ATHENS Programme
The ATHENS programme (Advanced Technology Higher Education Network/Socrates) is part of the European SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme and is increasingly successful every year. It is offered twice a year (March and November sessions) to students in colleges and universities in the SOCRATES/ERASMUS network.
The research objective is to give students from another institution the opportunity to experience another educational system by briefly attending high-level scientific courses. Insofar as possible, the students from the host institution also attend this course. This experience gives students the desire to subsequently effect a longer stay (especially post-graduate) in another institution, thereby encouraging exchanges between students of Europe’s major technological universities.
Each session includes an intensive scientific course and European scale activities. The course is validated by the home institution based on the result obtained on the knowledge test organised by the host institution according to its own assessment criteria. Each complete session is generally equal to 2 to 3 ECTS* credits. 164 courses were offered in 2009-2010.
* European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
