EUA project focuses on Europe-Africa Cooperation
EUA is pleased to announce that it has just been awarded a new project from the European Commission Erasmus Mundus Action 4 (actions for ‘Enhancing Attractiveness’ of European higher education). This project is entitled ‘Access to Success: Fostering Trust and Exchange between Europe and Africa’ and will strive to deepen European cooperation with African university partners.
The primary objective of this two-year project is to address identified obstacles to EU-African higher education cooperation by providing structured opportunities for mutual exchange and discussion between the higher education communities in the two continents. The focus will be around issues of access to higher education – a major policy challenge in both continents where dialogue offers enormous opportunities for mutual learning, cooperation and enlightened action.
The project will entail surveys on different dimensions of the access dilemma in Europe and Africa, looking both at state and institutional policies and on student perspectives and motivations. The studies will feed into three mutual learning seminars on different subthemes of the EU-Africa access debate and a high level conference on EU-Africa cooperation addressed to policy makers.
EUA is the lead partner and will be joined by: the European Access Network; the Flemish Interuniversity Council – Department for University Cooperation for Development (VLIR-UOS, the branch of the VLIR that deals with North-South cooperation); the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions; the European Students’ Union (ESU); and the Association of African Universities (AAU).
Published on: Thursday, 9 October 2008 11:05