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Building on former initiatives on virtual mobility
Currently only 1% of the European student population is participating in international academic mobility and the only way in which the ambitions of the Bologna process and the Lifelong Learning Programme can be realised is through a supplement scheme to the physical mobility models. This supplement is Virtual Erasmus.
Several projects on virtual mobility have shown its benefit as a supplement to physical mobility. In the European project EPICS these initiatives on virtual mobility have been gathered together to build mainstream, institutional scheme of virtual mobility, Virtual Erasmus. Read more about the project.
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Overview of EPICS activities
27 October 2010
Launch of the EPICS and Virtual Exchange concept
In the Annual Conference of EADTU of 2010, 27-29 September in Zermatt the EPICS portal was officially launched.
It was the start of the first universities to sign the institutional agreements for exchanging students. The 4 universities that were the first to sign are the Open Universiteit Nederland (NL), Universidade Aberta (PT), UNED (E) and Uninettuno (IT). The coming months we expect several more traditional and Open universities to join and start uploading there courses. The launch of EPICS in Zermatt was therefore also a call for all universities to start offering courses via the portal and providing their students access to other partner universities. Click here to watch video.
You can read all about the Virtual Exchange concept in the publication EPICS: New Opportunities for International Student Mobility
Please visit the EPICS portal at www.epics-ve.eu
The Uninettuno video production on EPICS: mms://streaming.uninettuno.it/streaming/mediagallery/promo/Promo_EPICS_ok.wmv
30 May 2010
Article in the EADTU newsletter of May.
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27 January 2010
The Virtual Erasmus leaflet is ready!
Click here to download the leaflet.
18 December 2009
Chapter on EPICS in book: Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development: Advancing E-Learning Policies.
The chapter in the book will explore how a particular virtual mobility scheme can be put into practice and what is required from an organisation to implement this model and incorporate it into its own curriculum. Read more.
15 December 2009
Presentation in the EADTU board meeting in Barcelona.
During the EADTU board meeting a presentation was given by George Ubachs on the progress and developments of EPICS. Click here for the presentation.
3 November 2009
Presentation on conference "Internationalisering werkt!"
The EADTU chaired a dedicated ‘Workshop on ICT’ in this Dutch conference on European Education Programmes. Read more.
1 July 2009
Article in PaceSetter
PaceSetter is the electronic newsletter of EuroPace. Read the article.
10 June 2009
Article on Re.ViCa project wiki.
Read the article on the Re.Vica wiki.
9 June 2009
Presentation at M-2009 and publication on conference web site.
A presentation at the conference and a publication on the conference web site.
3 June 2009
Presentation on Virtual Mobility at AVLM training Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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1 June 2009
Article in the EADTU newsletter of June.
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21-25 April 2009
Presentation at the SPACE conference and paper published.
Presentation on Home and Away, ET solutions for Mobile Students and Teachers (Ilse Op de Beek and Helena Bijens).
5 March 2009
Article on EuroPACE web site.
Read the article on the EuroPACE web site.
1 January 2009
Main article in the newsletter January and link to EADTU project web site.
Read the article in the EADTU newsletter.
1 January 2009
Project of the month on www.elearningeurope.info.
Read more at the web site of Elearningeurope.
January 2009
Presentation at LOGOS conference.
George Ubachs attended the LOGOS Open Conference and did a presentation on strenghtening the integration of ICT research effort. Watch the video.
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