BAIM stands for Blended Academic International Mobility, an EU project being coordinated by IPP/Praxis. The aim of the project is to remodel international mobility and empower students’ employability by means of blended mobility.
One of the main purposes of higher education institutions is to provide students with the crucial tools to succeed in the global labour market. Professional life is nowadays heavily depending on mobility and demands professionals to excel in communication skills at an international, cross-cultural environment. However, soft skills, as well as international exposure, are rarely addressed by undergraduate courses. Blended mobility overcomes the typical barriers to mobility thus allowing students to take advantage of the benefits that mobilityand global exposure offer. However, regardless of its added value, blended mobility is hardly used and barely recognized as a serious alternative with great potential to overcome the common difficulties of international mobility.