Update for Utrecht Network

Annual General Meeting 2019

Introduction and Background

The Australian-European Network (AEN) Secretariat has moved from Western Sydney University (WSU) as of 1st January 2019, and now sits with Edith Cowan University (ECU) for a two year term. The current Secretariat is Broderick Moncrieff, who has prepared this report with the support of Jonna Haensel-Neumann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Central Queensland University

The addition of Central Queensland University (CQU) to the AEN is progressing smoothly, with the first exchange of students from the Utrecht Network (UN) to CQU occurring in the Australian Semester 2 2019.

AEN-UN Event 2019

Edith Cowan University is currently finalising plans for an AEN and UN member event for 2019, tentatively at NAFSA. Once the plan is formalised, the AEN Secretariat will send a formal invitation to the UN Secretariat to share with the Network.

April 2019 1 Utrecht Network Outbound to AEN 2018/19

In the 2018/2019 academic year, 37 students from the UN participated in an exchange with an AEN partner university, with a total of 40 semesters. This represents a year-on-year decrease of 21%. There were more applications in total (47) but quite a lot of students withdrew them in the meantime (10 students, 21%). It was quite difficult to replace them. In general, we had a lot of nominations from UN partners. But there is always only a limited number of available places for students from about 30 European UN partners. at 7 AEN partner institutions in Australia.

2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 Students 56 47 37 YoY Change - -16% -21%

Leipzig University, University of Antwerp, University of Basel, University of Graz, University of Lille and Ruhr-University Bochum had the highest number of participating students this cycle, each sending 3 (8%). The top receiving AEN universities for this cycle were Deakin University, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University and University of Wollongong, each hosting 7 students (19%).

The graphs below show a breakdown of students by AEN host University and UN home university:

UN to AEN Student Experiences 2018/2019

6 7 Deakin University, AU Edith Cowan University, AU Griffith University, AU University of Tasmania, AU University of Wollongong, AU 7 Western Sydney University, AU 7

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UN Student Experiences

by UN Home University Aarhus University

Comenius University in Bratislava Complutense University of Madrid 2 2 Leipzig University 2 1 2 Masaryk University 2 Ruhr-University Bochum 3 2 University of Antwerp

1 University of Basel 3 University of Coimbra 3 1 University of Graz

2 University of Helsinki 3 University of Hull 3 3 2

April 2019 3 Australian European Network Inbound to UN 2018/19

In the 2018/2019 academic year, 48 students from the AEN participated in exchange with an UN partner university, with a total of 50 semesters. This represents a year-on- year increase of 17%. But we experienced the same phenomenon as for the direction Europe to Australia: In the beginning there was a higher number of applications in total (58 students) but 10 students withdrew them.

2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 Students 38 40 48 YoY Change - 5% 20%

Figures show that Deakin University, Griffith University, University of Tasmania and Edith Cowan University continue to send the highest proportions of students. In this cycle, Griffith University had the highest number of participating students, sending 14 (29%), followed by University of Tasmania sending 10 (21%). Western Sydney University and University of Wollongong continue to have the lowest outbound participation rates. The top receiving UN university this cycle was University of Bologna hosting 9 students (19%), followed by Utrecht University hosting 6 students (13%) and University of Valencia and Eötvös Loránd University hosting 5 students (10%).

AEN Student Experiences by Home University

4 8 5 Deakin University Edith Cowan University

7 Griffith University University of Tasmania 10 University of Wollongong Western Sydney University

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April 2019 4 AEN Student Experiences by UN Host University Comenius University in Bratislava, SK Complutense University of 1 1 Madrid, ES 6 Eötvös Loránd University, HU 5 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL 1 Leipzig University, DE 5 1 1 Masaryk University, CZ

2 Queen's University Belfast, GB 1 1 1 Ruhr-University Bochum, DE

2 University College Cork, IE 4 2 University of Antwerp, BE

1 2 University of Bergen, NO 2 University of Bologna, IT 9 University of Coimbra, PT

Nominations for 2019/20 Exchange Cycle AEN to UN and UN to AEN nominations and applications for the coming 2019/2020 exchange cycle are currently in progress. UN to AEN nominations for Australian Semester 2 2019 and Australian Semester 1 2020 are roughly consistent with the same cycle of 2018/2019 with 42 students comprising of 47 semester places. Once again, it should be noted, that 100% of places made available to the Utrecht Network member universities at Australian partners have been subscribed so far. AEN to UN nominations for Northern Fall 2019 are down on previous year, with 21 students nominated. In Northern Fall 2018, 31 students were nominated corresponding to 32 semester places.

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