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AUDIS/EDULINK - Séminaire d’information
Leuven, june 4- 6 2008
FRANCOPHONE GROUP
ON MOBILITY
ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (H.E.) IN KNOWLEDGE
DEVELOPMENT AND CIRCULATION
Why favour
H.E. in Cooperation Policy ?
H.E institutions = key factors in Development
process:
 role in dévelopment from the training and
qualification they give
 capacity of research and mastery of knowledge
accmulation process, mastery of scientific know-how
 to promote particular cultural dynamics thanks
to scientific approach, to achieve executive and
social elite training, who are also fundamental
cultural agents in the life of a society
Why should we emphasize institutional
university cooperation ?
It allows to take into account:
 Multidisciplinarity that help sustain cultural dynamics
 public or similar institutions open to any able student
 institutions that have proved their management
capacities and have demonstrated a more or less clear
vision of their objectives and develpment schemes
Buiding on globalisation benefits
Internationalisation shows today in scholars’
mobility as well as in the standardization of the norms of
scientific production.
But the regulation logic of this system is not
international at all, as the criteria of acknowledgement and
selection procedures of scientific personnel in universities
and companies tend more and more to subscribe to one
scientific culture: that of American research institutions.
This predominance of American norms is not limited to
scientific production
Prof Denis Monière, Université de Montréal : "Penser la coopération universitaire dans le
contexte de la mondialisation« , 2004
Buiding on globalisation benefits
The internationalisation of training and scientific
production should help to assert the specificiy of
universities and to set up centres of excellence that
allow wide (multipolar) circulation of scholars
Building on globalisation benefits
 develop teacher exchange through specific support
programmes
 Ensure dissemnation of scientific works through ICT
 Facilitate joint conference to make
research known to partner universities
advanced
Building on globalisation benefits
This goal might be reached through setting up NorthSouth university plans to:
 create postdoctoral support programmes helping
young researchers from the South to join productive
research teams
 Increase joint integrated (BA, MA and Doctoral
programmes or courses between North and South
partners who would create thus a structuring mobility
that would in the long run positively impact the creation
of research fellows’ networks
MOBILITY
Mobilty: expectations
 The phrase « university mobility" implies doing part of
studies, teaching, or research in a country other than the
student ‘s or the university teacher’s country of residence
 This period is limited and the student or the
teacher/research fellow is expected to return home at the
end of his/her programme
Recommandation n° R (96) 7 du comité des ministres aux États membres sur la mobilité
universitaire régionale, adoptée par le Comité des Ministres du Conseil de l’Europe le 5
septembre 1996
MOBILITY
 University mobility may mean:
 programmes designed to this end
 exchange agreements between governments, HE
institutions or their associations may resullt from
individual initiatives of teachers or students
MOBILITY
What can we expect?
 All these actions are to create a context conducive to
studies, collaborative research and the dissemination of
research production
 For students, the most common case is that of
alternate stays allowing them to visit laboratories
abraod while working on their theses
MOBILITY
What can we expect ?
 Mobility efficiency depends on the availability of
funds for teachers, staff and students in conjonction with
specialized structures
 There is as well a need to have suitable structures
and good quality logistics
MOBILITY
Who is responsable for mobility ?
 The collaborative context created by the university
allows students, teachers and administitrative staff and
other partner institutions
MOBILITY
 As far as francophone universities are concerned the
following manage mobility:
 central structures
: international relation office,
research office under VC or President’s authority.
Mobility is often based on cooperation agreement with
other universities
 Faculty structures : services in charge of cooperation
and research under Deans’ autorities
MOBILITY
Mobility in what way ?
 Cooperation
partners
implies reciprocal exchange between
 Mobility should be in various directions: North – South ;
South – North; South – South
 In reality mobility is 50% S-N :
 students registering in Universities in the North
 teachers mostly for research and personnel
development intership, rarely for teaching exchange
missions
 administrative staff training and internship
MOBILITY
Mobility whose initiative ?
 Mobility benefits from collaboration among various
university institutions
 Mobility is generally initiated by Universities of the
South
 On the basis of the agreements signed with partners
in the North, visiting professors and training may be
requested
 Putting in place co-supervision programmes requires
supervisors’ and supervisees’ mobiliy (NS)
MOBILITY
Mobility: whose initiative ?
 It can be individual : from students or teachers’ own
initiative to get the means to go to a North university or
South university
International organization such as AUF, UNESCO,
etc; offer mobility opportunities for teachers, students
and researchers
MOBILITY
Who monitors and follow up mobility?
 On the academic plan, bodies in charge of
interuniversity cooperation follow up mobility under the
managemnt of relevant univerisity authorities
 Financial monitorig rests on financial services
MOBILITY
The link between mobilty and brain
circulation ?
 Mobility entails brain movement or circulation between
partner universities
 Unfortunately this circulation does not always mean
the return of those brains to their home base
 Students seldom return home at the end of their
progrmme of studies  brain drain
MOBILITY
Link between mobility, brain drain and
circulation
 Justifed choice of co-supervision model with thesis
defence in South University
 Non-returning graduates generally receive the bulk of
their trainiing in the North
 Unemployment, underemployment, lack of proper
equipments are advocated as reasons
MOBILITY
Link between mobility, brain drain or
circulation
 This attitude is damaging for South University on
account of investment on students training and the need
to renew and reinforce acdemic staff
Mobility offers countries with limited human resources
the opportunity to resort to other universities to improve
their training schemes → In this regard, mobility permits
brain circulation
MOBILITY
Role of International Relation Directors in
mobility
 to have cooperation agreements signed
 to inform
opportunities
about
training
and
scholarship
 to act as interface between the univerisity and the
fund providers investing on mobility
MOBILITY
Role of International Relation Directors
 to handle mobility applications and follow them up
help mobility candidates to comply with
administrative requirements
MOBILITY
Credit granting: which university, which
levels? (L1, L2, L3, Master ou doctorat)
 The LMD system which is to be implemented by 2010
normally means credit transfer
 Credit transfer occurs between two universities
MOBILITY
 It is advisable to encourage mobility at the beginning
of a cycle; for example: complete L3 before starting a
Master’s programme or complete the Master’s degree
before starting a Doctorate in a university abroad
MOBILITY
 For doctoral students, a co-supervision agreement is
established through the international office.
 At the end of the programme the structure in charge
of academic affairs and research verify the thesis
conformity and organizes viva examination
Thank you for your attention