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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 

When we submitted our application for the ECHE 2014 ? 2020 the University of Dundee (UoD) was, and continues to be, fully committed to the principles of this Charter. This commitment was founded on the fact that we had been successfully involved with Erasmus since 1987 and have valued all of the benefits that it brought to our institution and to the programme participants and we wished to move forward under the new auspices of Erasmus+. Our objectives for the project were to fulfil the quantitative commitments laid out in our grant agreement and the qualitative commitments underpinned by the principles and provisions laid out in the ECHE, the Erasmus+ Programme Guide, our grant agreement and our institutional Erasmus+ Policy Statement. We also aimed to promote and encourage as much participant uptake as possible across mobility types. The activities undertaken by participants were student study and traineeship mobility and staff teaching and training mobility. Overall, we had 64 outbound participants. The majority of these, 39, undertook student study mobility (6 of which were students from disadvantaged backgrounds), 19 undertook student traineeship mobility, 5 staff teaching mobility and 1 staff training mobility. We had a total of 106 inbound student study mobilities and 7 inbound staff mobilities. The results of our project have been, in general terms, very good. A high percentage of our outbound students and staff were satisfied or very satisfied with their mobility experience and this is evidence that we have been largely successful with the implementation of Erasmus+ provision and regulatory requirements at UoD. The impact that Erasmus mobility has had on our participating students has been abundant. To summarise, the majority of students feel that they have learned better how to plan and organise themselves; see the value of different cultures; improve their analytical skills; adapt and act in new situations; co-operate with people from other cultures; be more confident and convinced of their abilities; be more open minded and curious about challenges and know better their skills and weaknesses. This means that Erasmus has, without a doubt, been highly beneficial for them and increased their academic, personal and professional abilities by adding to their skill set, enhancing their CVs and increasing their employability as graduates. Our staff participants have agreed 100% that they have learned from good practices abroad; increased their job satisfaction; reinforced or extended their professional networks and reinforced co-operation with the partner institutions. It is the positive experience of our students and staff and the benefits they have gained that is an overriding factor to us achieving further success with Erasmus+ at UoD. This has a positive impact on the promotion/reputation of Erasmus+ within our institution and impacts on our current students/staff who are interested, to our potential applicants who wish to undertake mobility and for staff who wish to apply for employment here and value what the Erasmus opportunity could bring to their professional development and their area of expertise. Our inbound students and staff also had a very high percentage of satisfaction with their mobility experience in general. This is evidence that as an institution we provide a high quality of student and staff experience and fully integrate them within our institutional culture and Learning and Teaching environment. We recognise the presence of inbound students and staff as being a vital element in adding a sense of diversity and added value to our Learning and Teaching, and this impacts positively on the development and advancement of Erasmus within our institution. Longer term benefits of Erasmus at UoD are far reaching in terms of the UoD Transformation Vision and Internationalisation Strategy.

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