The overarching objective of the research is to investigate what motivates African students to travel in other countries through academic mobility schemes and which opportunities they could use. Moreover, the research has additionally the following objectives: a. to understand how educational mobility schemes, such as Erasmus+, are contributing to the improvement of the African students’ education and if the knowledge gained through these opportunities has been applied back in their home countries and b. to do a historical overview on educational tourism and compare the current and past motivations of the “educational tourists”. The research question which will be answered through the study is the following: To what extend can academic mobility schemes be a motivation for African students to travel in other countries?
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