1. Overview
Mobility within the European Higher Education area has increased enormously during the last 15 years. This development has changed teaching requirements in many departments, but there has been very little strategic planning with regard to mobility. The first phase (2001-2002) of our work in this field produced two exploratory reports (survey on mobility issues and mapping of institutional contracts in political science). The current phase II (2002-2003) uses the results of the first phase in devising a “Mobility homepage” on our web site; it also includes a workshop with papers analysing mobility questions from a perspective of single departments (leading to a published report). Phase III (2003-2004) will build upon the previous stages and will be the final year of the project.

2. Aims and Objectives
The team will concentrate on the questions of quality of teaching with regard to faculty and student mobility. Successful mobility programmes require a set of standards in teaching. Departments must know what is taught in partner universities and how. Trust in others is a key element. Quality issues can be solved only with a thorough knowledge of the contents of teaching. To achieve this aim, the team will organise two meetings with representatives of 10 selected political science departments, each participant outlining his/her own department’s teaching programme and analysing other programmes in detail. Participants will be selected on the basis of earlier work. The testing field will be the functioning of ECTS in regard to mobility and teaching programmes in political science.

3. General Output
Publication with concrete proposals to political science departments + recommendations (ECTS)

4. Deliverables
A collected volume of articles on different teaching programmes linked to problems of mobility and quality of teaching + Webpage.

5. Project leaders and teams
The two envisaged workshops will be organised, and the final publication supervised by Erkki Berndtson (Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki) with the help of a Sciences Po based research assistant. The “Mobility” homepage will be developed by the team based at the London Metropolitan University.