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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: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Ovidius University of Constanta, the largest multidisciplinary university in South-East of Romania, with 16 faculties and over 80 fields of study in all three higher education cycles, has a long tradition in realizing mobility for students, academic and non-academic staff, being beneficiary of European funds for education in the frame of Socrates, LLP Erasmus and Erasmus Plus programs.
This Erasmus Plus project represented for university a qualitative progress in organizing the mobility and it was developed during the process of the Ovidius University internationalization strategy creation and, starting with 2015, the implementation of this strategy.
The efforts of the Erasmus Office to renew the bilateral agreements for the Erasmus Plus program and to identify new partners from participating countries were part of the implementation process of this project, resulting in a total of 250 partnerships.
The project had several quantitative and qualitative objectives, and by achieving them Ovidius University of Constanta realized all types of mobility available in the frame of the Erasmus Plus program, with the best results for the participants.
The qualitative objectives of the project were: the diversification of the mobility types organized by Ovidius University of Constanta for the students enrolled in all three study cycles (because until the time this project was implemented in the university there was no placement mobility), helping the students with disadvantaged background to take the opportunity to study in one of the universities from the participating countries, stimulating the students of Ovidius University of Constanta to access a study or a placement Erasmus mobility, increasing the interest of the staff of the university to access a teaching or a training Erasmus mobility.
The quantitative objectives of the project were: realizing 60 mobility for study with a total duration of 300 months, realizing for the first time a number of 5 placement mobility with a total duration of 15 months, realizing 7 teaching mobility with a total duration of 35 days and a number of 10 training mobility both for academic and administrative staff, with a total duration of 50 days.
Before the start of the project and during its implementation several activities were taken to promote the opportunities offered by the Erasmus Plus Program both for the students and for the staff of Ovidius University of Constanta. Four selection processes were organized for the allocation of grants for the Erasmus Plus mobility. The total number of participants to these four competitions was 100 students and 61 staff of Ovidius University of Constanta, the final number of participants being 47 students for study mobility (37 females and 10 males, from which 15 were with disadvantaged background), 8 students for placement mobility (6 females and 2 males), 9 academic staff for teaching mobility (6 females and 3 males) and 13 academic and non-academic staff for training mobility (12 females and 1 male).
The quantitative objectives of the project were achieved in a percentage of 93% referring to the total number of realized mobility (77 compared to 82 expected), but referring to the duration of the mobility the result exceeded by 15% the expected indicator (315/264 months) for the study mobility and by 35% the one for the teaching and training mobility (115/85 days).
The qualitative objectives of the project were successfully achieved by the university: for the first time in the history of organizing mobility at Ovidius University of Constanta the students had the possibility to access a placement mobility; our university managed to support several students with disadvantaged background; we increased the visibility of the Erasmus Plus Program and the activity of the Erasmus Plus Office in the academic community and also the interest of the students for this program.