Managing Mobility: Perspectives and Support from DAAD

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Managing Mobility: Perspectives and Support from DAAD

Module B: Managing Mobility in TU Berlin

Institutional internationalisation strategies:

Perspectives and Support form the DAAD

18.05.2015

Dr. Simone Burkhart, Head of Division “Strategic Planning”, DAAD

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Outline

The DAAD

Kinds of Mobility

Incoming mobility: Strategies and DAAD-

Programmes

Outgoing mobility: Strategies and DAAD-

Programmes

Concluding remarks

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The DAAD

Kinds of Mobility


Programmes


Programmes

Concluding remarks

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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is …

An internationalisation agency, that

awards scholarships to German and international

students and researchers

creates institutional and structural conditions for

the internationalization of the German HE-System

…through more than 250 scholarship and funding

programmes

A self-governing organisation of

German universities:

238 member universities

107 student bodies

DAAD: Worldwide Network

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Buenos AiresSantiago de Chile

São Paulo

Bogotá

CaracasSan José

San Francisco

Toronto

Rio de Janeiro

Mexico City

New York

London

BrusselsParis

St. Petersburg

RigaMinsk

Moscow

KievWarsaw

Prague

Rome Bucharest

Novosibirsk

Budapest

Madrid

Tunis

AccraYaoundé

Nairobi

Athens

Belgrade Istanbul

Ankara

Addis Ababa

East Jerusalem

Abu Dhabi

Amman

Yerevan

Erbil

Tbilisi AlmatyBaku

Tehran

BishkekTashkent

Dushanbe

IslamabadKabul

PuneChennai

New Delhi

TokyoBeijing

Shanghai

Seoul

Taipei City

Hong Kong

Guangzhou

Hanoi

BangkokHo Chi Minh City

Kuala LumpurSingapore

Sydney

Information Centres (ICs)

Regional Offices

BonnBerlin

Johannesburg

Cairo

Jakarta

Tel Aviv

Kazan

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Budget 2014

Federal Ministry for Economic

Cooperation and Development (BMZ):

€ 41 million = 9 %

European Union (EU):

€ 65 million = 15 %

Other funding bodies:

€ 55 million = 13 %

Federal Foreign Office (AA):

€ 177 million = 40 %

Federal Ministry of Education and

Research (BMBF):

€ 103 million = 23 %

€ 441

million Other

EU

BMZBMBF

AA

Total:

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Outline

The DAAD

Kinds of Mobility


Programmes


Programmes

Concluding remarks

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Kinds of Mobility

Direction of Mobility

„incoming“

„outgoing“

Forms of Mobility

Degree mobility

Credit mobility

Bridge mobility

Target groups

Students

Researchers/

academic staff

Non academic staff

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The DAAD

Kinds of Mobility


Programmes


Programmes

Concluding remarks

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Incoming mobility: Goals

“Germany must take steps to retain its position as one of the top five leading host

countries form mobile international students. This entails attracting at least 350.000

foreign students to Germany by the end of the decade” (DAAD Strategy 2020)

Foreign Students 1997-2015

Mobility goals in international comparison

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China: from 328,000 to 500,000

52%

Japan: 138,000 to 300,000

117%

Malaysia: 93,000 to 200,000

115%

South Korea: 90,000 to 200,000

122%

Germany: 320,000 to 350,000

10%

France: 12,3% to 15%

22%

Canada: 265,000 to 450,000

70%

Source: DAAD research

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Incoming mobility: Goals

“The aim is to raise their academic success rate to that of German students.”

(Strategy DAAD 2020)

Success Rates

Foreign

Students

German

Students

Bachelor 59% 72%

Master 91% 89%

(Universitys)

93% (FHs)

Source: DZHW 2014

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Incoming mobility: Motivation

Ensuring the quality and the international competitiveness of

higher education in Germany

Giving home-students international experience

Demographics reasons

Gaining friends and partners for Germany

Importance of working in international teams to solve future

global challenges

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Incoming mobility: DAAD-Programmes and Activities

Scholarship programmes, examples:

DAAD scholarships for research and study (2013: 4,141)

Scholarships as part of cooperation programmes (2013: 5,824)

Specialist and language courses (2013: 2,684)

Structures for Internationalisation (project funding), examples:

Scholarship and guidance-councelling programmes (STIBET, 2013:

5,125)

DAAD funding for foreigners, 2014

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3,965IN

Western Europe

and Turkey

1,758IN

North America

8,410IN

Latin America

Sub-Saharan Africa

4,783IN

North Africa /

Middle East

Central and Eastern

Europe, CIS

Asia-Pacific

14,834IN

8,144IN

6,360IN

48,254Foreigners

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Campaigns and marketing:

Campaign „Study in Germany – Land of Ideas“

Research in Germany (RiG): research marketing campaign informs

foreign researchers about opportunities to study in Germany

International Higher Education Marketing: GATE (support and advice of German

HE institutions)

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The DAAD

Kinds of Mobility


Programmes


Programmes

Concluding remarks

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Incoming mobility: Goals and Motivation

DAAD strategic goal: 50% of all graduates are mobile by 2020

“By the end of this decade, we wish to ensure that one in every two German

graduates gain substantial academic experience abroad” (Strategy DAAD 2020)

Specification:

Degree and credit mobility

German graduates: BA/MA

Motivation:

Enhance international understanding

Preparing for an international working environment

Developing professional skills (language, creativity, team work…) and personal skills

(intercultural tolerance, self-confidence, openness…)

Ambassadors for Germany and the German higher education system

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Outgoing mobility: Status quo

German Students abroad: 1991-2012 (in tausend)

Percentage of credit-mobile

graduates: 30%

Growing number of degree-mobile

students (139,000 in 2012)

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Scholarships for the Best, examples:

DAAD scholarships for research and study (2013: 1,482)

Internship programmes (2013: 1,822)

Conference travel and lecture tours (2013: 2,566)

Structures for Internationalisation (project funding), examples:

The Erasmus Programme (2014: 40,500)

Programme to enhance the mobility of German students – PROMOS (2013: 9,764)

International study and exchange programmes: Iouble Degree Programmes,

Bachelor Plus, ISAP (2013: 2,038)

Strategic Partnerships/ Thematic Networks (2013: 784 (incoming and outgoing))

Campaign, Marketing:

Go-out – Studieren weltweit

DAAD funding for Germans, 2014*

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43,002OUT

Western Europe

and Turkey

5,741OUT

North America

3,416OUT

Latin America

Sub-Saharan Africa

1,923OUT

North Africa /

Middle East

Central and Eastern

Europe, CIS

Asia-Pacific

10,034OUT

6,799OUT

1,923OUT

72,857Germans *including EU

programmes

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The DAAD

Kinds of Mobility


Programmes


Programmes

Concluding remarks

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Strategies and implementation: the role of the DAAD

Ministry

University

DAAD

Individual

The DAAD as intermediary

organisation

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Focus on incoming AND outgoing mobility

Supporting students, researchers and artists in both

directions

72,857Germans have seen

the world (2014)

48,254foreigners have come

to Germany (2014)

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Current developments and challenges

Multilingualism: English as lingua franca and the role of

German

Digitalisation and it’s impact on mobility

Brain gain, brain drain and brain circulation

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Thank you for your attention.

Dr. Simone Burkhart

Head of Division „Strategic Planning“

[email protected]

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

German Academic Exchange Service

Kennedyallee 50

53175 Bonn

www.daad.de

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