Higher education student and staff mobility projec..
Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
ISPGaya is a small, privately held, polytechnic institute, with a strong local implementation. We teach CTSP (EQF Level 5 degrees) and Undergraduate degrees (EQF Level 6 degrees) in diversified scientific areas (from engineering to tourism, for example). Our Erasmus+ project was the main tool intended to promote the internationalization of ISPGaya and of its faculty. In fact, we wanted to increase the participation of teachers and staff in projects that involve other European institutions (partner institutions) and involve students in such efforts. Additionally, promotion of student mobility was also a objective that we set at the beginning.
The participation of teachers and staff, although restricted to three members of our staff, exceeded our expectations. We were involved in joint initiatives in Poland, Lithuania, Belgium and Ireland. These initiatives did increment the links between ISPGaya and our international partners and some of them did involve students from ISPGaya. The three participants are all full time teachers at ISPGaya, with other responsibilities besides teaching. The profile adjusts to our designated objective for teacher and staff mobility. Since the number of grants is scarce, we prefer to attribute the grants to full time teachers with managerial responsibilities. The three participants carried out a total of seven mobilities in our partner institutions.
The participation of students was disappointing. No students applied for mobilities in the period of the project despite efforts in divulgating the grants available. Additional efforts have to be carried out in the future to promote student mobility.
The teaching activities, that occurred in Lodz, Siauliai, Vilnius and Antwerp were all part of international events promoted by the partner institutions. The staff mobility programs were intended to exchange experiences and promote mobility of students and staff between the institutions involved. Both types of mobilities were helpful in the development of the partnerships and the possibility of joint projects.
Therefore, and despite the fact of absence of student mobility, the overall perspective is that the links that were developed with our partner institutions might be helpful in the future for participation in other types of projects.
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