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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
In academic year 2014/15 Gdansk University of Technology was implementing a 24-month agreement. Within the framework of the agreement, the university was exchanging students for studying, students for traineeships, staff for teaching and staff for training. The university was granted 1 158 963 euro to complete these tasks.
Gdansk University of Technology participated in the Erasmus programme for the first time in the academic year 1998/99, as soon as Polish universities were given such a possibility. Therefore, the programme is very well integrated into the university’s structures and its popularity keeps its high level, and is actually still growing.
Due to the long-lasting participation in the project, Gdansk University of Technology fully appreciates benefits resulting from student and staff mobility. Aiming at university’s internationalization, creating international campus and giving students possibility of going through international experience, the university actively supports mobility programmes and perceives them as a great measure to achieve the above mentioned goals.
In the academic year 2014/15, following the stipulations of the agreement between the National Agency of the Erasmus+ Programme and Gdansk University of Technology, the university should have carried out mobility of 275 students for studies, 85 students for traineeships, 96 staff members for teaching and 56 staff members for training.
Due to efforts of the university, that sets internationalization as one of its strategic goals, the mobility number was raised by 27, among which 11 students participated in mobility for studies and 16 students - for traineeships.
Gdansk University of Technology spares no effort to comply with the rules of equal rights and non-discrimination. To this end, all the students and staff members are being encouraged to participate in mobility, regardless their sex, nationality, economic conditions, etc. In the academic year 2014/15, among others, 33 students from disadvantaged backgrounds and 3 students with special needs participated in the mobility programme.
The university was also encouraging potential beneficiaries to participate in mobility as recent graduates, what resulted in 12 mobilities of this type.
Great importance is given to staff mobility. Academic teachers participating in mobility for teaching not only share their knowledge with partner institutions’ students, but also, thanks to relations with their colleagues at partner universities, enhance their competences and establish new contacts.
Staff members participating in mobility for training get a chance to gain new competences, which expand their working skills and enable them to work in international environment, what is very important considering planned university’s development, aiming at broadening its international dimension.
Recapitulating the above mentioned, the project is directly linked with the university’s strategy and its results are visible among university’s students and staff.
Students, who participated in the mobility are enhancing their position at the labour market. They not only possess knowledge, that is unique amongst other candidates, but also gain many soft skills, they become more open and learn how to work effectively in a team. They also gain broader practical knowledge regarding use of foreign languages.
International students spending their mobility period at the university and students who return after their mobility period are significantly influencing the campus life. Due to their presence, the academic society becomes more dynamic and open to other cultures. They enable students, who for various reason cannot participate in the mobility themselves, to relate to the process of internalization and to adapt to living in a multicultural society.
Academic teachers who participated in mobility by gaining new competences enhance the quality of their teaching activities, they are also better prepared to teach international groups, number of which constantly grows at Gdansk University of Technology.
By participating in staff mobility for training, beneficiaries not only gain valuable knowledge, but upon return, they are better prepared to cooperate with international partners, international academic teachers and students.