Executive summary

• Author: European Education and Culture Executive Agency (European Commission)
• Pages: 6-8

6INTRAACP ACADEMIC MOBILITY SCHEME  SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS’ IMPACT SURVEY RESULTS

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme – Scholarship Holders’ Impact Survey Results presents the

results of a survey carried out in the form of a questionnaire during the period December 2018 –

January 2019. The survey was launched with the aim to evaluate the implementation of the Intra-

ACP Academic Mobility Scheme, the experience and satisfaction of the scholarship holders, as well as

the impact on individuals who benetted from the Mobility Scheme. The results also provide a useful

guidance and a reference point for the development of future mobility programmes in the targeted

regions.

The following pages provide an encouraging picture of the Programme. The majority of respondents

view their experience during mobility very positively both from an academic and administrative

perspective. In addition, most of the scholarship holders who took part in the survey agree that their

participation in the Programme has had a very positive impact on their personal and professional

development. Nearly all survey participants reported that they either returned or intend to return

to their home country, which suggests that the favourable impact on the scholarship holders would

spillover in their countries of origin resulting in brain gain.

However, the survey results also draw attention to several challenges that need to be addressed,

including tackling gender imbalance, improving feedback loops and recognition, as well as uneven

mobility ows.

A representative sample

The survey can be considered representative of the actual population of beneciaries:

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922 scholarship holders participated in the survey, out of which 87% are students while 13% are

sta. They represent 53 of all 1741 scholarship holders. The regional distribution of respondents

compared to the real scholarship holders is commensurate.

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The gender distribution among the survey participants and the real beneciaries is also analogous.

The overall rate of male survey participants (66) is nearly double that of the female (34).

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Most respondents are Master students, followed by Doctorate students, as well as Academic and

Administrative sta, reecting the actual prole of the beneciaries and the Programme’s targets

per type of mobility. The majority of the survey participants have nished their mobility at the time

of the survey.

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All 20 funded projects were represented in the survey with an average response rate of 55 per

project.

Inclusiveness

Every partnership selected under the Programme was required to tackle cross-cutting issues like

gender-balance, equal opportunities and the participation of disadvantaged groups. The data supplied

by the survey suggests mostly promising results with regard to inclusiveness.

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In total 30% of the respondents consider their background as disadvantaged varying from 28% for

Africa to 35 for Caribbean and Pacic.

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The scholarship holders come from very varied households in terms of their parents’ level of

education and employment status. 55 of the respondents’ mothers and 38 of their fathers

either had no formal education or attained only primary level of education.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY