Task Force European Portal for International Courses and Services (EPICS)

Chair: Janerik Lundquist (Linköping University)
Already several initiatives and programmes are running in international course exchange and virtual mobility within Europe. By opening each other’s university programmes we open a world of new and specialised courses for our students and enable them to build highly individualised study programmes.

The expertise and protocols of cooperation in this field is currently developed within several isolated projects. The TF EPICS intends to collect these findings of related projects and translate these in an institutionalised international database on content and services. EPICS therefore provides a link between universities, students and courses all over Europe. EPICS will not only be a database but also include on-line services to offer high quality guided independent leaning and support organising mainstream offering of VM in a Virtual Erasmus scheme.

This European portal serves also as the instrument working towards Virtual Erasmus. EPICS therefore will strongly contribute to increasing the number of student mobility throughout Europe and support the realisation of a European Higher Education Area.