3 TOWARDS AN ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME Luciano Saso Deputy Rector for international mobility, Sapienza University Member of the Steering Committee of the UNICA network

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (27 October [1] 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, or simply Erasmus, a Dutch Renaissance humanist who worked and studied in several European universities [1]DutchRenaissance humanist 1987: European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students

ERASMUS programme Erasmus ( ) Socrates/Erasmus I ( ) Socrates/Erasmus II ( ) LLP/Erasmus ( ) Erasmus Mundus ( ) ERASMUS+ ( )

ERASMUS (1987-) as goal and a tool of the BOLOGNA PROCESS (1999-)

From 3244 (1987/1988) to 3 million (2012/2013) Erasmus Students

The European Community in 1987 (12 Member States)

The European Union in 2013 (28 Member States, 5 Candidate Countries, 3 Potential Candidates)

Number of Erasmus Students by Nationality ( )

Higher Education Institutions participating in the Erasmus exchanges

Languages used in Erasmus exchanges ( )

TOWARDS AN ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME

Well known procedures after more than 25 years of Erasmus (inter-institutional agreements, application forms, learning agreements, transcript of records, etc.) Language

Issues in the ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME South- North and South-South Mobility

Issues in both Erasmus+ and new Arab Mobility programme Visas High quality teaching and administrative Staff Exchanges Recognition of the credits Conversion of the grades “Mobility without paper”

Thinking of a successful name for the ARAB MOBILITY PROGRAMME The name of the programme could be chosen after one of the many important figures of the Arab Culture. Some of them such as Averroès', Ibn Rushd, Ibn Battuta, etc, were already used for other programmes but could be reproposed for this larger scale initiative

Strategic choice Consortia like in Erasmus Mundus action 2 or Inter- Institutional agreements like in Erasmus+?

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