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• Call for applications – Sixth Round projects
  
• Fifth Round outcomes
  
• Fourth Round outcomes

The EU/Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Training initiative funds consortiums of both Australian higher education and vocational education and training (VET) institutions to undertake student mobility projects between the European Union and Australia.

Projects offer Australian students at the successful institutions the opportunity to study for a semester at a partner institution in the EU. Funding is also available for academics and administrative staff to visit partner institutions in the EU.

Call for applications – Sixth Round projects

The call for applications is now open for the sixth round of European Union (EU)/Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Training projects. These projects operate under the rubric of the European Commission’s Industrialised Country Instrument Education Cooperation Programme (ICI ECP). These projects are jointly funded by DEEWR and the European Commission.

Applications closed on 15 September 2009. Successful projects will be announced in October 2009.

This sixth round of EU/Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Training projects seek applications from consortiums of both Australian higher education and vocational education and training (VET) institutions to undertake student mobility projects between the European Union and Australia.

These projects will offer Australian students at the successful institutions the opportunity to undertake study for a semester at a partner institution in the European Union.

Proposals from the VET sector are encouraged. Such proposals may include work placements and/or internships as part of a study period in the EU.

Funding is also available for academics and administrative staff to visit partner institutions in the EU.
EU/Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Training projects began in 2003 with the aim to promote understanding between the peoples of the EU and Australia and improving the quality of their human resource development.

The EU and Australia in 2008 launched a Partnership Framework, which identified joint student mobility projects as a major tool for cooperation.

Fifth round outcomes 2008

Global Environmental Journalism Initiative

This project will bring together a consortium of journalism schools, with industry support, will develop and implement curricula and pedagogies in global environmental journalism.

Australia

• University of Technology, Sydney (lead institution)
  
• Monash University, Victoria
  
• University of Tasmania
  
• Murdoch University, WA

EU

• Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark (lead institution)
  
• City University London, UK
  
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  
• Swedish School of Social Science
  
• Sami School of Journalism, Finland

International Vocational Knowledge and Skills Exchange (business, engineering, fashion)

This VET project aims to offer an integrated international study and work experience that will allow students to develop skills needed to participate in business, engineering and fashion in a global environment.  This project aims to develop joint curricula with input from an international employer base; contribute to the development of a sustainable international exchange and credit transfer system in VET and internationalise VET programs. 

Australia

• RMIT University, Vic (lead institution)
  
• TAFE NSW
  

EU

• Canterbury College, UK (lead institution)
  
• Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Netherlands
  
• VIA University College, Denmark
  
• Lycée Jean Perrin, Marseille, France
  

AUS-EUphe – Australian-European public health education

The AUS-EUphe consortium aims to strengthen health-related cultural understanding and training in the field of international public health education and practice.  The project plans to develop three core international public health modules, and address those elements of global public health – specifically human rights and social exclusion – not addressed in existing public health education programs.

Australia

• Griffith University (lead institution)
  
• Deakin University
  
• Flinders University
  
• Curtin University
  

EU

• University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany (lead institution)
  
• Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania
  
• Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
  
• University of Southern Denmark
  

SWaRM – Sustainable Water Resources Management

This project aims to train a new generation of specialists in the field of sustainable water resources and aims to allow future specialists and current academics in the project disciplines to share best practice in education and research, gain experience of water management in a different geographical spectrum; and foster international collaboration in a complex international environment.

Australia

• International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (lead institution)
  
• University of South Australia
  
• Central Queensland University
  
• Deakin University
  
• Flinders University
  
• University of Adelaide
  

EU

• University of Dundee – UK, (lead institution)
  
• Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
  
• Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  

RPL: A bridge between global industries (creative industries – hospitality)

This project aims to develop mutual recognition of skills in the creative industries and hospitality sectors at the international level.  The project seeks to promote greater cooperation between partners, with a focus on mapping equivalent components of training.  The project also seeks to develop the bi-certification of curricula between partner institutions under their respective qualification frameworks.

Australia

• QANTM College, Qld, (lead institution)
  
• SAE Institute
  
• Hospitality Training Association

EU

• Pikanmaa Vocational Institute, Finland, (lead institution)
  
• CNOS-FAP Federation, Italy
  
• ROC ASA, regional training college, Netherlands

Fourth Round outcomes 2006

Building and Interdisciplinary Collaborative Program in Business, Environment, Science and Technology

This project will bring together nine universities with expertise in environment, technology and business to create an interdisciplinary student mobility programme in environmental sustainability.  Through integrative study of business, environment, science and technology students will better understand the wider context and application of sustainability principles.

Australia

• Macquarie University (lead institution)
  
• Flinders University
  
• Griffith University
  
• La Trobe University
  
• Murdoch University
  
• University of Newcastle

EU

• The University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (lead institution)
  
• Bodenkultur University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  
• Linköping University, Sweden
  

Global Citizenship: European and Australian perspectives

This project brings together universities with expertise in globalisation studies, international relations, development studies and languages to create a student mobility programme.  Undergraduate students will examine aspects of global citizenship in the context of Europe’s transnational institutions and from Australia’s regional perspective.

Australia

• Macquarie University (lead institution)
  
• Flinders University
  
• La Trobe University

EU

• Malmö University, Sweden (lead institution)
  
• University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  
• University of Rome Tre, Italy
  
• Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  

Governance and Security: Challenges to Policing in the 21st Century

This project will bring together universities in Australia and the EU to offer criminology students the opportunity to undertake comparative study of policing methods and security issues.  Participating students will have the opportunity to develop a specialisation in security and governance, a topic which includes an exploration of contemporary debates about policing, particularly in relation to issues of local and national security.

Australia

• Griffith University (lead institution)
  
• Flinders University
  
• Monash University
  
• University of Western Sydney

EU

• Keele University, United Kingdom (lead institution)
  
• Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, France
  
• Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia
  

Network of Undergraduate Degrees in Ethics, Human Rights and Institutions

This project will bring together eight universities to create an integrated network of eight undergraduate degrees in ethics, human rights and institutions.  This network will bring together and build upon research-lead undergraduate programmes in these disciplines and will give students the opportunity to undertake a period of study in both Australia and the EU. 

Australia

• Charles Sturt University (lead institution)
  
• Australian National University
  
• University of Adelaide
  
• University of Melbourne

EU

• University of Lancaster, United Kingdom (lead institution)
  
• Luiss University, Rome, Italy
  
• University of Bielefeld, Germany
  
• University of Helsinki, Finland