Macquarie University
Website: http://www.mq.edu.au
General Information
Macquarie University is located in Sydney in the heart of one of Australia's major high technology parks. Students currently number over 30,000 (including 10,455 students in postgraduate programmes).
Around 7,700 overseas students study on campus per annum (almost a quarter of the total student population), including approximately 620 students from European Union countries. The University has 250 exchange partners in 54 countries world-wide and this year over 320 students will study overseas in European Union countries.
  
EU-related activities
Macquarie University is joint leader of the IUEU Centre (with La Trobe University), with particular responsibility for promoting research networks.
Courses & Units
In 2006 a major Environmental Sustainability project was announced with the six IUEU members led by Macquarie, and three EU universities in England, Sweden and Austria. The project enables undergraduate students in environment, technology and business to spend a semester at an international partner university to study environmental sustainability.
Global Citizenship: European and Australian perspectives, brings together three Australian and four EU universities with expertise in globalisation studies, international relations, development studies and languages. The program involves an international student mobility program which examines aspects of global citizenship in the context of Europe’s transnational institutions and from Australia’s regional perspective.
In 2006 the Bachelor of International Studies (Europe) degree commences, which includes a language major and a funded semester in a European university;
Research
EU-related research at Macquarie University includes work by Marc Lombard on the economics and politics of the European Union and by Christina Slade on the regulation of media in the EU and changing notions of citizenship.
Other
Macquarie University has a unique reach into the diasporic communities which support and participate in its broad range of European languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek and Macedonian as well as Croatian, Russian and Ukranian.
Contact
Dr Blanche Menadier
Deputy Director, IUEU Centre
Phone: +61-2-9850-7915
Fax: +61-2-9850-6900
Email: macquarie@iueu.edu.au
Address:
Building W6A, Room 325, Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109,
Australia
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