This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.

<< Background >>In the AXIS project participate both students and staff from the Vocational Programme in Agriculture at the Agricultural University of Iceland. Students in the first of their two year vocational programme in agriculture are obliged to take three months traineeships (12 weeks) period at a farm. Through this project the students can apply to take around 2 weeks of their training period at a Scandinavian farm (Norway/Denmark). Teachers and staff at the Vocational Programme in Agriculture can either participate in monitoring of the student traineeships abroad.Participants will evaluate their experience of the mobility and report to colleagues. It is hoped that long term benefits for the students will be that they are better skilled and independent, have a broader view on agriculture,that they can both apply for work in another country after graduation to gain further experience and/or implement their knowledge and experience from abroadinto their farming in Iceland in the future. In regard of teachers and staff long term benefit might be better knowledge on agriculture in internationalcontext, reflection on new experience and implementation of new ideas into own teaching at AUI.<< Objectives >>The main objectives for the participants is to enlarge the horizon, both for students and staff. For students the objectives is to give them a change to learn how agriculture is practiced in our neighboring countries, to learn newbest practices, to gain an insight into new culture and society, to become more competent in a foreign language and to strengthen them as participants in a democratic society. The main objectives for teachers and staff is to learn how agriculture in a changing world is addressed in other agricultural schools, to learn best practices in environmental issues and sustainable use of land and todiscuss subject matters with colleagues and reflect on their own subjects and teaching at home, since AUI is the only agricultural school in Iceland it is vital for AUI's staff to meet with colleagues in other countries. For each year of the project we planned to send 6 students to go on mobility and take two week long period on a farm either in Norway or Denmark through the vocational partners of the project.Two teachers should follow the student groups abroad at the beginning of the training period. Coordinators at hosting schools will monitor the training period on behalf of the project.<< Implementation >>Covid had a severe impact on the planned project implementation since all mobilities were required to be physical mobilities. Virtual mobilities were not an option for this AXIS project since it is all about hands-on learning experiences.In the first year 2019/2020 all planned mobilities where cancelled after the everything was already planned and scheduled for spring 2020. In the year 2020/21 no activities could be implemented due to ongoing Covid restrictions.But finally, in the school year 2021/2022 we could successfully implement the mobilities of students and one teacher as it was originally planned.<< Results >>The results of the project were the successful work placements of our students and the mobility of our teacher in order to deepen the cooperation with our Scandinavian partner schools. We successfully applied for a further project with our partners and will continue to cooperate and exchange students and staff.Learning outcomes and international experiences of our students were very positive.

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.

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.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.