The project aims to draw attention to the existing gap among students with realistic opportunities for mobility and those without. Erasmus Gap brings a European perspective to a topic that is mainly handled at national or even institutional level.
The Erasmus Gap project intends to go a step further by actually documenting the significant gap between students choosing a mobility during their studies and those who do not for socio-economic reasons. The visualisation of the large-scale data sets the project will collect from different European countries will help HEIs and national agencies to develop their own instruments in order to fully seize the importance of this gap and its negative impact in terms of social inclusion. Data from our Ukrainian partner will further reveal how important it is to take the specific needs of Ukrainian students during times of war into account, especially as far as the EU ambition of greater European integration and cohesion is concerned. The policy recommendations based on a very robust set of data will be designed to put irrefutable facts on the table regarding the state of play of inclusive participation in mobility and how this can be tracked in a authoritative manner moving forward, taking into consideration the usefulness of potential impact of making such activities a regular aspect of the strategic planning and monitoring of implementation of the Erasmus programme. These recommendations will also consider known relationships with funding parameters that may help improve socio-economic imbalances on the makeup of the mobile student population.
The Erasmus Gap project will therefore provide data and tools that could play a key role in Erasmus+ midterm and other political debates around the level of financing of the Erasmus+ project in view of such vital topics as greater European inclusion and cohesion.
