Towards the Creation of a New Space for Inter-Institutional Structural Cooperation

From Erasmus to Erasmus+

European Programmes for Higher Education have evolved from the Erasmus to the Erasmus+ Programmes in parallel with the growing influence of the European Commission in the definition of policies for tertiary education at European level. While in 1987 the Erasmus Programme funded purely mobility projects, the Programmes launched in the last 15 years have reserved a special place for multilateral initiatives. This article will first of all analyse the creation of this “new space for collaboration” created by the LLP. Secondly, it presents a case study of successful structural cooperation, the JOIMAN project case, focusing on the methodology applied rather than on the description of results. We conclude by presenting where this new space is still available within the ERASMUS+ Programme.