This project is part of our internationalisation strategy to increase the number of outgoing students and staff and incoming students and staff and to internationalise at home. The main objectives of the project include: 1. To provide our students with an international experience that will open their educational, individual and professional horizons and opportunities and raise their awareness to the importance of experiencing new cultures and educational approaches. 2. To enable our staff to teach and/or train abroad and expand their networks, thus encouraging their engaging in projects with international partners. 3. To enhance the future professional opportunities of both students and staff. 4. To attract international students and staff to our university, as this is an excellent form to internationalise at home in an inexpensive manner, and to expose our community to different nationalities, cultures, ways of thinking and educational approaches. 5. To promote multiculturalism and inclusion, which are values embedded in our institutional and academic culture. 6. To strengthen our relationship with partner institutions and encourage joint projects. 7. To raise awareness of our university internationally and the profile of Portugal at large. With regard to number and profile of participants, the number of incoming staff ? 17 (12 in the previous year) and students - 37 (34 in the previous year) increased compared with previous years, the same happening with the growing number of requests from universities to become our partners. This means that previous incoming students have passed on a good image of our institution and experience. The number of outgoing SMS students (seven, when ten SMS grants had been allocated) was slightly disappointing since the number of applicants seemed to indicate otherwise. We believe that one of the reasons was unforeseen financial difficulties. One student withdrew just a few days after arriving to the host university, due to inability to adapt to his new situation. For the first time, one of our many African students completed an Erasmus mobility abroad, something we had been encouraging for years, and one mature trainee. The fact that there were fewer SMS students than expected enabled increasing the number of students who benefitted from a training experience abroad (3, instead of one allocated grant). The number of lecturers (4, against only two allocated grants) who participated in the project exceeded expectations. It involved four lecturers from three departments, with Law participating for the first time with two members of staff lecturing at a new partner university. Three new partner universities welcomed 3 of our SMS students. Our university has more female students than male, so female students outnumbered male students. For the first time we had a mature graduate (32 years of age) participating in the programme. Besides the day-to-day activities inherent to the programme, in order to disseminate it and raise our students? awareness of it, we established a buddy system that proved extremely successful among our students and incoming students. It attracted students from several degrees, both genders and different nationalities. The positive results are reflected in the 2015-16 Project as 3 current SMS students were buddies in the 2014 project. In order to help our incoming students integrate and follow classes better, we provided Portuguese language classes over the two semesters, with ECTS allocation. The vast majority learned Portuguese and gained a certificate at the end of the study period. We encouraged our second semester outgoing students to fill in the OLS 1st and 2nd self-assessments and to take the online course. The project was disseminated in our website (list of outgoing students for studying, training and staff and list of incoming students and staff), prominently, on our information screens and boards and in class. One of the long term benefits is that the numbers of incoming students for the 2015-16 academic year made it possible to offer classes in English on the master degree in Business, making it our second master programme to be taught in English (Architecture has been offering tuition in English for some years). In overall terms the results were extremely positive as we had 15 mobilities (14 allocated) and more incomings students. The forthcoming international doctorate in International Relations stems from fruitful cooperation initiated as Erasmus+ projects with two other partner universities. This is just one of the ongoing projects involving our architecture, law, communication sciences and international relations departments with their Erasmus counterparts. We were able to offer Portuguese language courses to all incoming students for free, and most gained an A1 or A2 certificate. We believe that this will have a medium to long term impact and positively influence at international level.