MAUNIMO aims at developing and testing a Mobility Mapping Tool (MMT) that should enable universities to make strategic decisions on internationalisation and mobility in particular. It will support universities to:

• Assess and further develop their institutional Strategies for International Mobility (IMS)

• Assess their data collection with regards to mobility (what, why and how collected), and how to enhance this for strategic institutional decision making
• Enhance and synergise strategic approaches regarding mobility across different levels of the institution (internationalisation, research, teaching etc)
• Evaluate the purpose of data collection in the institution and the ultimate beneficiaries or users of this data (students, employers, national statistical agencies, European Union...)
• Share creative practices and solutions in both strategising and in collecting/utilising institutional data on student and staff mobility

The innovative practice of the project lies in the approach: The MMT is being built by four different European universities to respond to their own interest, guided by the wider regional perspective of the European University Association. It is not intended to be a static product, but rather continually built throughout the project, via the testing phase and the workshops that will support the universities in the testing and generate discussion on its design, flexibility and efficiency. What is more, the tool will not be prescriptive, but rather encourage universities to share practice on mobility data collection and strategic approaches.

Regarding scope, the project will:

• Take into account mobility of students, PhD students / young researchers and staff (administrative and academic)
• Consider both 'credit' (short-term) and 'degree mobility'
• Focus on triggering discussions on strategy and data collection inside the participating institutions
•  Allow interaction and comparison of knowledge on mobility practices in
  • institutions
  • between the participating institutions

The project will not ask institutions to assess concepts such as “virtual mobility” or “internationalisation at home”,  though these are clearly critical issues with regards to the future of internationalisation.