Summit on international mobility management digitalization
More than two-hundred people in charge of the international mobility management in several European universities are taking part, from 30 January to 1 February, in the Student Mobility Summit, under the title “EWP Back to the Future”, to take place at the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona. This innovative meeting, which will address the digital transformation process of the international mobility management, will be opened by Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, head of the Higher Education Unit of the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture at the European Commission; Markéta Křížová, president of the European University Foundation (EUF), and Joan Guàrdia, rector of the UB.
More than two-hundred people in charge of the international mobility management in several European universities are taking part, from 30 January to 1 February, in the Student Mobility Summit, under the title “EWP Back to the Future”, to take place at the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona. This innovative meeting, which will address the digital transformation process of the international mobility management, will be opened by Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, head of the Higher Education Unit of the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture at the European Commission; Markéta Křížová, president of the European University Foundation (EUF), and Joan Guàrdia, rector of the UB.
These sessions, for which there are no available seats left, will feature as speakers, trainers and chairpersons several key actors of the digital transformation process of mobility management. During the first day and a half, there will be presentations and they will take part in roundtables in which they will present updated information about the digitalization of mobility management. Moreover, certified experts will share good practices and recommendations aiming to promote the improvement of mobility through digitalization processes. Another day and a half will be dedicated to specific training sessions.
Attendants can participate in hackathons that will gather experts on mobility management and experts on computer science to reflect on and look for common positions on the management software of the Erasmus Without Paper (EWP), combined mobility, the European Student Identified and the European Student Card, for instance. There will be training sessions on the detailed description of the specific steps in digitalization, planning and strategy aspects and others on key initiatives regarding EWP.
These sessions show the UB’s commitment to its EWP initiative, a commitment reinforced by its selection in the Champions EWP programme, together with forty-eight European universities and a broad and successful experience in the digitalization of the Erasmus+ programme.
The summit is organized by the UB’s Vice-rector’s Office of Internationalization, framed within the University Internationalization ub initiative, created in 2020 by the UB and the EUF to improve the internationalization of the universities. EUF is a network of European universities that has worked for twenty years on the modernization of higher education in Europe — with a special emphasis on mobility — and has become a model for policies of the European Union in this field.