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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

The project has been a key component of the University overall international policies. Its paramount targets were the student and staff mobility, and a wider participation in international cooperation projects, thus in compliance with the guidelines of the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014-2020. Nevertheless these objectives were driven by three more general aims: improving the University course catalogue quality; enhancing personal and educational enrichment for students enrolled in the University’s (degree programs); triggering the University’s internationalization policy, as a process of strengthening the importance of the University of Tuscia, not only on the international academic market but also in the regional context of the European Higher Education Area. Several initiatives were put into action in order to promote student and staff mobility, and increase the participation in international cooperation projects. The services for incoming students have been strengthened, outgoing students can count on a consistent administrative support, the information about the Erasmus program have been improved, the mobility culture as personal enhancement has been promoted in the University degree programs. All the University's governing bodies have been involved in this process, together with the administrative services – pivoted by the Mobility and International Cooperation Office - and the departments. The achieved results are overall evaluated in a very positive way. The University student mobility is a of a well-established phenomenon, well-integrated into the curriculum of the various degree programs, supported by the increase in international agreements. By the comparing with foreign experience it contributes to improve the quality of education. It encourages the building of a genuine European culture in the student and professor community at the University of Tuscia, promoting the understanding of the unity and pluralism dynamics within the European education area and the integration process. It supports the University internationalization, enhancing the building up of education path of joined programs with foreign universities, promoting international research and forcing to accompany graduates into a wider job market than the national one. If outcomes are positively evaluated, however, it is necessary to further improve the mobility of outgoing students and reverse the decrease in the number of incoming students. From this point of view, the project highlighted the corrections to be made. Three lines of action have been identified and will be developed in the academic year 2015-2016: a stronger expansion of services offered to incoming students; the exploitation of the geographical potentiality of Viterbo location, from where important destinations such as Rome, Florence and Siena can be easily reached; the capacity of the degree programs to attract Erasmus incoming students will be strengthened and Italian students outbound mobility will be promoted.

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