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

"Since the origin of the Erasmus Project the University of Teramo has always done of the internationalization an important goal. For this purpose has been established a Master's degree in English language between the University of Teramo and University of Chieti Pescara ""G.D'Annunzio in Reproductive Biotechnologies. Erasmus agreements are 290 and involve 25 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cipro, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, UK, Czech Republic, Romania , Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and Hungary. This collaboration has enabled a continuous exchange of students and staff incoming and outgoing for study and for Traineeship. In particular, the contact with different cultures has opened new horizons to participants by facilitating their employability and strengthening the level of self-sufficiency, self-esteem and ability to meet the multiple and changing needs that the global world requires. Staff mobility aimed at promoting synergies and integration of the different field of education by developing ideas and new forms of cooperation. The UNITE, thanks to numerous agreements with transnational partners, has also enabled 40 students to participate at an international mobility with universities of Russia, Croatia, Albania, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and United States. Some mobilities had already given many professional opportunities to students. The University, as member of the UNIMED Consortium, had an approved project that will increase the students and staff mobility with the Mediterranean Universities. Attaining one of the objectives of the 'Erasmus +, mobility with Partners Countries, the university had the approval of the KA107 for a mobility to and from Ukraina (Maritime University of Odessa). The UNITE as member of ASPE Consortium, Bet for Jobs-Coordinator University of Calabria can offer more mobility opportunities for Traineeship. For the academic year 2015/16 has been financed no. 35 mobilities opportunities.L'UNITE joined, as Partner, the project submitted by the Province of Catanzaro ""Scientec"".For the purpose of achieving the objectives of the Project as the increased participation at mobility calls we provide at their dissemination through different channels (specific meetings in the classrooms, banquet set up for this purpose, web pages, radio, local newspapers, social networks, and Erasmus Association). A commission made up of the Erasmus Faculty Coordinators and the Institutional Coordinator, guaranteed to candidates a clear and transparent selection with the aid of computer support. It was also provided to all students a continuous support (before, during and after mobility) with the elaboration of check lists, faq, updated forms (available on-line) front office, tel. and Social Networks. The academic part has guaranteed ongoing support for the Learning Agreement. To each participant has been recognized every activities carried out in compliance with the L.A. and then reported in the student curriculum and in the Diploma Supplement. Mobility also guarantees every participant additional points on the final Degree mark and the double amount of the grant “Borsa Lavoro”. The DS form is available on the University website and it is free of charge. The University Language Centre has provided free language courses (English, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian) for in and out students. The Buddy System project has been realized, with the collaboration of the Erasmus Association, in order to ensure to incoming students a support even before they arrive at our University: directions for arrival (where and how), assistance to find house and all needs for a good stay at the university and in Italy in general. It was also created the Welcome Day during which it was set up also a photographic exhibition whose theme was ""History Erasmus in pictures."" The purpose of the exhibition was to promote participation at the Erasmus + project. Each student was provided of gadgets with logos UNITE / Erasmus +. The project Erasmus at the Café ensured meetings between foreign and italian students with moments of conversation, cinema, cultural visits, culinary meeting. Such meetings offered the opportunity to get in touch with multilingual reality and to break down barriers between people.The University in order to improve services for students and staff incoming has established the International Welcome Office with a new person with appropriate language skills. The International Student's Guide has been done and is available both online and in paper format."

