Students in higher education are becoming more mobile, studying in more than one institution. The
aim of this article is to study the regulatory basis and analyze the mechanisms of academic mobility
in Germany as a global education and innovation centre. We used an axiological approach, which
allowed us to consider academic mobility as a socially and personally valuable concept, together with
a systematic approach, which helped us to study a complex of mechanisms of students’ academic
mobility provision. The article presents three main levels of the regulatory basis (federal, regional
and institutional) and two levels of the mobility realization mechanisms in Germany (federal and
institutional). At the federal level institutions are governed by basic law, the law on higher education,
the Federal Assistance Act and internationalization strategy. The second level concerns the activity
of Ministerial Conference on Education and Culture, the Rectors’ Conference and Science Council.
The institutional level is illustrated through the example of Munich University. The article will
be of interest to researchers studying the problems of higher education, foreign and comparative
pedagogics and integration processes in the sphere of higher education. The results may also be used
in teaching pedagogics, comparative pedagogics and foreign pedagogics. The recommendations
based on German experience of academic mobility development may be transferable to Russian
universities.