The University of Rijeka (UNIRI) is a contemporary and research University founded in 1973. It presently comprises of 10 faculties, 4 University departments, an Academy of Applied Arts, a University Library and a Student Centre. UNIRI joined the LLP Erasmus program in 2009. UNIRI participation in LLP program included students and staff exchange, cooperation within LLP Intensive Programs and organisation of EILC courses. In 2013 UNIRI was awarded the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the participation in Erasmus+ from 2014 to 2020. In six academic years almost 700 University of Rijeka students and 120 staff members will have participated in Erasmus. Also, from 2011, when Croatia fully entered the Erasmus program, UNIRI hosted more than 400 incoming Erasmus students and 200 staff members. For 2014/2015 UNIRI signed over 320 Erasmus bilateral agreements with universities from the majority of EU countries, enabling 712 outgoing and 712 incoming student mobilities and 607 staff mobilities from/to partner institutions. UNIRI constantly encourages mobility activities, in order to reach the number of 5% of UNIRI staff and students in first, second and third cycles, involved in Erasmus exchanges. UNIRI has embodied its aspiration towards internationalisation into its Strategic Plans 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 by outlining a strategic goal by which UNIRI will become ''a dynamic university actively involved in the European Research Area and the European Higher Education Area, which systematically and in an organised manner fosters internal and external scientist and student mobility''. In order to increase general mobility of its members, UNIRI actively pursues bilateral and multilateral agreements with HEIs all over the world. For 2014/2015 UNIRI planned to increase the mobility numbers from 2013/2014, which was successfully achieved (for 13%), however the mobility numbers could have been higher if UNIRI was awarded higher budget. In 2014/2015 UNIRI had 136 outgoing Erasmus students (117 mobilities for studies and 19 mobilities for traineeships) as well as 25 staff mobilities (13 for teaching and 12 for training). In 2014/2015 UNIRI hosted 140 incoming students and more than 50 staff members. The budget awarded by our National Agency for 2014/2015 was almost fully used. In 2014/2015 UNIRI published 1 Erasmus tender for students mobility and 2 Erasmus tenders for staff mobility. The central University International Relations Office (IRO) was responsible for the publicity and visibility of Erasmus. IRO created forms, tender texts, information packages, organised Erasmus tenders and dealt with formalities and procedures regarding incoming and outgoing students. It promoted the program through radio and local television presentations and by publishing Erasmus-related articles in local dailies. IRO regularly published mobility-related info at the University web site, underlying the possibilities offered to candidates with special needs and those with lower socio-economic background. IRO assisted students in application procedures, finding accommodation, regulation of residence permit, obtaining visas and inclusion into everyday life, with a support of ESN Rijeka. Erasmus Coordinators (mainly professors) appointed at each of UNIRI member institutions helped IRO with information distribution. They were in charge of academic issues related to outgoing/incoming students (learning and training agreements, transcripts of records, ECTS recognition). IRO also cooperated with the University Committee for Erasmus and Rijeka School of Croatian language offering free courses of Croatian to all incoming students. Recognition of ECTS credits, grades and period of traineeship abroad is defined by the University Rulebook on international exchange of students, teaching and non-teaching staff within Erasmus. Recognition was carried out on the basis of learning/training agreements and transcript of records/work, considering obtained knowledge, competences, contents and results of learning. The info on mobility was registered in Diploma Supplements (DS). Member institutions directly recognized courses, ECTS credits and grades obtained abroad, according to transcript of records. Additional ECTS credits were registered in DS. UNIRI is very satisfied with the achieved results and impact of the Erasmus project. Strengthening of international cooperation, mobility in particular raised the general standard of education at UNIRI (400 courses of study in English and other foreign languages were initiated at the University over the past six years) and encouraged the development of language proficiency and intercultural competences among students and staff members. Furthermore, UNIRI considers student and staff mobility shall have long term benefits in terms of establishing excellent foundations for initiating joint research projects, double, multiple and joint degree programmes and networking with partner institutions.

