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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 

Participating in Erasmus+ programme is an important part in Óbuda University?s strategy of internationalisation. Mobility is considered to be a long-term investment, which can help not only the individuals? carriers but also the university as an entity in the field of internationalisation. Fulfilling an Erasmus+ project is a complex task, which is carried out by individuals? activities. Beyond the expectations defined by the European Commission, the frame of individual activities is defined by the corresponding systems of the sender and receiver institutions and the participants? attitude towards the project. Accordingly, several quantitative and qualitative expectations have to be fulfilled. The total number of mobility in the academic year 2013/14 was 316 participants and it has increased to a number of 423 the consecutive year (2014/15). The reason for this progress lies in the continuous improvement of processes in the field of internationalisation and the consequence, beside the growth in numbers, is the improvement of quality. The changes are enumerated by mobility groups in the following: Outgoing students for study purposes: 5% growth. This can be regarded as a consequence of establishing new contacts and including new study-fields, and the continuous advertisement of the program. The profile ratio has also been improving. By the academic year 2014/15 we finally managed to reach a 2:1 student ratio matching the ratio of students in studies of engineering to business studying at Óbuda University. Outgoing students for internships: The number of participants has more than doubled owing to contracts signed with agencies, which enabled sending bigger contingents on internships. Already this year several young graduates have participated in the program, yet we hope to further increase their number. The satisfaction of outgoing students is principally good. Their labour market position has been strengthened, their language skills and professional knowledge developed. They often take active part in promoting the program after their return, and are increasingly interested in seizing the opportunity of a second mobility in another study cycle. Incoming students: 40% improvement. Factors of this significant growth: 1, the number of studies offered in English has increased; 2, the well-being of students has - owing to the wide range of programs organised for incoming students by the buddies and the ESN Óbuda University ? further improved; 3, positive opinions of incoming students generated more interest among their fellows at their home universities. Outgoing teaching mobility: The headcount has slightly decreased ant the dissemination among faculties has not been uniform either. However, feed-backs from partner institutions are positive, stable connections have been established and invitations are recurring. On top of these, teaching staff mobility, through professional ties, has led to other applications and scientific collaboration. Incoming teachers : The number has grown by 40%. A new type of event was one of the main reasons. The business faculty has established a new English speaking course ?New Challenges of the 21st Century?, which is exclusively taught by guest lecturers. The course has been taught in a one-week block, and since the first attempt in the winter semester of 2014 ? responding to its popularity ? has been organised in every semester. Since numerous professional contacts from the Balkan and Russian region have been invited to lecture, the novel approach has resulted in successful credit mobility applications. In addition to this, lectures and seminars of numerous recurring guest lecturers are inherent part of the studies. The increasing number of guest lecturers provides a good opportunity for those students not capable of studying abroad to participate in international education within their home institution. Outgoing staff mobility: The number of teachers and non-teaching staff in staff mobility has more than doubled. Teachers were mainly from engineering faculties and have participated on professional trainings at a partner institution or a company, which has generated, on top of individual benefits, a positive impact on student mobility, since teachers consciously have delegated students to specific fields and have encouraged them for mobility. Administrative personnel have participated on a wide range of trainings from language training to that of specific fields, such as informatics, library management or tasks and opportunities of internationalisation. Incoming staff mobility: Due to lack of capacity we could not organise a demonstrative event, hence numbers were low. In our opinion Óbuda University use utilises the opportunities provided by Erasmus+, and the quantitative and qualitative improvement of mobility has greatly contributed to the development of international indicators and the fulfilment of the strategy aimed at further internationalisation of the institution.

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