Student mobility as transition - a comparison of degree and credit mobile students from Luxembourg - FHSE

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Jan 2015
Duration in months:

36
Funding:

Horizon 2020, PhD Funding
Principal Investigator(s):

Birte NIENABER

About

The research focuses transitions of mobile students, taking into account both credit and degree students from Luxembourg. The study analyses academic related stay abroad as a transition on different levels, e.g. within the educational system as transition into higher education, within family/life course as transition into adulthood or as transition between different social networks. At the same time, the interplay of those different transitions is one of the dissertation’s central interestes. Theoretical lens is the life course perspective, realised in a mixed-methods design (semi-structured interviews and online survey). One of study’s core points is also the role of mobility/migration in the transitions mentioned and in the life course as whole. The PhD Project is linked to the Horizon 2020 project MOVE: http://www.move-project.eu/