The University of Akureyri has a broad network of partners in most EU-countries through the Erasmus+ HEI bilateral agreements. The university has established it speciality both abroad and domestically as being a university with a strong emphasis on Arctic issue. All faculties or schools have multiple Erasmus partnerships with active student and staff mobility. The field of studies include business administration, fisheries science, biotechnology, natural science, media studies, modern studies, law, psychology, sociology, teacher education, nursing, occupational therapy and health sciences. UANK has been actively involved in the Erasmus+ (Socrates) program since 1996 and through that time send out over 200 students and received around 600 students. The Erasmus+ programme has sharpen the universities focus on priorities such as quality and innovation in teaching, enhanced links with the job market, and better recognition of skills gained through mobility. The focus on modernization as it introduced by the commission is very much related to the emphasis that the university has made in it's general policy making. The focus is on increasing the quantity of higher education graduates at all levels. Participants of the project are coming from different faculties which shows diversity and accessibility of the program. Students are coming from the following faculty/department: Fisheries Science, Sociology, Business Administration, Teacher Education, Marine Science, Psychology. The age distribution of participants is wide and demonstrate the range of our students age that are enrolled (average age is around 30). Teachers participating are coming from the following faculty/department: Humanities, Sociology, Health Science, Business Administration, Law. Staff members for training are coming from: Quality Management, Rectors Office, IT, Financial Department. All exchanges were relevant to the internationalization of the university and were successfully executed with smooth cooperation with the partner institutions. Many of the partner institutions are the result of a long therm collaboration (such as the University of Tromsö, University of Genova, Riga Stradina University, University of Gothenburg, UHI, University of Nordland, University of Greenland, University of Helsinki, Lund University) but others are recent initiatives (University of Louvain and VIA University College). It is clear that the possibilities given by the Erasmus+ program is instrumental to the internationalization of the University of Akureyri and opens up for multiple collaboration initiatives which the university is grateful for.