Dear Colleagues,

See below for details about the European Centre for Economics Education.

If you have questions or comments, please contact the Economics Network.

Best wishes,

Miriam

Currently the Economics Network (UK) http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/ is 
preparing an EU bid under Erasmus Academic Networks:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc1016_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc/call11/fiches/era11_en.pdf

We feel, given the success and impact of the Economics Network in the UK 
over the last 11 years, we're ideally set up to create a similar network 
across Europe with the objective of improving economics education across 
Europe. We've now looking for European partners to be involved with the 
project.

Time is of the essence as this bid needs to be in by Feb 28. Currently our 
thinking about the bid is as below, at the end of the email, focussed on 
creating a European Centre for Economics Higher Education. Funding is for 3 
years.

Any partner's role in this could be taking a lead/participating in one or 
some of the subdiscipline wikis, or leading/participating in a Special 
Interest Group around any cross-European issue, or/and participating in the 
Centre's conference/annual meeting.  Clearly funding for this would come to 
you. For our part, we envisage administering the centre, coordinating 
activity, undertaking surveys/research and providing and running the web 
site and resources (our current website gets 3 million hits per year).

Please let us know if you would be interested in participating in this bid, 
have any ideas and comments about the bid and/or have any other European 
contacts who you think may be appropriate and interested by emailing us 
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Please forward this email to other potentially interested parties,

Best wishes



To create a European Centre for Economics Higher Education which will:
1.	Map the field of economics higher education across Europe, including 
identifying good and innovative practice, and identifying cross-European 
issues through:
•	Surveys of academic staff, students and key stakeholders in economics 
higher education
2.	Facilitate the sharing and development of good and innovative teaching 
practice in economics through:
•	The development of web platforms (e.g. wikis) to enable academics to 
share teaching materials in specific subdiscipline areas including European 
Economics, Financial Economics etc
•	The provision of a comprehensive online learning and teaching resource 
base for academic economists including:
•	online mobility guides for each country for economics teaching staff 
including PhD students who teach, providing an outline of each EU country's 
curricula, credit system, structures, current and innovative teaching modes 
etc.
•	The coordination of cross-European events including an annual meeting
3.	Identify and address current and future cross-European issues in 
economics higher education through
•	The creation of Special Interest Groups in alignment with European 
higher education policy including:
•	Economics graduate skills and competences
•	Curricula for sustainable economic development
•	Quality aspects
•	Linking research and teaching


Miriam Best
The Economics Network
University of Bristol
Telephone: 0117 3314333
EconomicsNetwork.ac.uk