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As part of the dissemination activities of LE:NOTRE+PLUS, the detailed information on landscape architecture teaching at European universities which has been collected in the course of the Thematic Network Project is now to be made available to students and ERASMUS Coordinators as an aid to planning student (and indeed staff) mobility within, but also beyond the context of the ERASMUS Programme.
As far as the LE:NOTRE Project is concerned, this will involve the creation of a new web site area dedicated to this function to provide the necessary information in a clear and compact form. This will display relevant parts of the course unit information which has already been made available by the Network member universities, selected according to whether the university in question recommends the course unit as being appropriate (for whatever reason - e.g. capacity, language, timing, pre-requisites etc.) for being taken by Exchange students.
For the web site development, as well as building the new site itself, this will involve adding some extra fields to the existing course unit database to indicate whether the course in question is recommended for exchange students and, more importantly exactly when (in which semester, term, study period etc.) it is offered during the coming academic year. To supplement this information it will also be necessary to develop a a consistent, comparable and easily understandable way of displaying the structure of the academic year at all Network member universities, something which has so far not been undertaken in LE:NOTRE.
The new web pages of the universities and departments in question will also include the opportunity to provide more general information specially designed for incoming exchange students.
The question always asked in this context relates to the undeniable issue of ensuring that the information made available is kept up to date. Given the bottom-up nature of the LE:NOTRE Project (i.e. the fact that there is no central staff to collect, update and input this information) and the inevitable time limitation on EU funding, there can only be one answer to this question: individual Network members will have to keep the information up to date themselves. How can this be ensured? Here too, the answer to this question is simple: the relevant course unit information made available for prospective exchange students will also include data on when it was last updated. This should make it as transparent as possible whether the information displayed is current or not. In this way it is hoped that the system will 'police itself' as it should rapidly become clear which universities are taking the trouble to make current course information available and which ones apparently have no interest in providing user-friendly information on their programmes for prospective exchange students.