eMundus is an initiative supported by the European Commission which wants to to strengthen cooperation and awareness among Higher Education Institutions worldwide by exploring the potential of Open Approaches (e.g. OER, MOOCs and VM) to support long term, balanced, inter-cultural academic partnership for improving learning and teaching through Open Education approaches.
eMundus wants to act as a facilitator for the most promising ideas and practices to be mapped, discussed, and possibly adopted. In doing so, eMundus will support intercultural development of curriculum components and will generalise successful practices of HE cooperation based on mutual trust and specialisation, at the same time will broaden equity and accessibility of world level study programmes.
We believe that Open Education (including MOOCs and Virtual Mobility) is not a solution to the urging challenges of reducing the unitary cost of higher education, but rather a way to help establish long-term international partnership, aiming for an open international setting where universities cooperate based on their capacity not only to attract international students but to meaningfully cooperate and share experiences with counterpart universities.