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Task description

Project aim – proposing measures that may
increase the amount of outward student

exchanges
The Swedish Council for Higher Education, UHR, has conducted the project titled
“The Academic Value of Mobility” to increase outward student mobility. The pro-
ject was primarily financed by the European Commission and was conducted 1
November 2014 to 15 May 2018. Its purpose was to contribute to the EU’s mobil-
ity target of increasing the proportion of outward students from Sweden. The
Swedish Ministry of Education and Research was the principal for the project.

The project was conducted in two stages: one from November 2014 to April 2016,
and the second from May 2016 to May 2018. In the first stage, recommendations
were developed and three pilot projects were started. The second stage of the
project expanded both its breadth and depth by adding four more pilot projects
and by testing additional recommendations.

The aim of the project was to propose measures that could increase the amount
of outward exchange students. The proposed measures aim to clarify the aca-
demic value of mobility to increase outward student mobility, in the long term.
This report builds upon the recommendations and experiences of the first phase
of the project, which were published in 2016 in the report Åtgärder för att öka
antalet utresande utbytesstudenter – Förslag med fokus på vägledning och inter­
nationella och interkulturella lärandemål (Measures to Increase the Number of
Outward Exchange Students – suggestions focusing on guidance and international
and intercultural intended learning outcomes). 2

This report has a separate appendix section (only in Swedish) with the pilot
projects’ own reports and appendices. The report is worth reading without
the appendix, but reading the appendix is recommended for people who wish
to examine the pilot projects’ results or find inspiration in their supporting
documents and appendices. The appendix can be downloaded from UHR’s
website: https://www.uhr.se/internationella-mojligheter/Bolognaprocessen/
Projekt-for-att-oka-utgaende-studentmobilitet/

2 UHR: Åtgärder för att öka antalet utresande utbytesstudenter – Förslag med fokus på
vägledning och internationella och interkulturella lärandemål. Proposal developed
within the EU project, The Academic Value of Mobility, 2016.

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