The project on ‘EU Investment Law’ will consist of 3 elements: the teaching program, including 3 annual events/seminars, 1 annual workshop and research activities. The teaching program will be offered every year throughout the lifetime of the project and will be composed of 18 lectures (two-hour long) and 3 events/seminars (each 2-hour long). The annual workshop will be four-hour long. These hours will be additional to the hours of the teaching program: the 36-hour long course of lectures of EU Investment Law (a new optional course) and the 6-hours of the 3 events/seminars. The aim of the proposed Jean Monnet Module on ‘EU Investment Law’ is to fill a gap in the teaching and research activities carried out at the University of Teramo (UNITE) for the benefit of any student, as well as of academics, organized civil society, professionals, particularly in enterprises, policy-makers, especially local and regional ones, and all those interested in current trends and developments of EU law and policy framework on investment within and outside the EU internal market. The need of this field of study and research, at the local, regional, national and international levels, has become evident, because EU has been a significant player of the international investment arena, since the 2008 outbreak of the world-wide economic crises. The ‘active learning’ method will be used to allow students and whoever may be interested in the course of lectures and in the events to become aware of the speciality of EU investment law. The didactic materials, presentations, questionnaires, calls for papers and/or slides will be uploaded to the website on ‘EU Investment Law’, that will be set up for the effective implementation of the project, and, in part, to the UNITE digital platform 'Patto con lo studente' that has been re-named 'UNITE E-learning Platform' (available on the homepage of the UNITE website, unite.it). The access to this Platform is open for everyone. UNITE students and academic members have also the opportunity to get access through their usernames and passwords. The results of the research activities will be published in an open-access peer-reviewed e-book and in a few open-access peer-reviewed journals. Besides the website, the Newsletter on ‘EU Investment Law’ will be used for monitoring, disseminating and exploiting the results of the proposed project. The priority target groups of the proposal are composed of the students of UNITE Faculty of Communication Science and any other student “who do not automatically come into contact with EU studies”, because his/her studies “have limited exposure to but are increasingly affected by European aspects”. Another reason why the teaching programme will be integrated into the degree courses of UNITE Faculty of Communication Science is that this Faculty has planned to introduce more relevant law courses, especially EU law-oriented courses. At present, the teaching offer of such a Faculty focuses on economics, communication capacity-building, management, arts and languages. The course of lectures and the events of the proposed project will also be open to the public, particularly to policy-makers, practitioners, civil servants and organized civil society (the supplementary target group), in order to “foster the dialogue” between them and the academic world.These are the chief expected ‘academic added values’ of this proposal.As to the added value of the proposal at the regional and national levels, it is important to point out that a few other Italian universities offer courses of lectures on International Economic Law or International Trade Law that also cover international investment law, but not a specific course of lectures on ‘EU investment law‘.

Biobanking under liquid nitrogen (LN) has satisfactory efficiency but it comes with many drawbacks (e.g. expensive, high carbon footprint, need dedicated facilities, trained personnel, and continuous monitoring and LN supply). Searching Nature for alternatives, long-term preservation there is done by drying rather than freezing. To date, however, mammalian cells do not survive the drying process. Even so, if somatic cells genetic and epigenetic load is maintained, drying can find an important role in biobanking, a fast growing global industry. We aim to elucidate the effects of drying on DNA structure and function, crucial aspects of long-term biobanking not investigated yet, using fibroblast as a model cell, and combining advanced freezing and drying techniques with state-of-the-art Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) and latest genomic technologies. The expected outcomes are definitive data on effects of drying on genomic stability/function, and possible discovery of a protocol to protect the epi/genetic load during cell drying. The crossing between the Researcher’s scientific interest and experience in sperm biology, andrology, cryobiology and drying and the Supervisor’s expertise in embryology and SCNT creates an attractive and very solid background for this proposal, with mutual benefit to both Host and Researcher. While strengthening the Supervisor’s laboratory with his expertise, the Researcher will enhance his creative potential and further develop his interdisciplinary and communication skills by learning SCNT and whole genome analysis as well as mentoring students, participating in conferences, and communicating research results to targeted audiences (scientists, general public, students, stakeholders, policymakers), thus enhancing his scientific profile. This proposal is the perfect stepping stone for the Researcher to become an independent scientist and an expert in desiccation for biobanking, while contributing a competitive advantage to the Host.

