The MMT aims at drawing attention to the various forms and types of academic mobility, allowing institutions to demonstrate the benefits, challenges and overall scope of mobility that extend beyond national or regionally prescribed quantitative measuring. It will encourage institutions to be proactive in defining their individual approaches regarding mobility in a more coherent and integrated way.

To do this the Mobility Mapping Tool, offers higher education institutions the opportunity to undergo a voluntary ‘mobility self-evaluation’, consisting of questionnaires, mapping exercises and various types of internal consultation. The self-evaluation is supplemented by interactive activities such as practice sharing with colleagues from other institutions, which will be facilitated by an on-line workspace (MAUNIMO Mobility Community) and two workshops that take place between October 2011 and April 2012.

While the self-evaluation reports will remain confidential and the property of the participating universities, the project’s aggregated results are intended to feed into the ongoing policy debate on mobility and how to both measure and enhance it.

The MAUNIMO consortium will assess the prospects of opening the MMT to other universities after the pilot (mid-2012)