Bulletin

Issue: June 2006

News

La Trobe in EU education link

La Trobe University is a major partner in two of four new projects creating educational links between Australia and the European Union.

The involvement with European higher education follows La Trobe's success, together with five other partners, in winning a European Union Centre earlier this year. This will further help build its European expertise over the next few years.

The four new projects have been jointly funded for $1.7 million (AUD) by the Australian Government and the European Commission.

Studies covered by the projects will range from international relations and security to environmental sustainability programs. Twelve Australian and 14 European universities will participate, enabling more than 160 Australian undergraduates to study in Europe for a semester.

The La Trobe Director of the Innovative Universities European Union Centre, Dr Philip Bull, said the University is involved in one project which links Macquarie, Flinders, Griffith, Murdoch and Newcastle Universities in Australia with the University of East Anglia (UK), Bodenkultur University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (Austria) and Linköping University (Sweden).

This project covers building an interdisciplinary collaborative program in business, environment, science and technology.

In the second project, La Trobe is grouped with Macquarie and Flinders Universities in Australia with Malmö University (Sweden), University of Cyprus, University of Rome (Italy) and Utrecht University (The Netherlands) on a project entitled 'Global Citizenship: European and Australian perspectives'.