The University of South Wales is strategically committed to enhancing its reputation globally and contributing to the expansion of internal education opportunities. The University aims to be ?locally rooted, globally connected? with multi-campus, multi-city and multi-country activity in its delivery of learning to students. As part of this commitment the University sees the Erasmus+ programme as a key tool in maximising meaningful engagement in EU mobility and wider European funded Programmes. University staff are actively encouraged to increase international partnerships by establishing new academic relationships with global organisations, engaging in open innovation to the benefit of our staff, students and key stakeholders. Key objectives for the Erasmus+ KA1 project include; ? Build on successful partnerships and projects developed during the 2007 ? 2013 Programme, extending the scope of collaboration, while focusing closely on the quality, reciprocity and sustainability of all mobility and collaborative activity ? Promote mobility (study and training) opportunities to all staff and students ? Continue to encourage the growth of staff and teacher mobility as a vehicle for professional development, sharing best practice, further collaborative working, including joint curriculum development, research and innovation, and possible commercial activity ? Further strengthen guidance support for incoming/outgoing mobility participants ? focus on visibility of opportunity, improved language provision, and pastoral care. ? Work with colleagues to integrate principles of mobility and internationalisation into all aspects of academic offer and student experience ? Encourage staff to develop experience of participation in EU / non-EU cooperation projects. In 2014/15, 15 students from USW undertook Erasmus+ study placements across Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Austria, Noway, Spain, and Italy. Subjects studied included Fashion Design, Psychology, Documentary Film and TV, Nursing, Photography and Music. One third of our outgoing students were identified as being eligible for the Erasmus+ disadvantaged student supplementary grant. Staff also took part in 3 staff teaching visits and one staff training placement. The teaching visits included a Fashion Design lecturer teaching at a partner university in Finland whilst looking at further opportunities for partnership working and student mobility. A nursing academic also taught a number of students at a German partner HEI where two USW were studying. A senior lecturer from USW's International Centre for Policing and Security has been working closely with another partner University in Germany where he taught their students whilst looking at further partnership opportunities. Finally, a work placement coordinator from USW's faculty of Business and Society visited a Belgian partner on a staff training visit to look at how they could work closer together to offer potential work placement opportunites for USW's Youth and Community Studies students. A number of reciprocal staff visits have been planned since the visits.