The development of common European data spaces is the bedrock of the future European data economy, which could bring huge benefits, but also poses significant challenges and risks. Hence, it is vital to perform research on how common European data spaces should be governed by appropriate rules. Data Governance and Intellectual Property Governance in Common European Data Spaces (DGIP-CEDS) aims to map, analyse and further develop legal definitions, rights and obligations, structures, procedures and related mechanisms to support the conceptualisation and operationalisation of (potentially reoccurring) data governance and related IP governance issues in common European data spaces. To achieve that, the project will: (1) map legal sources, principles, requirements and data space configurations that may define data governance and IP governance in common European data spaces; (2) analyse the legal operationalisation of data governance and IP governance requirements in the implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS), the first major sectoral data-sharing legislation (by focusing on the national implementation of the EHDS by public sector bodies in Croatia and on the rights/obligations and interests of various health stakeholders); and (3) develop legal solutions to support the conceptualisation of data governance and IP governance requirements in other common European data spaces (by considering developments in the energy, industrial-manufacturing, and smart city and communities data spaces and the rights/obligations and interests of relevant stakeholders). DGIP-CEDS intends to contribute to the development of common European data spaces with a suppletory legal focus to aggregate and transmit knowledge between data space developments that are taking place in silos. The fellow will be hosted by the University of Rijeka and will cooperate with the EC Joint Research Centre, public sector bodies, economic actors, non-profit organisations and data space experts.

The module’s objective was to create a specialised course in EU social security law, as an elective course at the fifth and final year of the integrated Study of Law. It is based the existing course Social security and competition law. Given that the subject-matter of the existing course was too narrow to cover various issues arising under the EU social security law, the module introduced a teaching upgrade of the existing course in terms of its contents, methodology and teaching materials. The reason for reframing the existing course was that the teaching of EU social security law has so far been only marginal at the Croatian law faculties and there is a compelling need for a separate course in view of the increased mobility of Croatian nationals as EU citizens. EU public social security systems face similar challenges which are putting pressure on their financial sustainability and on fundamental principles inherent in the European Social Model. Even though social security is and will remain a national prerogative, it is not isolated from EU law. Competition law is just one area where this influence can be observed. The rationale of this module was therefore to develop a course which challenges the ‘old’ approach in teaching of social security law as a protected national domain and educate students on social security issues in a highly mobile society. The module expands the existing syllabus to include other areas in which the EU and national orders intertwine, most notably social security coordination, cross-border health services, open method of coordination in social protection, and EU anti-discrimination law. Three stages of implementation with clear indicators of achievement were planned: preparation of new syllabus and its approval at the level of Faculty (first year), its implementation (second and third year), during which time the textbook following the new syllabus will be prepared and published (end of third year). Involvement of guest lecturers was envisaged as a way to advance the understanding of the European dimension of social security and make use of their teaching experience. Module’s outcomes are based on the following activities:-reform of the existing course Social security and competition law, which will focus on broadening of its content to include all matters of EU social security law;-preparation of a first comprehensive textbook on EU social security law in Croatian;-creation of open-access website with teaching materials; -organisation of a one-day seminar on open issues of EU social security law. This is a novel approach in teaching, aiming to stimulate wider multi-disciplinary discussions and revise the teaching contents in view of practical problems in the application of EU social security law. Module’s impact is visible on three levels: -institutional – it will reshape the existing course and offer students at the start of their professional careers a specialised knowledge in EU social security law and thus reinforce the teaching of EU law related subjects at the University of Rijeka; -local and national – outputs (textbook, open-access web repository) will be accessible to all interested parties in libraries, bookshops and Internet; -European and international – visiting lecturers, experts in the field of social security will share their experience and knowledge and the module will thus stimulate academic cooperation in the region and beyond.

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.

