Umeå university has been active within the Erasmus programme since the mid nineties. Within the framework of the programmeUmeå university has had the opportunity to build up an extensive collaboration with European universities within the areas of research, teaching, education development and students and staff mobility. We have developed well- established strategic processes to ensure that partnerships are appropriate and mutually beneficial in order to ensure sustainability and quality to our education. Our partners complement and bring a new dimension to our programmes and we strive to have a reciprocity in our exchange. When collaborating, we put emphasize in educational standards but also the ability to provide our students with a wide variety of social and cultural experiences. As well as bringing in international competence and culture to the university within teaching and course development, our staff and students also contributes to enhancing Umeå universitys profile as a international prominent university with a high quality in teaching and education. Our objectives have been to continue our efforts to increase mobility and cooperation at the same time adding an international dimension to the education which will increase the quality of the education as well. We strive actively towards these objectives using the possibilities that are offered within the Erasmus programme. Our mobility activities are aimed at all levels of studies and all personnel directly related to study and research activities. By offering the possibility to both study and work abroad we will be able to equip our students with a wide knowledge that stems from intercultural awareness from all over the world and prepare them for working life within an international area. Another objective is to offer working and teaching environment with international dimensions in order to raise the level of educational quality and to become a more attractive workplace. For staff, international exchange provide the opportunity for continuous pedagogic and scientific development and professional and personal development. To increase the number of teachers and staff that spends a shorter or longer period abroad will be beneficial for several purposes. It will enrich the curricula at the home university, giving the students at home the chance to take part of international education both from teachers who spent a period abroad as well as from teachers coming from our partner universities. It will also, serve as encouragement for students, in promoting the possibility to study abroad and preparing them for a different learning environment. There were 179 outgoing students and 37 outgoing staff during the project. There has been a slight increase in the number of outgoing students, and a large increase in the number of students for training. Students who traditionally not go on an exchange due to different reasons, cease the opportunity to go on training instead. As regards to the teachers and staff, we can see a decrease in the number of outgoing teachers and a slight increase in the number of staff. We have faced the same challenges this period as in the past. Ensuring that information reaches students and staff when working at central level is a challenge and something we constantly strive to improve. The most popular destination for students to study is UK, or universities with courses in English. The faculty of Social Sciences are most represented when it comes to outgoing students, where Umeå School of Business and Economics have the larger parts of outgoing students. Teachers and staff going on exchange has made it possible to explore and develop new ways of thinking, and new organizational skills. It has also strengthened our brand and reputation with our partners, and enabled closer collaboration. To be able to develop our work within the programme and internationalisation we constantly strive to benchmark ourselves with other universities, both national as well as international. This is made possible by our participation in national and international networks. We share good ideas and disseminate good examples internally as well as externally. Departments who usually do not participate in the Erasmus programme- scheme, have had the possibility to also create networks during staff weeks and teaching exchanges which will be beneficial for future projects and cooperation. New agreements have been signed with prominent universities thanks to collaboration and exchanges via Erasmus. Closer contact and networking with both national and international partners, with seminars, staff weeks and visits, has enabled us to share good practices and benchmark.