The Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) is happy to announce the release of the new publication ‘Connecting mobility policies and practice: Observations and recommendations on national and institutional developments in Europe’ – a joint production of the European University Association (EUA) and ACA. The paper puts forward a series of observations and recommendations for enhancing the complementarity between higher education mobility policies (for both students and staff) at the institutional, national and European level. It does so by highlighting a number of issues that could be of wider relevance across different European countries and by raising a number of important questions on how institutional and national policies could both relate and at times diverge. 

The publication is divided in three main sections, as follows:

• The first section of the paper outlines a series of observations on specific elements of practice in higher education institutions, for example relating to the implementation and monitoring of mobility strategies, the organisational structures in place for managing mobility, the integration of international staff and students, strategies for enhancing staff mobility, international work placements, and language policies.
• The second section looks to provide some guidance for national policy-makers, in particular education ministries, with regard to developing and implementing national mobility-related policies. 
• The final section of the paper provides some suggestions on how current European mobility objectives (such as those outlined in the Bologna Process and at EU-level) could be enhanced in line with national and institutional interests. 

The paper is based on the results of the EU-funded and EUA-led project 'Mobility Policy-Practice Connect' (MPPC), as well as a number of other mobility-related studies and projects that both ACA and EUA have carried in the past several years. 

The full paper, 'Connecting mobility policies and practice: Observations and recommendations on national and institutional developments in Europe', can be downloaded here.

MPPC project