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The Access to Success project |
The European Commission, Erasmus Mundus Action 4 Project "Access to Success: Fostering Trust and Exchange between Europe and Africa" aims to bring together universities from Europe and Africa and explore the access and retention in the context of inter-institutional mobility and cooperation.
The goal of the project is not only to map institutional and national good practices and identify case studies, but also establish a better understanding among the participating institutions and people on how institutions shape their missions in response to specific socio-economic contexts and environments. By doing so, it aims at enhancing institution's capability to cooperate and exchange, in particular with regards to student and staff mobility schemes and capacity building partnerships.
The project is expected to develop a catalogue of good practices and recommendations on access and mobility, which should be of interest to institutions as well as government agencies and donor organisations.
As mentioned in its title, the project aims in particular at building trust as a indispensible condition for collaboration and partnership. |
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The project activities include:
- A target questionnaire on access and retention policies and strategies at European higher education institutions
- A targeted questionnaire on access, retention and completion at African higher institutions, identifying societal demand for higher education and institutional challenges/obstacles as well as interesting practices in meeting these challenges
- Gathering information on student perspective regarding access in Europe (in conjunction with the European Students Union) and Africa ( in conjunction with the African student unions)
- 3 Workshops bringing together African and European universities and students (end 2009, and carry through 2010).
A final policy-level conference, targeting policy makers and donors, and a project report will conclude the project
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