Erasmus is more than just an exchange programme for students
Student exchanges, staff mobility, international university projects: for over 35 years now, these have been part of the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme. Starting as a European exchange programme for students, Erasmus today offers numerous cross-border opportunities. These include cooperation and partnership programmes which assist exchanges between universities in Europe and all over the world. At the University of Münster there are many research projects funded by one of the Erasmus+ programmes. Here are three of them:
The so-called Cooperation Partnerships promote the internationalisation of European universities by means of strategic partnerships:
The AI-Bility Project for example looks at intelligent toys, adaptive learning applications and digital assistants for schoolchildren between the ages of 11 and 13 in Lichtenstein, Germany and France. These products are toys based on artificial intelligence which can communicate using natural language. Involved in the project are researchers not only from Münster University but also from the University of Lichtenstein and the French Graduate School “Grenoble Ecole Management”.
The international cLovid Project is designed to provide universities with the means to make the study of medicine digitally more active and more collaborative. The aim is to enable international collaboration to be undertaken on microscopic preparations – as a high-resolution microscopic image – and above all in visual subjects such as microscopic pathology. The project is based on the interaction between individual and group work: in practice, this means that cLovid creates an examination programme which enables individual work to be done on the preparation with a variety of examination questions. After this, there follows the interactive part – exchanges on the results via the “learning dashboard”. Those involved in this EU-wide project, apart from the University of Münster, are universities and institutes such as the Image Science Institute at the University of Utrecht and the Centre for Research on Learning and Instruction within the Faculty of Education at the Finnish University of Turku.
The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master programme provides support for international excellence courses of study for highly qualified students which include multiple or joint degrees.
The Geospatial Technologies master’s course, for example, prepares students to use new geodata technologies in supporting decision-making in the environmental and social fields. The course is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Münster, the University of Jaume I in Spain and the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. The master’s course lasts for three semesters and is held in English. It covers topics such as computer science, data analysis, spatial statistics and obtaining information about the Earth’s surface.
If you have any questions on the Erasmus+ programmes, Sandra Wiegand at Münster University’s International Office will be glad to help you.
She can be contacted as follows:
Telephone: +49 251 83-22602
Email: sandra.wiegand@uni-muenster.de