This project focused on EU social values, policy and actions concerning particularly education and employment policies and programs. The implemented Jean Monnet Module was intended and, as I will show below in this Report, this project managed to improve the academic curricula with respect to the European Union policies and values, bringing into courses' content relevant topics, themes and issues and creating bridges between theory and practice, preparing youth for labor market not only with professional knowledge but also with abilities and skills for negotiation, job application, vocational orientation. We started by noticing there is a need on facing social problems like youth unemployment or youth migration and concluding there are many people affected in a direct or non-direct way about this problem. Bringing together the strategy of implementing EU’s objectives and directions on employment and educational policy we accomplished a dual research/teaching activity offering theoretical knowledge and employment skills through activities centered on:a research.scholar effort and an academic approach. We developed two academic courses as proposed and the courses will be part of the academic curricula in the following years as compulsory courses for the MA program Public Policies in the European Union at the Faculty of History, International Relation, Political Science and Communication from Oradea University. An International Conference was held as planned- bringing together academics, students, politicians and media, debating on labour market, labour mobility, education, values, youth issues, integration through education on labour market. A very successful international summer school took place in July 2017 using a modern methodology, challenging topics, simulating interviews, facing with real employers and head hunters, learning to create a CV, a letter of intention, to manage an interview and also visiting public institutions and private companies. After this activity some students were recruited by the employers and some of the students applied for other activities of this module (academic courses). All the information, scientific knowledge but also opinion and suggestion resulted from the debates and activities supported by this project were disseminated and shared with all participants and large public, through a dictionary of social terms and a volume comprising the most relevant papers presented in the conference. The deliverable became an important element of the academic references on EU themes.Focusing on the objective of promoting research in the EU social and educational area at academic level, strengthening teaching capacity of the Department of Political Science and Communication from Oradea University we contrived to the improvement of the European profile of the Department and of the University of Oradea, strengthening the relations and cooperation with other academic and institutions through activities as documentation stages, attending to conferences and seminaries and last but not least encouraging and engaging our students in a series of youth research and projects in the same area, materialized in conference papers, final graduation (Bachelor and Dissertation) papers with relevant topics. There is a preference for choosing Bachelor and dissertation themes related to EU social area. There are graduated students attending for doctoral programs on social EU topics as a result. The module it is to be considered a success and the two courses developed between 2015-2018 are part of the curriculum for further generation of students of MA study program at the Department of Political Science and Communication demonstrating the sustainability of the Jean Monnet project as well as the research on the topic of European values in education and applied to the labour market.

According to the strategic plan of our university, internationalisation is a core objective aiming at extending the collaboration relations with both programme and partner countries. Thus, these projects envisage the development of new relations with institutions from partner countries, strengthening traditional relations with certain institutions, increasing the international visibility of the university, developing the curriculum and improving professional and personal skills of the participants. Under this project, 143 mobilities were carried out, out of which 27 were student mobilities, 34 were teaching mobilities and 81 were straff training mobilities. On the whole, there were 69 outgoing mobilities, while 71 students and staff from partner institutions visited our institution during the implementation of the project.

According to the Strategic plan for the development of the University of Oradea covering the years 2014-2020, one of the strategic objectives within the institutional vision is to increase the degree of internationalisation. This strategic objective envisages strengthening the relations with partner universities and developing the Erasmus+ Programme.Thus, from the point of view of the Erasmus+ programme, as compared to the previous year, there has been an increasing number of student mobilities, from 172 to 244. Out of the two types of mobilities, the traineeship flows have highly developed, rising from 74 during the academic year 2016-2017, to 161 under this contract, that is, 101 mobilities over the initial estimate. On the other hand, we have noticed an increasing interest of the students in traineeship mobilities. As far as staff mobility is concerned, the total number of flows increased from 423 in the academic year 2016-2017, to 535 under this contract. The number of flows exceeded by 118 the figures initially estimated. In total, there have been 172 over the foreseen number of mobility flows.Due to their participation to the mobilities, the students managed to develop their language skills, to integrate to a different social and cultural environment. Thanks to the participation to traineeship mobilities, the students had the opportunity to acquire new professional skills. On the other hand, the staff teahing and training mobilities have contributed to the development of the curriculum, to approaching new teaching and learning methods, and to rendering the administrative process more efficient.

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.

Universitatea din Oradea a implementat pentru prima data programul de mobilitati Erasmus in anul 1998. De atunci, una dintre principalele preocupari a fost dezvoltarea retelei de parteneri si diversificarea domeniilor de cooperare pentru a putea oferi studentilor si personalului angajat oportunitati largi din punctul de vedere al ofertei. Implementarea ECTS si a Sistemului Bologna a avut o contributie majora la procesul de invatare, cum ar fi alegerea disciplinelor si recunoaterea studiilor si plasamentelor realizate la institutiile partenere.Unul dintre principalele obiective cantitative ale institutiei noastre a fost incercarea de crestere a numarului de mobilitati, atat outgoing, cat si incoming. Prin promovarea oportunitatilor de mobilitate Erasmus+, aproape ca am reusit sa atingem targetul propus, lucru ingreunat mult datorita pandemiei Covid19. Totusi, s-au realizat 86 mobilitati SMS, 128 mobilitati SMP, 139 mobilitati STA si 230 mobilitati STT. Un alt obiectiv a fost diversificarea ofertei prin extinderea acordurilor existente si prin semnarea de acorduri cu noi parteneri. In conformitate cu Carta Erasmus, procesul de selectie pentru studenti si personal s-a bazat pe principiul transparentei si al sanselor egale. Lista acordurilor in functie de domenii si destinatii a fost publicata anterior selectiilor. Dupa selectii, studentii au fost coordonati in alegerea disciplinelor. Persoanele de contact mentionate in acorduri au facilitat comunicarea dintre personalul angajat al instituiei noastre si persoana de contact relevanta de la institutia partenera. Studentii si personalul Universitatii din Oradea au putut contacta Departamentul de Relatii Internationale cu privire la orice problema inainte, in timpul si dupa finalizarea mobilitatii personal, prin telefon sau prin e-mail.Pe langa cursurile de limba romana, studentii incoming au fost sprijiniti in contactul cu coordonatorii departamentali corespunzatori si pentru a gasi cazare. De asemenea, au avut posibilitatea sa participe la o serie de activitati care aveau rolul de a-i ajuta sa se adapteze in mediul local. Personalul care a venit la instituia noastra a fost pus in contact cu facultatea corespunzatoare si a fost sprijinit in gasirea cazarii.La intoarcere din mobilitate, s-a asigurat recunoaterea totala a activitatilor si disciplinelor urmate la instituia partenera. Disciplinele care nu au putut fi echivalate vor fi mentionate in Suplimentul la diploma. Datorita participarii la mobilitatile Erasmus, studentii si personalul au reusit sa isi dezvolte abilitatile personale si profesionale, precum si cunostinele de limbi straine. Cadrele didactice s-au familiarizat cu programele de la institutiile partenere pentru a implementa aspectele pozitive de la instituia gazda, in timp ce personalul administrativ a putut sa isi adapteze fluxul de munca in vederea eficientizarii acestuia.