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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 project being reported within this document, was carried out as the 1st one realised within new structure of the Programme. However, all actions were undertaken as the continuation of SUT’s long term international cooperation held in previous editions of the Erasmus (LLP/Erasmus and SOCRATES/Erasmus) – our university has been active in the Programme since its beginning in Poland, i.e. since 1998/1999.
Main goals and objectives completed within the project include:
1. encouragement for and realisation of outgoing academic mobility period abroad by our students and staff members within all eligible components offered by the project: study, practical placements, teaching assignments, training and job shadowing. Despite difficulties faced due to implementation period of the new Erasmus+ Programme, we have succeeded to send abroad even more participants than originally planned in the contract. Furthermore, the range of faculties actively involved in mobility has been made extended
2. encouragement for and realisation of incoming academic mobility period by students and staff members from partner universities. We have succeeded to receive quite big number of students and staff members, coming also to faculties previously not very active in academic exchange.
3. the profile of mobility participants was similar to previous years. i.e. the biggest interest among students and staff was shown by our faculties offering regular full courses in English (computer science, electronics, automatics & robotics, civil engineering, chemical engineering, energy, mechanical engineering). It was noticed also that interest shown by representatives from faculties with more humanistic profile (Faculty of Architecture, College of Foreign Languages) was quite bigger than from those of typical engineering profile
4. completed mobilities in numbers: for outgoings: 143 SMS, 86 SMP, 53 STA, 18 STT; for incomings: 98 students (SMS and SMP) and several dozen of staff, mainly for STA flows
5. our academic offer available for international students was made bigger, mainly due to implementation of possibility to mix subjects offered by various faculties within LA proposal (kind of tailor-made study programme)
6. due to actions undertaken within the project and thanks to integration of the incoming participants and reintegration of outgoing students after their mobility period, strengthening of internationalisation within our university society was noticed, as well as general much more active participation in international activities and projects later on, including new partner institutions, regions, countries and continents
7. academic mobility opportunity became to be perceived as a kind of obvious chance being more and more exploited by student and staff
8. scope and range of integration between Polish and international students have raised
9. thanks to activities undertaken within project (multicultural society, integration activities, lectures given by foreign teachers, etc.), the local students and staff who - for different reasons - did not go abroad themselves, indirectly participated in academic mobility = the internationalisation at home (IaH) idea took place.
10. higher grants foreseen for students being in difficult material situation but willing to participate in the project gave them a real chance to apply and take the chance