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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 Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) is a public comprehensive higher educaiton institution, which proposes more than one hundred national degree programmes from bachelor’s degree to PhDs. The Research and Education fields are structured around 4 areas through its 3 faculties, 3 institutes and 2 doctoral schools : Arts, Letters, Languages - Sciences, Technology, Health - Humanities and Social Sciences - Law, Economy, Management. The large offer of study programmes is supported by a dynamic research through the association of its 16 laboratories with social-economic actors, industries, competitiveness clusters and great national research organizations. UPVD is known as a university with high international visibility : It receives annually 9500 students, within 23% of international students (within 36% of european countries) representing 120 nationalities. By its participation in numerous European & multilateral projects (Tempus, INTERREG, Erasmus Mundus, Erasmus+..), it has acquired a real know-how in implementation and management of international cooperations, capacity building projects and exchange of good practices, particularly in the field of Education. The main objectives of the project are: - Increasing outgoing mobility for students and staff, - Enhancing internationalization and strengthening the quality of the study offer for the students, - Developing and enhancing the quality of cooperation with universities and partner organizations, - Improving the employability of students, - Strengthening the capacity and skills of university staff, - Developing the awareness and visibility of the institution in the European area of higher education and internationally. The Erasmus + project Mobility for Higher Education 2014-2016, has funded 71 students and 10 academic staff mobilities. Specifically, the project funded 60 students for studies and 11 students in internship mobility. Students were enrolled in short cycle (7%), 1st Cycle (49%) and 2nd cycle (44%). The staff mobility was mainly for teaching activities organized for one week at a partner university. The main destination countries were the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and Turkey. These results are in line with the UPVD policy of international cooperation and partnerships development. The UPVD has signed in 2014, 102 Erasmus+ agreements with 60 universities (including 18 with Spain, 9 with United Kingdom, 3 with Ireland and 2 with Turkey) and in 2015, with 12 new partners (including two Spanish and one English). Regarding the profile of the project' participants, women represent 69% of the outgoing mobility, and 31% for men. The administrative and financial management and coordination of the project' activities are carried out by the International Relations Office (SURI) at the central level, and in relation with the services for student life and the faculties of UPVD. The selection of participants was done by the Erasmus+ pedagogical coordinators, organized by Field of study. It is based on transparent procedure and criteria, respecting the Erasmus Charter. Participants from incoming and outgoing mobility, received administrative, linguistic and educational support throughout their stay. The SURI organized each semester for incoming students a welcome session and the opportunity to participate to the "international mentoring" system, which allow to be welcomed and accompanied by a UPVD student, for a successful integration. The project allowed UPVD to develop its internationalization and the professional skills of staff and students, to led them to better integrate and improve their employability in the European and world market. After the end of the European funding of the project, to obtain multiplier effects in terms of cooperation, UPVD plans to strengthen relationships with partner universities, through new bilateral agreements and structural & integrated multilateral projects that will ensure the sustainability of inter-university exchanges.

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