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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Date du début: 1 juin 2014, Date de fin: 31 mai 2016 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

The University of Tartu (UT) has been participating in the Erasmus programme since 1999/2000, thus from the year Estonia joined the programme. UT has extensive experiences arranging international mobility, a steadily growing partnership network, alumni with international experience and a growing number of staff experienced in international education. The Erasmus programme has grown into most known mobility tool and more than 50 % of incoming and outgoing students are making use of this valuable opportunity. Incoming mobility has grown steadily over the recent years and is exceeding the respective numbers of outgoing students. The network of partner universities is wide and partnership covers all the disciplines taught in our comprehensive university. Our students have all the options to benefit from high quality mobility experience. In the period covered within this report, the academic units of the university had nearly 800 agreements (with around 450 universities). To facilitate mobility and enhance international engagement, the university has increased its offer in international degree programmes. In the year 2016, there are 19 international degree programmes and nearly 700 courses taught in English at UT. In the Erasmus + project 2014, 293 UT students participated in mobility - out of them 172 students were studying and 121 doing their traineeship abroad. The proportion of first and second cycle students was almost equal (I cycle 149 and II 140). PhD students are not so actively participating in the programme for understandable reasons, during this project period there were 4 outgoing PhD students. Most of the students participating in the mobility were from the Faculty of Social Sciences (157) and Humanities and Arts (82). The highest number of mobile students studied or participated in training in Germany (47), Spain (37) and Finland (26). The students studied in 114 different universities across Europe (plus traineeship facilities) and this indicates a broad scope of our partnership network. Most of the students fulfilled all their obligations taken with learning and /or training agreement, the courses taken abroad were recognised towards their degrees. More than 95% of the mobile students graded their experience very highly (with the highest mark in the respective feedback system). In the academic year 2014/2015, 317 Erasmus programme students studied at UT and 27 academics from partner universities were teaching here. Though the duration of the project varies in our partner universities (either 16 or 24 months), based on the students’ feedback surveys we could assume that during the reported project 294 Erasmus programme incoming students studied at UT. Incoming Erasmus students originated from 135 different institutions across Europe and their diverse academic backgrounds enriched our academic community. Most of the incoming students studied in the Faculty of Humanities and Arts (93) and Social Sciences (79). All incoming Erasmus students completed their studies fulfilling our requirement to earn minimum 15 ECTS per semester. We consider mobility within the project 2014 very successful – the number of incoming students increased and reached the highest level so far and the participants’ feedback to their mobility experience at UT was very high. The impact of students’ mobility is significant to the whole university. Students’ mobility considerably advances international competitiveness and competences of our academic and administrative staff and prepares for working in multicultural settings. In the Erasmus + project 2014, 118 UT staff members attended the programme - 71 of them participated in staff trainings and 47 delivered lectures in our partner universities. Majority of the people attending staff trainings were from the university’s central support units (22) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (20). Teaching staff members delivering lectures abroad were mostly from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts (24) and Social Sciences (20). All participants evaluated their experience in the Erasmus programme very highly; activities planned in their work plans were carried out accordingly. UT regards staff mobility and its impact on enhancing international learning and teaching environment very important asset for the whole institution. The 2014 project is seen as a very effective contributor to our development plans. Mobility has increased staff’s awareness and readiness to work in international and multicultural community. Moreover, mobility has contributed to the development of various international cooperation projects and enhancement of study and traineeship options. UT is planning to integrate mobility windows to its degree programmes, thus international collaboration and fruitful mobility strongly influence our objectives and mission linked to this.

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