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Dear Friends,
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February has been a typically busy month for European Student Union
representatives, with our volunteers present at an ever increasing
number of external events and working hard on a host of projects. On
top of this ordinary flurry of activity, ESU is excited to announce the
launch of our European Commission funded Equity project which will span
the next two years. More...
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| Will the Social Dimension be a Reality by 2010?
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The social dimension has been a part of the Bologna process since the
ministerial summit in Prague in 2001, when a student representative
proposed the idea. This has ever since been one of the students main
priorities, and has taken up a lot of ESUs work and efforts. We have
seen the social dimension being strengthened in Bologna strategies in
the summits following Prague. More...
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Upcoming Events
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March 13-17: 15th ESC, Ljubljana
April 21 & 22: EQF Conference
May 5-8: Seminar on Equity in HE
May 9-11: ESU Board Meeting
June 08: Lisbon Training, Brussels
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Erasmus Mundus: The Danish Case
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Erasmus Mundus has been established in 2003 to enhance international
cooperation and mobility not only within the EU, but also beyond. As
such it is building on the experiences made with the EU mobility
schemes ERASMUS and TEMPUS. Elements of the Erasmus Mundus program
include the support of integrated master courses, scholarships for
third-country nationals (i.e. students with citizenship outside the EU
and candidate countries, EEA and EFTA), scholarships for EU students
and scholars to spend a periods at a cooperating third country higher
education institutions as well as activities to increase the
attractiveness of European higher education systems. More...
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Gender Aspects of the Bologna Process
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As most of us know, the Bologna Process (BP) has brought to the public
several aspects that have become part of our day to day lobby strategy:
the Social dimension of Higher Education (financial support of
students, affirmative action, advice and support, social service,
counseling), mobility and three cycle structure and access. Each of
these aspects has gender implications that impact on the general
success of the implementation of the BP in Europe. More...
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ESU Launches new Equity Project
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On 1st February, ESU launched a new project, "Equity
through E-learning" after a kick-off meeting in Brussels. Through this
project, ESU intends to address one of the core problems faced by the
student body today: that in all European countries a great number of
groups in society that have the capabilities to start and complete a
degree in higher education are excluded from doing so. More...
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| ESU joins HEXTLEARN consortium |
The use of ICT in Higher Education institution is spreading steadily in
spite of the many doubts surrounding the quality of first generation
eLearning approaches and applications, but the quality assurance of
higher education only marginally addresses eLearning, while the
strategic integration of ICT in teaching and learning is still more
highlighted in the policy documents than on the daily practice of
European Universities. More...
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European Students' Union
20 Rue De LA Sablonnière
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
www.esu-online.org
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