ANIE is part of an Erasmus Mundus project christened IDEA project i.e. Disseminate Exchange and Act. This is within Action 3 of Eramus Mundus. ANIE will play an important role in the project component on External Cooperation. This will be mainly to do publicity and bring ideas and experiences of African institutions to the project. Mr. James Otieno Jowi represented ANIE in the first meeting of the project with took place at Ghent University, Belgium on 23rd November 2011. The project mainly brings together coordinators of Erasmus Mundus projects to share experiences within their projects and creates possibilities for new collaborations. The workshop was officially opened by the Rector of University of Ghent Dr. Paul Van Cauwenberger who welcomed participants to the workshop emphasizing that this was a novel opportunity for sharing experiences, discussing the attractiveness of Europe's higher education and how it could contribute to the development of higher education in third world countries.

Prof. Boaz Erez of Bordeaux University, France is the coordinator of the project. He underscored the role of the project in bringing together the Erasmus community which presented even more possibilities. There were presentations of different projects and insightful discussion sessions. Most projects decried the low number of African applicants for the scholarships. During the workshop, Mr. Jowi presented a paper on how Africa perceived the Erasmus Mundus program. This project, which ends in 2014, also gives more publicity for ANIE in the participating institutions.