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"The internationalisation strategy of the University of Wuppertal (BUW) aims to strengthen and systematise strategically important cooperation with selected partners and regions at all levels throughout the university. In addition to intensive cooperation within Europe, the focus is on Latin America, the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Regions from a second group, such as India and Central Asia, are being developed into focal points. Development policy motives can also be a selection criterion, which applies among others, to the Central Asian region. With strategic partner regions and institutions, cooperation takes place through dynamic development on a broad professional basis and at all levels. In the interplay of diverse projects and funding programmes, Erasmus+ is of high strategic importance both qualitatively and quantitatively. Starting in 2015, KA107 projects with Argentina and Kyrgyzstan were successfully implemented, and in 2016 and 2017 KA107 projects were additionally acquired with partners in Egypt and Namibia. In the 2017-2019 project, common goals and individual successes with all three countries: Argentina, Kyrgyzstan and Namibia were achieved. In summary, the following four goals can be named as the greatest successes of this project period: 1. the intensification of existing and new contacts,2. the quantitative increase in incoming mobility at all levels,3. the structure of the exchange accompanying research,4. the establishment of blended learning modules. While the intensification of existing/new contacts should be achieved by all partner country projects (1), the KA107 project with the two Argentine universities, the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP) and the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), has set itself the goal of building funded mobility at all levels (2). Since 2015 a DAAD funded international study and training partnership (ISAP) has linked the UNLP with the BUW, which enables undergraduate students, in this case bachelor and master students, to study abroad. The key action KA 107 of the Erasmus+ programme was able to add the mobility funding for doctoral students (graduate level). The seminars held as part of the regular co-teaching of lecturers from the two universities have proved to be an important interface between teaching and research and between the undergraduate and graduate level.The mobility project with the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan aimed at the support of young scientists, Master students and as well their teachers, in regard to their empirical research skills and their familiarity with the international research community and its standards (3). Although AUCA is certainly one of Central Asia’s best universities, the available research grants remain limited and do not allow intensive academic research. As a consequence, the publication experience is low. In both cases the Erasmus project was helpful. It involved students of the university as well as staff in research and teaching activities and the results of these activities were published or presented at international conferences. The project between the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST) and the BUW in the partner country Namibia focused on the didactic planning and the implementation of a blended learning module in Civil Engineering (4). The e-lectures were recorded in the studio of the Centre for Information and Media Processing (ZIM) of BUW and the blended learning module was equipped with elements such as interactive videos and assessment components. The module was implemented in the learning management system of the NUST. Within the framework of the Erasmus teaching mobility the staff of the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) as well as the Faculty of Civil Engineering were trained in the use of the e-learning components and familiarised with the didactic implementation. Finally, the digital teaching unit ""Advanced Transport Modeling"" for teaching and self-study was included in the curriculum of the NUST."
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