The University of Rijeka (UNIRI) is a contemporary and research University founded in 1973. It presently comprises of 10 faculties, 4 University departments, an Academy of Applied Arts, a University Library and a Student Centre. UNIRI joined the LLP Erasmus program in 2009. UNIRI participation in LLP program included students and staff exchange, cooperation within LLP Intensive Programs and organisation of EILC courses. In 2013 UNIRI was awarded the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the participation in Erasmus+ from 2014 to 2020. In eight academic years, more than 1000 University of Rijeka students and almost 300 staff members will have participated in Erasmus. In addition, from 2011, when Croatia fully entered the Erasmus program, UNIRI hosted more than 850 incoming Erasmus students and 350 staff members. For 2016/2017 UNIRI signed over 460 Erasmus bilateral agreements with universities from the majority of EU countries, enabling 1000 outgoing and 1000 incoming student mobilities and 917 staff mobilities from/to partner institutions. UNIRI constantly encourages mobility activities, in order to reach the number of 5% of UNIRI staff and students in first, second and third cycles, involved in Erasmus exchanges. UNIRI has embodied its aspiration towards internationalisation into its Strategic Plans 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 by outlining a strategic goal by which UNIRI will become ''a dynamic university actively involved in the European Research Area and the European Higher Education Area, which systematically and in an organised manner fosters internal and external scientist and student mobility''. In order to increase general mobility of its members, UNIRI actively pursues bilateral and multilateral agreements with HEIs all over the world. For 2016/2017 UNIRI planned to increase the mobility numbers from 2015/2016, which was successfully achieved (5% for students, 43% for staff), however the mobility numbers could have been higher if UNIRI was awarded higher budget. In 2016/2017 UNIRI had 159 outgoing Erasmus students (122 mobilities for studies and 37 mobilities for traineeships) as well as 62 staff mobilities (19 for teaching and 43 for training, 1 person withdrew due to force majeure). In 2016/2017 UNIRI hosted 129 incoming students and more than 100 staff members. The budget awarded by our National Agency for 2016/2017 was almost fully used.In 2016/2017 UNIRI published 1 Erasmus tender for students mobility and 2 Erasmus tenders for staff mobility. The central University International Relations Office (IRO) was responsible for the publicity and visibility of Erasmus. IRO created forms, tender texts, and information packages, organised Erasmus tenders and dealt with formalities and procedures regarding incoming and outgoing students. It promoted the program through radio and local television presentations and by publishing Erasmus-related articles in local dailies. IRO regularly published mobility-related info at the University web site, underlying the possibilities offered to candidates with special needs and those with lower socio-economic background. IRO assisted students in application procedures, finding accommodation, regulation of residence permit, obtaining visas and inclusion into everyday life, with a support of ESN Rijeka. Erasmus Coordinators (mainly professors) appointed at each of UNIRI member institutions helped IRO with information distribution. They were in charge of academic issues related to outgoing/incoming students (learning and training agreements, transcripts of records, ECTS recognition). IRO also cooperated with the University Committee for Erasmus and Rijeka School of Croatian language offering free courses of Croatian to all incoming students. Recognition of ECTS credits, grades and period of traineeship abroad is defined by the University Rulebook on international exchange of students, teaching and non-teaching staff within Erasmus. Recognition was carried out on the basis of learning/training agreements and transcript of records/work, considering obtained knowledge, competences, contents and results of learning. The info on mobility was registered in Diploma Supplements (DS). Member institutions directly recognised courses, ECTS credits and grades obtained abroad, according to transcript of records. Additional ECTS credits were registered in DS.UNIRI is very satisfied with the achieved results and impact of the Erasmus project. Strengthening of international mobility in particular raised the general standard of education at UNIRI (400 courses of study in English and other foreign languages were initiated at the University over the past eight years) and encouraged the development of language proficiency and intercultural competences among students and staff members. Furthermore, UNIRI considers student and staff mobility shall have long term benefits in terms of establishing excellent foundations for initiating joint research projects and joint degree programmes.