CROSS COUNTRY SYNTHESIS ON SURVEY

Deliverable 2.6

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Now available, the final report produced by the researchers in charge of the Work-Package 2 "Mental maps of students".

Volume 1: Executive summary - Main results - Table of content - List of figures - Appendix

In order to avoid repetitions, we will focus the conclusion of the report on a benchmarking of our results with three previous studies realized between 2004 and 2009 on the external image of the European Union (EU) from three different points of view.
The first one made by Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) is about the EU attractiveness for foreign students of six target countries (2004).
The second one prepared by the Garnet project is about the external image of the EU combining individual, media and institutional visions (2007-2009).
The third one made in ESPON project 3.4.1. focuses on the place of Europe in the world according to European researchers and policy makers (2007)

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Volume 2: Introduction 

This first part of the report aims to present the general objectives of the survey conducted in the WP2 (mental maps of students) and the methods implemented to full these objectives. It provides a general presentation of the main hypothesis in link with the general questions asked to the students (part A of the questionnaire). The mains trends observed in the sample are then summarized in order to be used as a general reference in the analysis of the other parts analysis (question A 11 and part B and D). Indeed, the structure of the sample allows identifying different experiences and visions of the world, according to the students' education level, their gender, spatial mobility and socio-economic background (...)

Volume 3: First Part - Variations of belonging feelings levels 

This section of the report presents the analysis of the results obtained. Firstly, the variation in the general results for the whole sample is presented. Then the geographical variations of the scale of belonging are analysed in details at the levels of countries and places of survey. Once this spatial dimension is controlled, it is possible to examine the individual factors like gender, eld of study, income. . . that hidden behind the geographical variation. Finally we explore the relation between the scale of belonging declared and the world perception through the analysis of the number of world regions drawn (...) 

Volume 4: Second Part - Cities and countries' knowledge and attractiveness 

Individual factors related to gender, field of education or level of income should finally not be neglected, even if they are difficult to capture. Mental maps are obviously strongly related to national visions, induced by ideology, education or media. But we have found some insights of transnational common attitudes related for example to individual criteria. It means that if the EU tries to attract students from abroad, it should take into consideration not only the bilateral relations with external countries, but also the social and economic specicities of potential migrants. Women are more attracted by France, Italy or UK than by Japan, Germany or the USA. Germany is more attractive for Engineer than for social scientists (...)

Volume 5: Third Part - Europe seen by surveyed students (sub-sections 5.1 and 5.2)

The aim of the EuroBroadMap survey was to catch non European points of view on Europe. However the last part of the questionnaire introduces some specific questions on Europe. The first one (question D1) was based on an enlarged map of Europe where the students were asked to drawn the limits of Europe. The first part of this report presents the implementation of the survey and the methods used to analyse the mental maps gathered. Then, a second part presents the results. It shows that students share a consensual but fuzzy mental representation of Europe...

 

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The stereotype of Europe as a traditional historical and cultural museum more interesting for tourism or leisure than for professional activity or social innovation (as compared to the USA or Australia) was nally pointed by ACA study (...) The results of our survey are generally in line with this analysis conclusion (...)