UCC educates teachers, social educators, physiotherapists, psycho motor therapists, textile & handicraft designers and sign language interpreters. They share conditions and needs with professionals throughout Europe. Thus, current and updated knowledge cannot be limited to national borders. The project has been essential in fulfilling UCC's ambition of being informed and informing international partners in developing new and relevant knowledge; hence improving the quality and relevance of HE. UCC has 4 strategic focus areas 1) Students with strong international and intercultural competencies 2) Staff with strong international and intercultural competencies 3) Attractive international courses and programs 4) Strong international Research and Development (R&D). In realizing these focus areas, UCC acknowledges staff and student mobility, strategic partnerships and networks and an increase in external international funding as key internationalization drivers. Mobility is one of the key internationalisation drivers and UCC is committed to removing obstacles that prevent the effective exercise of free movement. It does this by supporting the development of sufficient quality assurance and accreditation practices and by recognising qualifications. Mobility strengthens both academic and cultural internationalisation. UCC believes that mobility constitutes an educational arena equivalent to other modules and elements in the student degree programmes. Therefore, UCC is keen to secure optimal conditions to facilitate the student’s learning process when studying abroad; this includes assessment of international partners, information and supervision. In accordance with Danish Law, UCC's educations specify internationalization as a key competence to support and increase attainment levels. Student and staff exchange combined with internationalization activities at home are agreed upon in UCC's Strategy and Action Plans as internationalization drivers that promote attainment levels. Mobility grants for students are a key factor for fulfilling these goals. UCC also acknowledgse lecturers as central role models for internationalization. Thus, mobility grants for staff members are crucial as well. UCC aims to represent an internationally recognised study and research environment and to be one of the leading international profiles in Denmark within the context of welfare professions, including learning, health-oriented, pedagogical and aesthetic dimensions. In close collaboration with stakeholders, UCC strives to develop and enhance professional education and practice and contribute to new knowledge and welfare through internationally oriented educational programmes and research and development. Through strategic partnerships with high-quality higher education institutions based on mutual benefit and solidarity, UCC wishes to prepare students for an increasingly interdependent world; a world propelled to a large extent by technological and social innovations that transform and present challenges to higher education and welfare provision. Through the Erasmus programme UCC has been able to send: - 33 students abroad throughout Europe on Student Mobility for Studies - 48 students on Student Mobility for Traineeships - 29 academic staff on Teaching Mobility - 22 staff on Training mobility Especially our Teacher Education students have gone abroad on mobility for Studies and our Social Educators have been on Traineeships, as these possibilities fit into the structures of these educations. Students from all our educations have though been able to go abroad on either SMS or SMP. UCC aims at increasing the mobility, and as the new structure of Teacher Education and Social Education settles in hopefully more students will be able to go on SMS and SMP via the E+ programme. Finally, regarding student mobility we also see an interest in SMP for recent graduates. This is an opportunity under the Erasmus programme that we will focus on in the comming years. We will evaluate how students benefit from this opportunity compared to the administrative task attached to this mobility type - for students that are no longer enrolled at UCC. Concerning staff mobility we have seen an increasing interest which has resulted in over 40 staff mobilities. Especially STA demand has risen. The total increase in staff mobility can both be seen as a result of the UCC focus on internationalisation where the erasmus programme is essential. But the increase can also be a result of the change in the Erasmus programme, where the requirement for number of activity days now is two days compared to the previous five days (under LLP). This change in the programme gives more flexibility and better opportunity for staff to participate in the programme. For both student and staff mobility, we see that both existing and new partnerships has been used. In the the future we will continue to work on existing partnership as well as enter into new when found s