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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
The National School of Higher Studies in Landscape and Architecture (ENSNP)’s aim is to train landscape architects with broad knowledge, skills and behaviors, appropriate to their own domain of expertise. The school has a five-year study programme with courses that include humanities and social sciences, communication, management, graphic communication, space representation and landscape project.
The academic year 2014-2015 has been a turning point for the ENSNP, since it was integrated in January 2015, into the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Centre Val de Loire (INSA Centre Val de Loire) as a landscape architecture department called Département Ecole de la Nature et du Paysage (later referred as ENP department). It was also a pivotal period since the school worked on the implementation of the National Landscape Architecture Diploma (Diplôme National de Paysage later referred as DEP).
During the academic year 2014-2015, the management team wished to develop the visibility of each institution on an international scale by strengthening the existing bilateral agreements but also by establishing new contacts to create bilateral agreements in order to diversify its mobility opportunities. Hence, staff mobility for teaching and for training are encouraged in order to strengthen the Institute’s partnerships. Student and staff mobilities are at the ENP department a priority and are considered as tools to strengthen international cooperation.
The study programme at the ENP department is professionally and internationally oriented. Therefore, student mobility is essential. Every year, students have to do a traineeship of variable duration, in a professional environment and in year 5, an end-of-study work of 1250 hours. About eighty traineeships abroad are done every year and about 50% are done in Europe. In 2014-2015, seven students benefited from an Erasmus traineeship grant. Students are encouraged to do a traineeship from their first year in order to share on different landscaping practices, to reach educational excellence but also to improve their English level. Indeed, to obtain their landscape architecture diploma they have to obtain a 6.0 score at the IELTS.
The former ENSNP and the ENP department have been communicating on the Erasmus + program in order to develop incoming and outgoing mobilities for studies. In 2014-2015, the former ENSNP welcomed five Erasmus students and three of its students left for an Erasmus student mobility for studies. To promote mobility, the International Relations Office supports incoming and outgoing students in their mobility procedures. All mobilities have received a full academic recognition through the validation of ECTS credits obtained in the Host institution.
Mobilities have positively impacted the whole ENP department and encouraged the Institute’s internationalization. Students and staff have been able to develop their linguistic, cultural and academic skills by exploring different points of views in their own domain of expertise. Moreover, thanks to the mobility in Norway of one of our university lecturers, we have been able to initiate a negotiation process with a new potential partner. The number of mobility opportunities has been broadened by the integration into the INSA Centre Val de Loire and therefore its visibility has increased on an international scale.
The International Relations Office visibility also improved thanks to the integration into the INSA Centre Val de Loire through dedicated international relations web pages, information materials such as handbooks for incoming and outgoing students, international week, dedicated software etc.
In the past few years, the International Relations Office has noticed a growing enthusiasm for Erasmus mobilities encouraged by the feedback from students who benefited from the programme
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