Academic staff mobility in the European community: The ERASMUS experience

Comparative Education Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 46-60

  Enders, Jürgen ^a  

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EID: 0032340485     PISSN: 00104086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/447478     Document Type: Article

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1. Council of Europe, Mobility of University Staff (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1973).
2. Council of Europe, Third Conference on Academic Mobility (Rome: Instituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria, 1985).
3. The ERASMUS program was launched in the mid-1980s by the European Community for interuniversity cooperation, mainly through student and faculty mobility. The COMETT program was launched in the mid-1980s by the European Community to facilitate cooperation between universities and industries in training for technology.
4. On academic mobility and international cooperation, see P. Blumenthal, C. Goodwill, A. Smith, and U. Teichler, eds., Academic Mobility in a Changing World (London and Bristol, Pa.: Kingsley, 1996); A. Smith, U. Teichler, and M.v.d. Wende, eds., The International Dimension of Higher Education: Setting the Research Agenda (Vienna: Verein Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 1994). On the use of surveys and evaluation exercises, see S.v.d Bunt-Kokhuis, "Determinants of International Faculty Mobility," Highier Education in Europe 2 (1994): 94-111; R. Kreitz and U. Teichler, "ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility: The 1990/91 Teathers' View," pre-publication report (Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassel, 1995); and U. Teichler, P. Becker, R. Holtkamp, and F. Maiworm, Experiences and Careers of Science and Engineering Fellows Supported by the European Community (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, European Report 12932 English, 1990).
5. On academic mobility and international cooperation, see P. Blumenthal, C. Goodwill, A. Smith, and U. Teichler, eds., Academic Mobility in a Changing World (London and Bristol, Pa.: Kingsley, 1996); A. Smith, U. Teichler, and M.v.d. Wende, eds., The International Dimension of Higher Education: Setting the Research Agenda (Vienna: Verein Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 1994). On the use of surveys and evaluation exercises, see S.v.d Bunt-Kokhuis, "Determinants of International Faculty Mobility," Highier Education in Europe 2 (1994): 94-111; R. Kreitz and U. Teichler, "ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility: The 1990/91 Teathers' View," pre-publication report (Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassel, 1995); and U. Teichler, P. Becker, R. Holtkamp, and F. Maiworm, Experiences and Careers of Science and Engineering Fellows Supported by the European Community (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, European Report 12932 English, 1990).
6. On academic mobility and international cooperation, see P. Blumenthal, C. Goodwill, A. Smith, and U. Teichler, eds., Academic Mobility in a Changing World (London and Bristol, Pa.: Kingsley, 1996); A. Smith, U. Teichler, and M.v.d. Wende, eds., The International Dimension of Higher Education: Setting the Research Agenda (Vienna: Verein Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 1994). On the use of surveys and evaluation exercises, see S.v.d Bunt-Kokhuis, "Determinants of International Faculty Mobility," Highier Education in Europe 2 (1994): 94-111; R. Kreitz and U. Teichler, "ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility: The 1990/91 Teathers' View," pre-publication report (Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassel, 1995); and U. Teichler, P. Becker, R. Holtkamp, and F. Maiworm, Experiences and Careers of Science and Engineering Fellows Supported by the European Community (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, European Report 12932 English, 1990).
7. On academic mobility and international cooperation, see P. Blumenthal, C. Goodwill, A. Smith, and U. Teichler, eds., Academic Mobility in a Changing World (London and Bristol, Pa.: Kingsley, 1996); A. Smith, U. Teichler, and M.v.d. Wende, eds., The International Dimension of Higher Education: Setting the Research Agenda (Vienna: Verein Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 1994). On the use of surveys and evaluation exercises, see S.v.d Bunt-Kokhuis, "Determinants of International Faculty Mobility," Highier Education in Europe 2 (1994): 94-111; R. Kreitz and U. Teichler, "ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility: The 1990/91 Teathers' View," pre-publication report (Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassel, 1995); and U. Teichler, P. Becker, R. Holtkamp, and F. Maiworm, Experiences and Careers of Science and Engineering Fellows Supported by the European Community (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, European Report 12932 English, 1990).
8. On academic mobility and international cooperation, see P. Blumenthal, C. Goodwill, A. Smith, and U. Teichler, eds., Academic Mobility in a Changing World (London and Bristol, Pa.: Kingsley, 1996); A. Smith, U. Teichler, and M.v.d. Wende, eds., The International Dimension of Higher Education: Setting the Research Agenda (Vienna: Verein Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 1994). On the use of surveys and evaluation exercises, see S.v.d Bunt-Kokhuis, "Determinants of International Faculty Mobility," Highier Education in Europe 2 (1994): 94-111; R. Kreitz and U. Teichler, "ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility: The 1990/91 Teathers' View," pre-publication report (Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, Kassel, 1995); and U. Teichler, P. Becker, R. Holtkamp, and F. Maiworm, Experiences and Careers of Science and Engineering Fellows Supported by the European Community (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, European Report 12932 English, 1990).
9. Anthony Welch, "The Peripatetic Professor: The Internationalisation of the Academic Profession," Higher Education, vol. 34, no. 1 (1997).
10. The European Credit Transfer System was started in 1989 as a special activity of the European Community within the ERASMUS program. It is designed to apply mechanisms of a credit point system for the reciprocal recognition of academic activities and studies undertaken abroad.
11. See U. Teichler and F. Maiworm, The ERASMUS Experience: Major Findings of the ERASAMUS Evaluation Research Project (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997); and Kreitz and Teichler.
12. The percentages add up to more than 100 percent because some of the respondents stated joint initiatives, notably of the home and the host institution.
13. The SOCRATES program was launched by the European Community in 1995 and integrates the former ERASMUS program for higher education, the former COMENIUS program for primary and secondary education, and a number of further activities in these sectors. In its first stage, SOCRATES is limited until the end of 1999. The LEONARDO program was launched by the European (Community in 1995 and integrates various former European Community programs in the field of vocational education and training, like COMETT. The LEONARDO program also is limited in its first stage until 1999.