Updated: 11/20/2024
Academic mobility provides an opportunity for students and academics to study, teach, train or conduct scientific activities in another HEI in Ukraine or abroad without being expelled or dismissed from their main place of study or work.
The main goals of academic mobility are to improve the quality of higher education, increase the effectiveness of research, establish internal and external integration connections, and enrich the individual experience of students and academics with other knowledge development and dissemination models.
Academic mobility involves the participation of faculty specialists in the educational process of another HEI in Ukraine or abroad. The Strategy for the Harmonisation of Public Administration in the EU and the Eastern Partnership, signed by 28 European countries, including Ukraine, intends to create a single educational space in the EU and the Eastern Partnership. This strategy aims to introduce international student exchange programmes (ISEPs) and double degree programmes (DDPs) between major Ukrainian universities and leading EU universities.
The most effective programmes are Erasmus Mundus, the German academic exchange programme DAAD, the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, and the Open Society Institute (Washington DC). The most famous of the EU's programmes to promote student and academic exchanges between the EU and countries outside the EU is Erasmus Mundus, which was launched in 2004. Senior students and scientists can receive scholarships from the EU to continue their studies or conduct research in EU countries.