European and Asian university students will create and share videos on a virtual community within the project TuBeMates

The main objective of the project is to enhance both the visibility and attractiveness of European Higher Education among Asian students.
The main objective of the project is to enhance both the visibility and attractiveness of European Higher Education among Asian students.
(19/09/2013)

The main objective of the Erasmus Mundus project TuBeMates is to enhance both the visibility and attractiveness of European Higher Education among Asian students by creating a virtual community on which students who have participated in a Asian-European exchange share videos as a way to report their experience. UB coordinates this project that is presented on Friday 20 September in the Aula Magna of the Historic Building.

The main objective of the project is to enhance both the visibility and attractiveness of European Higher Education among Asian students.
The main objective of the project is to enhance both the visibility and attractiveness of European Higher Education among Asian students.
19/09/2013

The main objective of the Erasmus Mundus project TuBeMates is to enhance both the visibility and attractiveness of European Higher Education among Asian students by creating a virtual community on which students who have participated in a Asian-European exchange share videos as a way to report their experience. UB coordinates this project that is presented on Friday 20 September in the Aula Magna of the Historic Building.

First TuBeMates videos will be created by participating universities and some institutions which have a strong relationship with Asia and higher education, such as ACC10 - Government of Catalonia or Casa Asia. In September, students will begin to share their videos on TuBeMates. Any Student who has made or is making an Asian-European university exchange can participate. Students can be creative when explaining their own experience. A video contest will close the project. Social networks and virtual communities will be used as tools to promote studentsʼ participation.

 
The presentation, which takes place on 20 September, is entitled “Europe and Asia: How to stimulate mobility and collaboration”. It includes the speeches pronounced by Kumiko Haba, professor from Aoyama Gakuin University, in Tokyo, and Edith Genser, from the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission. Genser will briefly introduce the new Erasmus Mundus programme, which will be named ʻEramus+ʼ, and describe the experience of the Regional Cluster on Asia. After the presentation, students can begin to share videos on TuBeMates.
 
TuBeMates is born when most Asian students choose the United States and, in the case of Europe, the United Kingdom to make a stay. According to data provided by the 3rd Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) of Education ministers, 75% of Asian students who come to Europe stay at English universities. Moreover, the number of Asian students who come to Europe is six times higher than the number of European ones who visit Asia.
 
Besides UB, the universities who participate in TuBeMates are: the University of Graz (Austria), Marconi University (Rome, Italy), the University of Poitiers (France), Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan), Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand), and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam). It is important to remark that any European or Asian Student can participate in TuBeMates; to be a student at any of these education institutions is not a requirement.
 
TuBeMates, coordinated by the UB professor Begoña Gros, is part of Erasmus Mundusʼ Action 3, which gathers projects aimed at promoting European higher education through measures enhancing the attractiveness of Europe as an educational destination and a centre of excellence at world level. Within Action 3, the UB also leads the project Linking-Med-Gulf, coordinated by Professor Ramon Torrent, which gathers European, South Mediterranean, Middle East and Persian Gulf universities.