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

The world is becoming an open space for exchanging knowledge, travelling, studying, learning about other countries and cultures. All Higher Education Institutions must evaluate the advantages of such world bravely and be open to nations, cultures and new approaches. SMK striving to become a multinational and multicultural community that respects human freedom, cherishes and nurtures democracy, tolerance and communication, creates ethical principles-based working environment, so, study internationalization is considered as one of the most prioritized strategic activities of SMK University of Applied Social Sciences that were defined in the our Internationalization Strategy of the SMK for 2013-2017 and Erasmus+ program is one of the main tools which helps to implement these prioritized strategic activities. Student mobility are changing the higher education system by turning it into intercultural and international system. One of the main objectives of this project is that a large number of SMK students would go to foreign countries in order to expand their horizons, improve language skills and gain different learning experience, but in the same time, in order to compensate local student loss, it is necessary to attract students from other countries which is the longer-term benefit. On the one hand, this would help to balance student flows, on the other hand, this would expand the international dimension of studies significantly. The other important objectives of the project are as follows: efficient organization of students', teachers and staff members mobility; expansion of international cooperation (arrangement of international projects and conferences); international acknowledgment of education provided by the SMK (internationalization of study programmes, representation of the SMK abroad). Integration of international/inter-cultural dimension into study programmes (development of new study programmes and modules in cooperation with partner institutions and common project activity). While implementing these directions, SMK reinforces international image of the institution and seeks the name of active and assuring study quality institution in European higher education space. Moreover, these activities contribute to enhancement of overall attractiveness and competitiveness of Lithuanian higher education. Therefore, the SMK chooses its partners strategically and emerges international branding and popularity in targeted markets. Based on the project there one long-term performance indicator that at least half of the projects and initiative in SMK are implemented in cooperation with international partners.

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