Context/Background of the Project Verona Academy of Fine Arts, which now has 519 students (of whom 14% are foreign, including 8 European citizens and 65 non-EU citizens), offers five 1st-cycle degree courses (Decoration, Painting and Sculpture, which are part of the Visual Arts department; Artistic Planning for Enterprise and Scenography-Stage Design, which are included in the Design and Applied Arts department), along with a five-year 2nd-cycle degree course in Restoration (with two learning objectives: Stone Materials and Fresco Painting – Painting on canvas and panel) and two biennial 2nd-cycle courses (“Atelier Direction” and “Art Direction and Product Design”). The Institution’s aim is to gradually involve all the courses in the student and staff mobility programme. During the first year of the Erasmus Plus Programme, the Academy, which started the student exchange programme in the academic year 2003/2004 in the framework of the Socrates/Erasmus Programme, carried on the inbound and outbound student and staff mobility projects thanks to renewals of agreements already in place in the Lifelong Learning Programme. Also in the context of internationalization, the Academy has been cooperating with other Higher Education Institutions in Verona for some time: firstly, with Verona University, which has prolonged the Framework Convention involving Verona Conservatory of Music, Vicenza Conservatory of Music and the Theological Faculty of Triveneto in order to promote course unit exchange and research projects; secondly, with Verona Conservatory of Music, offering the following Intensive Programmes: SACS – “Sound Art in City Spaces” in 2009-2011 (recognized as “an example of good practice to illustrate the European Year of Creativity and Innovation” in 2009) and IICS – “Interdisciplinary Involvement and Community Spaces” in 2012-2014, always in collaboration with the Academy of Music and Theatre in Gothenburg. Together with these two Institutions, the Academy has been developing the international project named “Verona risuona / Verona resounds”. This project is now in its tenth year and focuses on Sound Art in urban areas. In the city of Verona, the Academy also cooperates with the Verona Opera Academy institution, which involves Verona Conservatory, the National Academy of Dance, the “Silvio D’Amico” Academy of Dramatic Art and Florence ISIA as well. Finally, at the request of two Veronese Highschools, the Academy participates as an “associated partner” in the Strategic Partnership for School Education entitled “ArcheoSchool for the Future: a sustainability approach”. Objectives The most important objectives established in the Academy’s EPS and achieved in the first year of the Programme are: - signing new agreements with partner institutions in Portugal, Poland and the United Kingdom; - launching the student mobility for traineeships, in particular with a recent graduate in Germany, a target area for the Academy’s mobility programme; - involving students enrolled on 2nd-cycle degree courses in the student mobility for studies; - using EU grants for students from disadvantaged backgrounds; - inviting staff members from partner institutions to exhibit their work at the Academy Gallery. Number and Type/Profile of the Participants The number of outbound flows (10, including 6 students or recent graduates and 4 staff members) equals the number achieved in the academic year 2013/2014, a positive result for an Academy which had 470 enrolled students in the academic year 2014/2015 and which cannot benefit from State co-funding as it is not a State institution, but a legally authorized HEI, mainly funded by Verona Council. Students from both departments and both study cycles have been involved in the student mobility (SMS), as well as students who had already completed an Erasmus mobility in their previous study cycle. As mentioned above, a recent graduate has taken part in the student mobility for traineeships (SMP) for the first time. Lecturers from both departments have had a teaching assignment abroad (STA), while the staff mobility for training (STT) has benefited from an administrative assistant, who welcomes Erasmus students and issues Transcripts of Records and Diploma Supplements, and the Academy’s Erasmus Coordinator. Description of Undertaken Activities Besides the outbound and inbound student and staff mobility in the framework of previously signed agreements, there have been visiting professors from a Polish and an English Institute, which later signed an inter-institutional agreement with the Academy. In addition, three art exhibitions of works by artists who teach in partner institutions have been organised. Results and Impact Attained The success of the above mentioned exhibitions within the Academy and in the city will encourage the Institution to continue this activity in its gallery.