EU
neighbors
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