Virtual mobility means that two or more universities and schools offer students a virtual trip abroad: There will be an opportunity to acquire a number of ECTS-points at one of the foreign partner universities or through a joint activity. The ECTS-points from this international experience will then be counted to the student's degree at his/her home university.

There is an obvious need for virtual mobility. The European ministers of Education (2005) hope that in 2011, 3 million European students will have taken one or more courses in another country. At that moment, only 1 million had done so. This will mean an awesome increase of about 300.000 mobile students each year - a tall order, so virtual mobility and Erasmus will both be contributing. To realize the virtual mobility part of the 300.000 students each year, the general objective of the MoreVM project is to facilitate virtual mobility, encourage participation and enhance efficiency of virtual mobility in higher education. Specific objectives of the project are preparing students for virtual mobility and raising awareness of the importance of virtual mobility, provide support for colleges/universities in organizing virtual mobility, strengthen the co-operation among them and thus encourage them to develop joint programs.

More information:
Ms Mateja Geder
project coordinator
morevm@doba.si