La MANCHE @ Platform 4 of Eastern Partnership

On 3rd December 2014 the La MANCHE project was presented at the Platform 4 “Contacts between people” session which was dedicated to higher education. The Platform 4 is part of the Eastern Partnership initiative launched in 2009 and responds to the desire of the EU's Eastern neighbors (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus) to move closer to the European Union.  Platform 4 is one of the four thematic platforms to exchange best practices on issues of mutual interest such as good governance, economic integration and growth, energy security and transport, contacts between people.

The recent session of Platform 4 had a thematic focus on internationalisation and mobility at the universities of the six countries involved. Christina Armutlieva, La MANCHE Project Coordinator had the opportunity to provide an overview of the project progress to date and to showcase how the transnational cooperation between the 29 project partners involved is contributing to the processes of internationalisation. During the meeting she also met senior officials from the Ministries of Education in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and discussed with them prospective participation of higher education policy makers in these countries in the La MANCHE VTT and more specifically their involvement in La MANCHE Strategy drafting.