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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 31 mai 2016 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

Since 2007, the accredited Police Service bachelor degree (B.A. Polizeivollzugsdienst) has been offered by the Lower Saxony Police Academy and the course is the foundation of the careers of future police officers. In order to meet the changing and increasing criteria of the European education industry, as well as the challenges of the unification of Europe in the police sector, great value is placed on internationalising the Police Academy. Here, internationalisation is understood as a general task at all levels. Thus, the Police Academy’s internationalisation strategy considers the development and improvement of the international mobility of students, as well as teaching and administrative personnel at an individual and institutional level, as one of its main tasks. The Police Academy has participated in the Erasmus programme since 2010 in terms of Staff Mobility for teaching and training (ST) and Student Mobility for Traineeships (SMP; since 2014 for graduates). Since then, it has been possible to continually increase the amount of mobilities for personnel and students. Alone in 2014, five mobilities for SMP, as well as four for STA and STT respectively were realised. Services abroad are recognised by "Europass Mobility", which is recorded in the personal files. However, due to the specific modular structure, as well as legal police content and their lack of transferability, the Police Academy cannot yet participate in the Student Mobility for Studies (SMS). There is a great responsibility when selecting the partner and realising mobility - especially concerning SMP - since the participants also represent the Lower Saxony police whilst abroad. Police training institutions and the corresponding university faculties form the focus of our partnerships. To date, Erasmus + inter-institutional agreements have been concluded with institutions in Hungary, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Turkey. Additionally, the Police Academy also cooperates with other institutions that do not hold an Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE), but are important for the realisation of mobilities through the provision of SMP placements. Participant of STA include teaching staff (researchers and police trainers), in the fields law and legal issues, criminology, and practical police training. The average one-week teaching stay took place in Turkey, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Slovenia. A member of staff from the human resources department participated in STT at a partner institution in Hungary. A member of the central administration staff and a lecturer of criminology participated in an Erasmus+ staff week in Estonia. For the first time, a police trainer visited an institution in Spain with the aim of exchanging information on the structure of practical training. In 2014, the Police Academy enabled five graduates to complete a two-month graduate placement at a European police station. The students completed their degrees on 30 September 2014 and subsequently completed the two-month placement as a trained police officer. Following this, they commenced service at various police authorities in Lower Saxony. We shall continue to use this procedure in the future. The placements were organised centrally by the Department for International Relations and the mobility opportunities were intensively prepared and managed. Placements were possible in England, the Netherlands, Spain and Lithuania. Successful collaboration has strengthened these contacts and some institutions regularly offer placements. With regard to Erasmus+ incomings, at the Police Academy three mobilities were realised - two STT mobilities (Estonia, Lithuania) focussing on the administration of study opportunities and one STA mobility concentrating on subjects from criminology training (Lithuania). Furthermore, the Police Academy provided two-month placements for two SMP mobilities from Estonia at the Lower Saxony Police Force and supervised the participants. As a result of Erasmus+ activities during 2014, all participants were able to improve their knowledge of a foreign language and expand intercultural skills, as well as improving their skills in the police force through the acquisition of additional abilities and knowledge. In turn, the Police Academy was able to further expand its internationalisation in academic collaboration and further train university personnel through exchanging learning and teaching methods, as well as strengthening its role within the European education infrastructure. Guest lecturers enable the communication of European expert knowledge. This is especially important, as studying abroad is not yet possible.

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