Are you engaged in student mobility arrangements? Are you preparing your institution for a digital era of education? This conference might just be a great step forward! Save the date and join us on 28/05/2021, 09:30 am – 12:30 pm CET to discuss the path of digitalisation that the new perspective of Erasmus programme will follow Find out how universities prepare to implement the EU’s flagship initiative Erasmus Without Paper Enjoy panel discussion about how IT solutions develop and support internationalisation process Get to know AIMED platform to ease mobility arrangements for students: www.aimed.university We are proud to invite you to an online conference that will discuss the most in demand topic these days – Internationalisation beyond IRO – Cooperation with IT for digital Erasmus. The conference will also include a summary of the AIMED project led by the University of Lodz that created an online platform helping the students(…)

The final version of the platform design is ready. Now the main burden of work will rest on the shoulders of IT developers from the IT Center of the University of Lodz. Intensive work is underway to develop the overall platform architecture and design the system database.

Vytautas Magus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, hosted the second meeting of AIMED partnership. Our goal was to discuss the functionalities of the platform, reflect on the design and establish a detailed plan of work for the upcoming months. The partners also participated in a workshop that enabled them to jointly work on the design of the platform and specify the details regarding its characteristics.

Few months of hard work resulted in a report elaborated by the European University Foundation that presents the functional analysis of AIMED platform. The design of the platform and its expected functionalities result from the research findings conducted among the students and coordinators of mobility in the institutions of higher education. Thus, the partners completed the analysis phase of the project.

In December, January and February the partners of the project carried out research activities in a form of focus groups. The participants of the focus groups were the students who had already spend part of their studies abroad, as well as those that were planning to do so (167 people in total). Their opinions and observations regarding the planned content of the platform and the functionalities that the tool should offer, will provide much needed directions for the development of the platform. All partners prepared internal overview of the research activities that were conducted in their institutions. They constituted the basis for the “Consolidated report on the Focus group activities” elaborated by the University of Cadiz. The report contains a comprehensive set of valuable guidelines for project partners regarding user requirements and will be the basis for further work on the platform.

The first project activity for the elaboration of intellectual outputs was the creation of a questionnaire that was later distributed among the students. They were asked why they had (or not) decided to spend part of their studies abroad, if they had received adequate information about the subjects available in the host university, as well as if the learning outcomes had been recognised towards their degree upon the return to the home institution. The questionnaire was replied by 686 students, over 61% of them had already had a mobility experience. For the 64% of those that were not planning to undertake a mobility, the reasons were of academic aspects (lack of adequate course offer, problems with recognition of learning outcomes, disbelief in the academic value of study abroad period, etc.). At the same time 96% student that took part in the research thought that creation of the platform that would(…)

On November 5th and 6th 2018 the University of Lodz hosted the first meeting of AIMED project partners. During two days of intensive work we were discussing the vision for our project, distribution of task and responsibilities, as well as created a detailed work plan for the incoming months in accordance with the project timetable. We decided the set up an additional research activity in a form of a mobility student questionnaire relating to the study exchange topic. This will allow us to acquire detailed data regarding the issues when it comes to organisation of mobility and choosing the host university.

The goal of the AIMED project is to strengthen the academic dimension of the student exchanges within the Erasmus+ programme and other that offer the possibility of spending part of studies in a hosting university abroad. Over the next two years our partnership will create a platform that will help the students to choose the direction of their mobility, enable to compare the subjects and facilitate the process of composing their learning agreement. The design of the platform will be based on the detailed analysis of the student requirements when it comes to choosing the direction of their mobility. The partners will carry out focus group research with the students who have already gone to mobility as well as with those that are planning to do so.  Thanks to this, the platform will be a tool that responds to the real needs of the main target group of the project.(…)