Virtual Mobility

REVE - 'Real Virtual Erasmus'

• Funding programme and duration
  The REVE project was supported by the European Commissions’ eLearning Programme and ran for 24 months from January 2005 until the end of December 2006.
  
  
• Project Background
  Virtual Erasmus can both include taking courses abroad while staying at the home university and vice-versa and/or complementing the existing physical Erasmus exchange programmes with virtual preparatory and follow-up activities. However, teachers and educational support staff experience that the necessary technical, pedagogical and organizational support services to ensure that these activities can be easily embedded as an integrated part in the mainstream educational offer, are missing. At the same time there is a lack of concrete scenarios, models and implementation procedures, best practice examples for implementing virtual mobility. Therefore, Virtual Mobility programmes remain a challenge for both students and teachers.
  
  
• Objectives and activities
  The objectives of the REVE project are to enhance the impact and efficiency of the Erasmus programme through the set-up of and support for a full-fletched virtual Erasmus action;

  (1) as a complement to the existing Erasmus exchange programmes in which virtual Erasmus can be used to prepare and follow-up the physical mobility or/and take courses at the home university while staying abroad;

  (2) to embed networked e-learning (in transnational collaboration of teachers and students) as an integrated part in mainstream higher education, aiming at transferability, scalability and sustainability: joint programme and course development, joint learning activities as virtual integrated elements of blended learning, ‘following’ (e.g. elective) courses abroad in a virtual mode;

  (3) to develop and provide the necessary technical, pedagogical and organizational services to guarantee these objectives to be realised.
  

• Available outputs
  The major output from the REVE project is the Manual on Virtual Mobility . This online publication has the aim to introduce Virtual Moblity with all its aspects to teachers of higher education, to support them while implementing this mobility in their course and thus giving students the opportunity to broaden their study experience.
  
  
• Partners
  EuroPACE ivzw (BE), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE), KHKempen (BE), Aalborg University (DK), FernUniversitaet Hagen (DE), University of Granada (ES), Helsinki University of Technology (FI), BEST (European Student Assoc.) (FR), University of West Hungary (HU), University of Rome-La Sapienza (I), Consorzio NETTUNO (I), College of Management and Public Administration Zamosc (PL), Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Escola Superior de Comunicação Social (PT), EDEN (UK), University of Strathclyde (UK)
  
  
• Project website
  http://reve.europace.org/
  
• Contact details
  contact name: Ilse Op de Beeck
  organisation: EuroPACE ivzw
  e-mail: reve@europace.be