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ACA is active in the following fields
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the enhancement of contact and cooperation between its members;
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the provision to its members of fast and up-to-date information on impor-
tant developments in the European Union institutions and in international
organisations;
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the provision, to third parties, of know how and expertise in the manage-
ment of international cooperation programmes and projects;
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research into and publications on internationalisation in education and
training;
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contract work for third parties.
ACA projects cover a wide spectrum and are too numerous to be listed here.
However, recent activities include the management of the European Union’s
Socrates, Leonardo and Youth programmes (in the framework of the ETAPE
consortium); a publication series, the 
ACA Papers on International Coopera-
tion in Education; studies for the European Union and the Nordic Council of
Ministers regarding the future of their education and training programmes;
surveys on recent developments in European higher education, on trans-
national lifelong learning and English-language-taught degrees; and the pro-
vision of a quality assurance service, the Internationalisation Quality Review
(IQR).
Academic Cooperation Association (ACA)
15, rue d’Egmontstraat
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel.:
++322 513 22 41
Fax:
++322 513 17 76
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web site: www.aca-secretariat.be
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Lemmens
The Virtual Challenge
to International Cooperation 
in Higher Education
Bernd Wächter (ed.)
Bernd Wächter (ed.)
ACA Papers on 
International Cooperation in Education
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