Virtual mobility: A Higher Education Challenge in Europe 2020

Education and Training 2020, the new strategic framework for the European cooperation in the education and training field, highlights the need to boost transnational mobility with educational purposes, after having been proved to have a positive influence on university education and on the European youth access to the labour market. In this context, virtual mobility is key, complementing physical mobility and based on the growing chances of the ICT, and therefore it will be one of the upcoming challenges in the virtual educational possibilities at the Spanish universities. In this paper, we focus on the advantages of using the electronic version of the European Portfolio-e-PEL-as a methodological tool which enables the development of general competences-such as lifelong learning, self-evaluation or ICT application-encouraging motivation and international mobility. At the same time, we present an example of an activity in which the learning of both ICT and second language competencesis integrated, and which confirms e-PEL as a necessary tool in university education.