International Academic Mobility: Towards a Concentration of the Minds in Europe. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.3.14

Autor/in	van der Wende, Marijk
Institution	University of California, Berkeley. Center for Studies in Higher Education
Titel	International Academic Mobility: Towards a Concentration of the Minds in Europe. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.3.14
Quelle	(2015), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Student Mobility; International Cooperation; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Human Capital; Educational Cooperation; Brain Drain; Qualitative Research; Scientific Research; Innovation; Research and Development; Financial Support; Talent; STEM Education; Labor Force Development; Universities; Profiles; Foreign Students; Graduate Students; Case Studies; Competition; Global Approach + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Humankapital; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Qualitative Forschung; Forschung und Entwicklung; Finanzielle Förderung; Begabung; Hochbegabung; STEM; Arbeitskräftebestand; University; Universität; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Graduate Study; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Wettkampf; Globales Denken
Abstract	The global competition and related international academic mobility in science and research is rising. Within this context, Europe faces quantitative skills shortages, including an estimate of between 800,000 and one million researchers. Within Europe skills imbalances and mismatches increase, with a growing divergence between countries and regions, in particular between the North and South, in terms of their ability to invest and attract human and financial capital for R&D. As a result intra-European mobility is not only on the rise, but may easily turn from an intended brain circulation into a brain drain--brain gain situation. From a qualitative perspective solutions to the skills shortages and imbalances relevant to science and innovation require the training of a broad mix of skills, which is currently provided to only in a minority of students in European higher education institutions and programmes. Will the intra-European flows of human and financial capital for R&D result in a further concentration of the minds in a limited number of regions or hubs in Europe? Is this (un)avoidable or (un)desirable? The further concentration of talent appears to be Europe's fate. These forces play out quite differently across the various disciplinary fields. In general the "STEM fields" (including engineering, natural, life and medical sciences) are already most internationalized and especially their experimental branches require the highest concentration of financial and human resources for large-scale and high-tech research infrastructure. The current combination of mobility and funding flows and trends seems to cause an increasing concentration of especially high-tech research capacity (in the natural and life sciences) in a limited number of regional hubs, which is likely to the detriment of the broad comprehensive profile of universities in certain weaker regions and countries in Europe. Those institutions may have to choose more specialized profiles, focusing more on less (human and financial) capital intensive fields in the social sciences and the humanities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01