What is the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)?
Blended Intensive Programmes (BIPs) are short and intensive educational programmes that use innovative teaching and learning methods, including online collaboration.
BIPs aim to reach students from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds, and from all fields of study and educational levels, by combining physical mobility with online education in a new and more flexible mobility format.
These programmes allow higher education institutions to jointly develop education, teaching, and learning programmes for staff and students in groups. They also enable the use of innovative and virtual tools.

Objectives of BIPs:
Developing international and interdisciplinary curricula
Developing innovative teaching and learning methods
Online/virtual collaboration
Research-based learning
Including individuals and programmes that have limited or no access to traditional forms of mobility

Properties of BIPs:
BIPs should add value compared to the courses and training currently offered by higher education institutions.
They should encourage interdisciplinary and international learning and teaching, benefiting from special learning/teaching conditions that cannot be provided by a single higher education institution.
They should ensure transnational participation.
They should provide a full-time workload for participants.
For academic staff, the programme should offer opportunities for exchanging views on new curriculum approaches, as well as the chance to test innovative teaching methods that could be part of new integrated courses/curricula within an international classroom setting.