EMA General Assemblies

Representatives of most of the Erasmus Mundus Courses, active members of the Association, officers of the European Commission, boards of EMA regional chapter and complete EMA Steering Committee - bright and energetic crowd gathers every year at a different European city. EMA is grateful to the following prominent universities who have hosted the General Assemblies:

2008: The University for Foreigners Perugia, Italy

2009: Vilnius University, Lithuania

2010: Technical University of Madrid, Spain

2011: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

EMA General Assembly 2012 is held at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

EMA Liaison Group Meetings

EMA Steering Committee and representatives of each EMA Team and EMA regional chapter gather twice a year in Brussels at the premises of the DG EAC of the European Commission to discuss further development of the Association, to report on the passed and planned activities and events, to network, brainstorm and enjoy the feeling of Erasmus Mundus community.

Information about Liaison Group Meeting in December 2011

Annual Thematic Conferences

Thematic conference "Communication: let's re-define the terms" was held on March 29-30, 2010 in Bordeaux, France hosted by the University of Bordeaux and supported by the French National Structure. The aim of the conference was to provide a platform to hold a constructive dialogue on communication between people from all disciplines of academia; in other words to develop a healthy inter-communication and intra-communication mechanism between engineers, lawyers, medical doctors, journalists, environmentalists, economists, technologists, policy makers and researchers on the acute issues of communication in the framework of our present world and social system from various perspectives.
Erasmus Mundus: Higher Education in Europe and the Dilemma of Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Africa was the title of the conference hosted by the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. That country is the most active African country in terms of number of selected Erasmus Mundus students. The conference addressed the phenomenon of education mobility and impact of internationalisation of education on the brain drain at the African continent.
Erasmus Mundus Conference – Higher Education and Climate Change was the first large scale EMA event that took place in February 2009 at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary gathering students and graduates of a variety of Erasmus Mundus Courses dealing with the different perspectives on climate change and environment sustainability.

REALISE IT

REALISE IT is a pilot joint initiative of EMA and OCEANS Network. It aims to utilise the potential of both networks by launching projects that can stretch across the world activating the networks by empowering the members to work on joint projects and thus to create traceable networking success examples. The following projects have been selected in 2011:

Human[I ]ties Perspective 2012: An Annual Conference of Humanities
The Whiteboard Initiative: Participate in the education sector of India
An international travel and tourism company
Go green! Can EMA become an environmentally friendly community?
MyPod: A wireless monitoring device
Unexus.org

Kick-off event for the project teams took place in Brussels in October, 2011.