FRAMES

FRAMES aims to foster an harmonised implementation and accreditation of Virtual Exchange, as an integral part of (blended) mobility approaches, among European Higher Education Institutions, making the European Higher Education Area more innovative, intercultural and resilient.

Virtual Exchange (VE) is a practice that consists of sustained, technology-enabled, people-to people online exchange sessions in which constructive communication and interaction takes place with the support of educators or facilitators. The VE methodology has proven to work as a synergistic and complementary component of physical exchange programmes, showing that it can prepare, deepen, and extend physical exchanges, allowing more students to benefit from meaningful international and intercultural experiences as part of their Higher Education. Now it is high time to work to facilitate the integration of this approach in the daily mobility activities of as many EU universities as possible.

The project will:

• valorise successful scenarios of accredited VE, considered as an innovative, inclusive and intercultural complement to physical mobility
• build capacity of European HEIs to integrate and accredit VE as a key component of their mobility activities
• support HEIs, European Universities and HEI Networks in creating the conditions for long term harmonised integration and accreditation of physical, blended and virtual mobility.

The project is implemented by a consortium composed by UNIMED - Mediterranean Universities Union (coordinator), UNICollaboration, Sharing Perspectives Foundation, University of Girona, University of Limerick, University of Siena. The project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and spans over 2 years (March 2021 - February 2023).

More at: www.frames-project.eu