{"id":1111,"date":"2018-08-23T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T08:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:04:31","slug":"kents-participation-in-the-erasmus-mundus-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2018\/08\/23\/kents-participation-in-the-erasmus-mundus-action-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s participation in the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Lotus projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kent 3rd highest participant in the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main objective of the\u00a0Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme 2010-2018\u00a0was to promote partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) from Europe with universities\u00a0from the\u00a0rest of the world. The aim was to enhance\u00a0socio-economic development through academic cooperation and the exchange of students and staff. The European Commission has recently released a report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/eacea.ec.europa.eu\/sites\/2007-2013\/erasmus-mundus-programme_en\">Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme,<\/a>\u00a0highlighting the main achievements. We are proud that Kent is the third highest participant in the UK, for the number of projects within this framework.<\/p>\n<p>Kent was a full partner in all five editions of the Lotus programme, which linked universities in South East Asia with EU HEIs. The Lotus programme was coordinated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ugent.be\/en\">Ghent University, Belgium,<\/a> and in the case of Lotus+, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.se\/en\">Uppsala University, Sweden.<\/a> Kent received a number of outstanding students as part of this project, including Gregorius Wicaksana from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itb.ac.id\/\">Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia<\/a>. Gregorius was selected to represent the University at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research in April 2013. Gregorius hugely appreciated his experience of studying at Kent; \u2018The city, University, and professors were so helpful and encouraging; everything combines to produce the most amazing and conducive environment for learning\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of bilateral memoranda of understanding have developed as a result of\u00a0cooperation under the Lotus programme.\u00a0Kent looks to build on these partnerships, strengthening research, mobility and international cooperation across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme\u00a0has now come to a close but activity previously funded by the programme is supported in the other strands of Erasmus+. Kent is actively engaged in Erasmus+ projects that support international cooperation, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/global\/partnerships\/kent-staff\/internationalopportunities.html\">International Credit Mobility<\/a> and Capacity Building projects. For more information please contact <a href=\"mailto:internationalpartnerships@kent.ac.uk\">internationalpartnerships@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent 3rd highest participant in the UK The main objective of the\u00a0Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme 2010-2018\u00a0was to promote partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2018\/08\/23\/kents-participation-in-the-erasmus-mundus-action-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39527,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}