European Union/Australia Joint Cooperation in Higher Education and Training Successful submissions of Joint Mobility Projects

Sixth round outcomes 2009 The Meanings and Practices of Social Work: cross-national comparisons This project aims to develop international social work as a profession that recognises common values and objectives, and appreciates differences related to national contexts. The consortium will undertake cross-national comparisons in two key areas crucial to the development of a professional workforce which is competent in working with diversity and difference. It will establish opportunities for long-term research and professional practice collaborations.

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Deakin University (lead institution) Central Queensland University University of Sydney Curtin University

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University of Salford, England (lead institution) VIA University College, Denmark ELTE University, Hungary Uppsala University, Sweden

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Design Education Partnership and Knowledge Transfer This project links leading European and Australian design schools in the joint development of an innovative curriculum in the area of design thinking. Design thinking is global and multi-disciplinary in nature and emerging as an important component of design education and other disciplines like business. Each of the partners have strong industry links and offer work integrated learning as part of their award programs.

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Swinburne University of Technology (lead institution) University of Technology, Sydney Griffith University

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The University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland (lead institution) L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, France Business Academy Southwest, Denmark Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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Intercultural Excellence in Mechatronic Engineering Education This project provides the possibility for master students to do an industry-oriented research project in the realm of mechatronic systems at an overseas partner. It aims to achieve a very strong integration of the visiting students in the local research team and to maximise linguistic, intercultural and technical experience. The project also develops a new course which links the disciplines of mechatronics, electronics, IT and control theory to a mechatronic product.

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University of Melbourne (lead institution) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Curtin University of Technology

RMIT University

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Technical University Munich, Germany (lead institution) Technical University of Lodz, Poland University of Vigo, Spain

Developing and Delivering a Graduate Certificate in International Studies (hospitality) This project aims to develop and deliver an international curriculum at the graduate certificate level. It focuses on hospitality students who have completed either a vocational or higher education qualification and would like to continue to study at a higher level and gain an international perspective of their industry area. The project will provide students and staff with advanced skills in online learning, collaboration and best practice.

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Box Hill Institute (VET) (lead institution) South West TAFE Warrnambool Challenger TAFE Perth

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Adam Smith College, Scotland (lead institution) Silkeborg Technical School, Denmark Alfa College, Netherlands

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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RMIT University, Vic (lead institution) TAFE NSW

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

RMIT University

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Macquarie University (lead institution) Flinders University La Trobe University

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

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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.

RMIT University

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

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

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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.

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

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

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RMIT University

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