"L’internazionalizzazione è uno degli obiettivi qualificanti la strategia di sviluppo dell’Università di Teramo (UniTE), come indicato nella “Teramo Policy statement”, nel Piano Strategico di Ateneo e nella ECHE. Elementi chiave sono: cooperazione e collaborazione per una Alta Formazione di qualità che sono stati sviluppati attraverso varie attività e concretizzati in un n. crescente di accordi con atenei in Europa e in Paesi extra-EU con mobilità in/out di studenti e staff oltre al coinvolgimento in progetti ERASMUS+ e H2020. Per i docenti la mobilità ERASMUS ha contribuito ad aumentare l’esperienza su nuove metodologie di insegnamento; pianificare seminari e forum di discussione coinvolgendo anche altri docenti con le università partner; promozione di nuovi accordi interistituzionali e l’incremento dei canali di informazione. Gli studenti in mobilità hanno espresso un parere positivo sull’esperienza riscontrando un miglioramento nelle capacità comunicative e di autonomia, oltre al raggiungimento degli obiettivi formativi concordati nel L.A. La numerosità delle mobilità per studio out è lievemente diminuita ma controbilanciata da un aumento degli studenti in mobilità per traineeship di maggiore interesse per i corsi di laurea di UniTE offrendo opportunità di crescita di competenze professionalizzanti. Per la mobilità per traineeship UniTE dal 2007 aderisce al Consorzio Bet for Jobs (coord. Univ.della Calabria) e dal 18/19 al consorzio EU4EU ""European Universities for the EU - Italy"" (coord. Univ. La Sapienza) ed al Progetto EspérO,Azienda SpinOFF Univ. del Salento.UniTE è risultata vincitrice di mobilità staff e studenti nel programma KA107 2018-19 per Armenia, Tailandia, Namibia e Ucraina (in totale 7 università) che rafforza la strategia di internazionalizzazione dopo la passata approvazione nel 2017 della KA107 con la Odessa National Marittime University (UK; fine: 31/07/2018) e nel 2018 con l’Argentina. L’adesione di UNITE al Consorzio COMMO (coord. UNIMED) permette di incrementare ulteriormente la mobilità IN/OUT di studenti e staff e nel 2019 UniTE svilupperà scambi con due università in Albania (n. 3 mobilità).Per incoraggiare e premiare la mobilità, agli studenti in mobilità per studio sono assegnati punti aggiuntivi sul voto di laurea e il raddoppio dell’importo della “Borsa lavoro”.Il programma ERASMUS+ è strumento importante per la cooperazione attraverso i progetti KA2. UNiTE è - coordinatore di una Knowledge Alliance (ASKFOOD, 12 partner, 2018-2020), - partner di vari Capacity Bulding: ABioNET (Establishment of Network of Excellence in Bio-products Science and Technology, coord: Alexander Technol. Edu. Inst. Thessaloniki, GR); AgLab, (Improving skills in laboratory practice for agro-food specialists in eastern Europe, coord. Univ. Lubiana,Sl); SPAAT4Food (Strategic Platform for Ameliorating Tunisian HE on Food Sciences and Technology, coord. Univ.Sfax, TN); SEA-ABT (South-East Asia Academy of Beverage Technology, coord. BOKU, AT) e di ARMDOCT (Reforming Doctoral Education in Armenia in Line with Needs of Academia, Industry and Current EU Practices, coord. Eurasia INt. Univ, AR, approvato: 2019); - Partner di n. 1 Strategic Partnership: INTRINSIC (Innovative Education for Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, coord. BOKU, AT). Le convenzioni di cooperazione internazionale con partner transnazionali consentirà da novembre 2019 di svolgere mobilità di studenti verso atenei partner (es. Russia, Croazia, Cina, Messico, Brasile, Argentina, Tailandia). UNITE ha inoltre Accordi con Università straniere per 15 tesi di dottorato in Co-tutela e numerosi dottorati internazionali finanziati su progetti di ricerca. UniTE ha 38 dottorandi laureati presso Atenei stranieri provenienti da ben 37 Atenei stranieri UE ed extra UE. UniTE ha una offerta formativa internazionale con 3 corsi di laurea magistrali internazionali erogati in lingua inglese ed è in corso la definizione di un corso di laurea a doppio titolo con la Università Chulalongkorn (Tailandia), dall’AA 2020-21. Tutte le attività sono state realizzate nel rispetto della non discriminazione (sesso, religione, etnia o qualsiasi altra minoranza), egualità e trasparenza. Per evidenziare ed eliminare eventuali criticità è stato effettuato il monitoraggio in/out da: Ufficio Relazioni. Internazionali (URI), Welcome Office, Coord. Erasmus di Facoltà e Coord. Istituzionale con il supporto di ESN e dei Buddy. Gli studenti IN/OUT hanno potuto frequentare gratuitamente il Centro Linguistico di Ateneo per migliorare le competenze linguistiche. Le attività di mobilità sono da intendersi come parte di un “processo” più ampio teso ad offrire agli studenti di UniTE una formazione più consapevole e competitiva al fine di un migliore e rapido inserimento in un mercato di lavoro globale."