Abstract:

Global world claims for global education system. The latter is most beneficial as it implies sharing knowledge and findings accumulated during a long period of research, practice and further analysis. Erasmus+ as a programme of academic mobility is due to hit this target as well as to involve mostly each country of the global world. The ultimate goal of the programme is to make higher education system coincide with the certain European direction enabling and boosting international cooperation in higher education framework taking the model European education programs as an example.

Erasmus+ programme enjoys three directions in its realization known as Actions. Action 1 implies grants for joint magistrate and doctoral programmes. Action 2 is aimed at universities cooperation. Finally, Action 3 regards encouraging students to take a course in a European University.

Russian universities welcome the Erasmus+ programme as an opportunity for gifted as well as enthusiastic students either to take a course in some European University as an traineeship or to work for a Master’s degree there after completing a four-year course in their alma mater. The choice of countries and universities to opt for further studies is vast. Literally there are more than 100 magistrate courses functioning to date within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme.

The programme together with the academic mobility project belongs to the primary directions in intercultural communication development in Moscow universities. Moreover, it enables students to apply for a grant to get financial support during studies. The certain grants are coordinated by international educational institutions, national departments of education in collaboration with embassies or plenipotentiaries both in Russia and in the country where the university the student is inclined to go is located.

Moscow City University as one of major educational institutions functioning not only in Moscow, but in the whole country aims at developing international cooperation with leading universities and educational organizations from around the world as well as providing academic mobility of students, professors and scientific officers.

Within the framework of Erasmus+ Moscow City University enables students to get a Master’s degree in a number of universities in France (Artois University), Poland (the University of Gdańsk), (UK (Nottingham University), Italy (the University of Parma), Spain (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia), Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Lithuania (with Credit Mobility Erasmus+ programme).

Hence, corresponding to a new tendency in higher education targeted establishing and strengthening interrelations between universities around the world, Erasmus+ in this case is not only a tool but an intermediary that enables to make the world global indeed.

Keywords:

ERASMUS+, academic mobility, international cooperation.