ASEAN International Mobility for Students (AIMS) Programme is the continuation of the Malaysia-Indonesia-Thailand (M-I-T) Student Mobility Programme following its successful pilot phase.
In 2010, the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and SEAMEO RIHED launched a multi-lateral collaborative programme to promote student mobility in the Southeast Asian region. With strong support and contributions from the governments of the three participating countries, the pilot project was successfully implemented, and the expansion phase began in 2012 with the participation of Vietnam under a new programme name–AIMS. It has been ambitiously agreed as a short-term goal among the participating member countries that by 2015 at least 500 students will be mobilised across the region,with expanding fields as well as membership.
To SEAMEO RIHED, student mobility has always been one of the key strategic elements of cooperation leading to the development of a regional common space in higher education in Southeast Asia. SEAMEO RIHED’s 4th Five-Year Development Plan puts forth the cultivation of globalized human resources as one of the five key objective areas.