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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" aimed 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 was not only to map institutional and national good practices and identify case studies, but also to 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 aimed at enhancing institutions' capability to cooperate and exchange, in particular with regards to student and staff mobility schemes and capacity building partnerships.
The project recommendations, which should be of interest to institutions as well as government agencies and donor organisations, were published in a White Paper of Project Recommendations: Africa-Europe Higher Education Cooperation for Development: Meeting regional and global challenges
Important research articles on access and retention issues in Africa and Europe, as well as all event outcomes have been published in the project compendium.
As mentioned in its title, the project aimed in particular at building trust as a indispensible condition for collaboration and partnership. |
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The project activities included:
- 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 student perspectives regarding access in Europe (in conjunction with the European Students Union) and Africa (in conjunction with the African student unions) and well as braing drain and mobility
- 3 Workshops bringing together African and European universities and students (end 2009 through 2010) on access and retention, capacity building partnerships and mobility/brain drain.
- A final policy-targeted 'White Paper' on 'Europe-Africa Higher education Cooperation for Development'
A final policy-level conference, targeting policy makers and donors, concluded the project in Brussels (September 2010)
The Access to Success project is followed up by two projects focussing on Europe-Africa university cooperation: CODOC: Cooperation on Docotoral Education between Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe and Europe-Africa Quality Connect. For more information, see intiatives section.
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