Issues of Policy and Strategy for International Collaboration between European HEIs

This article investigates cross-institutional collaboration of European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from a policy perspective, using virtual mobility as a case study. In the framework of policy experimentation, two instruments to provide an evidence basis are examined: policy dialogues between high-level authorities, institutional policymakers and practitioners, and evaluation of local implementations of existing policies. We describe these instruments along with the results obtained, reflect on the methodology used, and we finally derive recommendations for the policy process.