Organizers

European Association of ERASMUS Coordinators - EAEC

SOCRATES-ERASMUS National Agency - Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus

Academy of Humanities and Economics, Poland - University of Cyprus, Cyprus - Univerzita Tomαše Bati ve Zlνne, Czech Republic - University of Ioannina, Greece - Universita’ Degli Studi di Trieste, Italy - Vilnius College in Higher Education, Lithuania - Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey

 Host Organizing Institution: Intercollege - Cyprus

Final Announcement and Call for Papers/National Reports

ERASMUS coordinators and Bologna Promoters have a lot of information and experiences to exchange and learn from each other. On 2-4 June 2004 there was an International Conference on Experience of Socrates/Erasmus Coordinators "What's up among us?" organized in Lodz, Poland, where many ERASMUS coordinators were present and a lot of ideas and experiences were exchanged. During this conference a new Association was created with the name 'European Association for ERASMUS coordinators-EAEC". The official kick off of the Association is planned to take place during the ERACON2005 conference, which is expected to host over 200 ERASMUS coordinators, Bologna promoters and other officials and experts from all over Europe and beyond.

The main themes of the conference include:

ERASMUS coordinators are invited to make presentations and submit written papers on their experiences in the themes above. Workshops within the conference are also invited to discuss specific topics and to draw up concrete suggestions, which can be used by the EC (Education and Culture) in order to improve the ERASMUS programme in general as well as elements of the Bologna Process. The conference also invites Bologna promoters and experts who will exchange experiences from their activities during 2004-2005 year and an attempt to produce a good practise booklet through a selection of papers, which will be published in the proceedings of the conference.

The conference will be concluded with a two stage Exchange Educational Fair through which each university could provide information to other universities on the programmes offered and arrangements for teacher and student mobility. The fair is expected to serve as a basis for further bilateral agreements between institutions.