Analysis of ERASMUS staff and student mobility network within a big European project

The academic mobility is one of key factors that enable the globalization of research and education. In this paper we study the network of ERASMUS staff and student exchange agreements between academic institutions involved in FETCH - a big European project oriented towards future education and training in computer science. The structure of the network was investigated relying on standard metrics and techniques of social network analysis. Obtained results indicate that the network is in a mature phase of the development in which none of the institutions has a critical role to the overall connectedness of the network. Additionally, the network has a clear core-periphery structure with an active core and mostly inactive periphery.