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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

ISIA Firenze is a small Higher Education Institute, driven and funded entirely by the Italian State through MIUR, Italian Ministry of University and Research. Its institutional focus is teaching design methodology and design practice in its widest terms, ranging from product design to communication design. Admission is allowed only to 25 students per year per each course, resulting in about 175 students that are currently enrolled and attending courses. Due to its small dimensions, ISIA can benefit from a personalized approach, following strictly, mentoring and monitoring each of the students before, during and after his/her mobility activities. ISIA participation in the Erasmus Plus Programme is finalized to deepening its international relationships with transnational partners, both Higher Education Institutes and enterprises, creating new learning and professional opportunities for its students, and improving its approach to Design field through a fruitful exchange with partner Institutions and companies. In the 2014-15 academic year 18 students, more than 10% of the total number of enrolled students, benefited from a mobility period, and they all had full academic recognition. Half of them were enrolled in first cycle courses, half in second cycle. Twelve of them applied for a student mobility for studies, while just 6 mobilities were initially planned, and just 6 of them undertake a mobility for traineeship, where instead more than ten students were expected to apply. It was therefore necessary to perform a budget transfer between budget categories to be able to fund all student mobility activities. Results of mobility activities were satisfactory, in terms of quality and number of mobility flows. Individual impact on students was very significant, as usual, both for their personal and professional growth. Overall impact on Institute activities was mainly important for setting up new partnerships with higher education institutes based in extra-EU countries. The most important of those activities has been the setting up of a bilateral agreement with the Shenkar College of Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel, which is intended to increase both ISIA students and teachers knowledge about new technologies, opening them up its advanced research laboratories.
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