What this project intends to do

• Assess and further develop institutional Strategies for International Mobility (IMS)[1]
• Assess how information on mobility is collected (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 and learning, etc)
• Evaluate the purpose of data collection in the institution and the ultimate beneficiaries or users of this data (students, employers, careers counsellors, national statistical agencies, European Union...)
• Share creative practices and solutions in both strategising and in collecting/utilising institutional data on student and staff mobility
• Encourage universities to be proactive in defining their individual institutional approaches regarding mobility, while at the same time understanding, managing (and hopefully influencing) the national and regional agendas.

What it does not intend to do

• to rank, classify or benchmark universities against one another. It would rather assist them in their strategy development, and assessment and enhancement of institutional practice with regards to mobility. This should not rule out that universities would use it to compare and discuss how they approach mobility amongst themselves.
• to collect and aggregate institutional mobility data. EUA and its project partners will use the information received only to assess the usefulness of the tool for institutions, and also develop policy messages for the current European discussions on measuring and improving mobility. Data provided will not be shared or published without the consent of the participating institutions.
• to devise ways and methods to better collect data beyond the institutional level. The emphasis is clearly on institutional data collection, and based on the assumption that universities may have different data needs. It is of course not excluded that outcomes of the project could inspire e.g. national data collection.
• to provide an IT tool for the administration of mobility and related data collection. However, it should stimulate and facilitate exchange on this particular issue among interested universities.
• to duplicate efforts of other existing projects intended to track and measure mobility/ support the internationalization of institutions

[1] IMS is a term used by the MAUNIMO project to describe one or several strategies, targets, ambitions, etc relating to the mobility of students, staff and researchers. It is not expected that institutions have a separate and single strategy for mobility, though there may be departmental or degree-level targets. Rather, mobility may be part or several different institutional strategies: internationalization, development aid, research, employability, quality assurance, etc.