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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 ERASMUS+ Mobility Program highly contributes to realize the goals set in Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014-2020, especially to the number one priority of strengthening internationalization and expanding international acknowledgement of our university. As the reported figures confirm, we maximally use the available budget for our students travelling abroad, with a high number of students interested in the program continuously. If it was possible we would apply for complementary sources, but it still could not cover all of our students’ needs. Also, as BME is more and more acknowledged among its international ERASMUS partners, we have a great number of contracted relations, due to which the number of incoming students exceeds those of the ones travelling. We would like to highlight the importance of the internship opportunity, through which the students get enterprise experience and in which many of them are interested in. The number of applicants is double of the appointed number of people in the available funds. This coincides with our university’s priority, namely that the growth of teaching staff and student mobility is the most important element of BME’s international strategy. To reach our goals, apart from financial sources, we needed some structural changes. During the summer of 2013 the organizational and operational rules of the Central Academic Office were changed, through which the tasks regarding international activities were rearranged. Incoming students and their records are treated by the international group of CAO. The former Erasmus and Exchange Office was integrated into the International and Scientific Section and the Department of Educational Administration. The main activity is organizing and managing student and staff mobility based on both Erasmus and other bilateral agreements. Our tasks also include dealing with the admission of incoming students in term abroad programs, keeping the records of Erasmus bilateral agreements and drawing up new contracts. After the transitional period of the academic year 2012/2013 at the end of 2013/2014, all of our university’s bilateral Erasmus agreements expired. In 2014/2015 the extension of contracts continued and new ones were signed. These actions were needed as new scientific fields with old partners and also various new partners appeared. BME has a wide range of international relations since its foundation. During the 2008-2015 rector’s cycle, our international relations system and associational memberships were examined in consideration of efficiency, and were diminished to the optimal level. The developing international relations system of BME based on the ERASMUS network brings the possibility of lifting these relations to a higher level, in the direction of common training and double degrees, also efficient applications in Horizon 2020 regarding research and development. The detailed description of the ERASMUS MUNDUS winning tenders can be found in the uploaded document. In the first term of Erasmus+ credit mobility, BME is in the mid-range of the Hungarian higher education with the approximately 83,000 Euro support for the winner project with Serbia as a partner country. In the past few years international relations became more important due to various reasons. Some developments are highlighted in the following points, mainly the ones connected to educational issues and student exchange programs: (i) Developing countries such as Brazil and Indonesia send a large number (about 100,000) of their students abroad every year. As BME is in the top 10 host institutions internationally with about 1000 Brazilian incoming students in total, our income from the Brazilian Study Abroad program sums up to 2 billion Hungarian Forints. (ii) At the leading technical universities of developed countries an obligatory task for getting a diploma is to have at least a semester of completed studies abroad. In English-speaking countries, study abroad programs are covered by the home institution. (iii) Various international and Hungarian grants such as Erasmus Mundus, Norway Grants, the future Erasmus+ and Campus Hungary are supporting study abroad programs through scholarships or paying tuitions. In the light of the previous points, one of BME’s most important medium-term institutional goal is to keep the best students for a whole academic cycle (BSc, MSc and PhD) and to raise the number of foreign students. This goal can be reached through the development of our university’s international competitiveness. The main elements of this are to ensure study abroad opportunities for BME students and to realize a high-level education for all self- or family financed and international program-participant incoming students.

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