MODERN – European Platform Higher Education Modernisation – is a three-year EU- funded project which aims to provide a structured answer to the fragmentation in the supply of management support to HEIs, their leaders and managers.

Under the leadership of ESMU (European Centre for the Strategic Management of Universities) MODERN is a consortium of 10 core and 26 associate partners joining forces in a Structural Network under the EU-funded Lifelong Learning Programme (ERASMUS) to respond to the Modernisation Agenda of the European Union and to the need to invest in people, to support future leaders and encourage the professionalisation of higher education management at all levels.

Among others, MODERN (www.highereducationmanagement.eu) is a web-based community: the European platform is intended as an interactive information and meeting point for HEM providers, experts, target group learners and interested stakeholders. Activities will include a survey on needs and demands for HEM programmes, five thematic conferences and peer learning activities.

EAIE is part of the project consortium:

• European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities (ESMU) – project leader
• European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
• Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE)
• Danube University Krems – University for Continuing Education (DUK)
• University of Twente – Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS)
• European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU)
• European Association for International Education (EAIE)
• University of Bath – International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM)
• Politecnico di Milano – Consortium for the innovation of firms and Public Administration management (MIP)
• Higher Education Development Association (Hedda)

More information can be found at http://www.highereducationmanagement.eu/