This organisation has been awarded an Erasmus accreditation. The award of the accreditation confirms that the organisation has set up a plan to implement high quality mobility activities as part of a wider effort to internationalize its activities and to improve the quality of learning and teaching at the organisation. Accredited organisations are committed to a set of quality standards defined at the European level. By being accredited, the organisation gains continuous and easier access to funding for mobility activities of learners and staff under Key Action 1.

Excellence & Ambition are key words for international mobility of students and staff. Especially for astudent who decides to go on a placement in another country it demands a high level of personal skill and endurance based on the ambition to succeed and to fulfill a dream. An ambition not just for the immediate future but also for the future career. Even though ROCMN provides a high level of support for students with the ambition to go abroad, much is still demanded of the student. This is were excellence becomes important, excellence as in determination, personal commitment and responsibility. Excellence & Ambition is the first project of ROCMN as an Erasmus Moblity Charter school. The project expresses the ambition of the school to expand its opportunities for students and staff internationally and to offer excellent experiences both incoming and outgoing students and staff. In line with our ambition to offer higher quality and to double international mobility as expressed in the Charter the new online tool “virtual International Office” will be available for the first time. This tool offers students an easy, uniform and efficient procedure for receiving E+ funding. It gives coordinators more time to promote international opportunities and support students. Coordinators will be supported by a new campaign to promote international mobility. This is part of our UP label which promotes excellence in many different forms across the college. Students and staff taking part in this project can also profit from the new strategic alliance between a number of the partners in this application. This partnership which will be formalised will offer better cooperation, better planning and ultimately more mobilities between the partners. Other measures to increase quality are for example: better preparation, more contact with companies abroad, better support during the placement and better evaluation. all in all a huge push for excellence & ambition internationally. This project involves 200 students and staff of most departments of ROCMN. It mainly concerns students who go on individual placements as well as students that take part in a large theatre project in italy. It also involves students of level 2 of engineering that go to Finland and Spain. They get extra support from the department and they go to our partners in Finland and Spain who have experience with hosting level 2 students and of course it requires excellence and ambition of these students. This application also involves training programmes for 72 teachers from a host of departments across the college. These teachers will be trained in new technologies, new didactics, new counselling methodologies, etc at our partner institutions in line with their own personal professional development as well as the strategic policies of the college. In all these activities we work very closely with our partners across Europe. We also receive students and staff from all our partners as incoming mobilities are highly effective in increasing international awareness at the college. Incoming mobilities also increase understanding of the value of international exchange and intercultural dialogue.

The FIGAROL project that the Department of Education has managed as coordinator of a Consortium for VET Centres teaching Intermediate Modules has tried to encourage the participation of public VET schools in Navarra in three main types of activities:A. - Long-term mobility in companies for young students of Intermediate ModulesB. - Short-term mobility for young students of Intermediate Module, accompanied by tutors of their VET schools.C. - The mobility of trainers to know companies or training areas which could improve their professional skills.A.- Within the long-term mobilities, 59 placements have been carried out in the following countries:Gernany, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.Every student has followed a process of election, preparation and similar follow-up, directed by the Unit of Internationalization of Vocational Training of the Department of Education of the Government of Navarra, together with the cooperation of the persons in charge for Internationalization of the VET school participating in the Consortium.These long-term placements have been organized for 13 weeks with a prior preparation that has consisted of the following issues:- Initial orientation on the general aspects of the stay and its characteristics.- Preparation in VET centres for those aspects related to the peculiarities of integrating into the staff of a company.- Guidance on practical aspects of the placement, including suggestions for travelling, security, health care, documentation on the stay, etc ...- Guidance provided by the intermediary partners on issues related to country habits and uses, on the practical advice for stays in the companies and on the general indications for the follow-up of the placements.All students have received the Grant Agreement, the Training Agreement and the Europass Mobility.The company has also been requested to carry out a series of monitoring and evaluation materials that will account for the activities carried out during the internship.The degree of satisfaction of the students has been satisfactory in general. The Department of Education has also tried to measure the satisfaction rate by means of a survey that has been requested for the completion of the students' placements.For this reason, we could say that the objectives initially set for this type of activity have been reached.B.- With regard to the group of young people who have performed mobilities for 2 weeks, it has been possible to achieve a greater impact than expected. We have performed 35 placements distributed in groups that have travelled to the following countries: Malta, Italy and Germany.The placements have been organized through VET centres or intermediary partners in such a way that they have been able to carry out tasks of their profiles in companies or workshops.These placements have been controlled by 6 teachers who have developed the tasks of organisation and tutoring for the groups of students who have developed their practical training under this modality. C.- VET teachers have developed individual stays in Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy and The Netherlands. In total, 8 teachers who have done their placements in companies of their professional profile to work with tasks related to their academic interests.Three teachers have developed a placement at the same time in the same Dutch VET school, where they have been able to work with tasks related to Project Based Learning. This experience has also provided the possibility of a collaborative relationship for future training placements between the two institutions.The participants have been asked to carry out a series of dissemination measures which will promote the possibility of more teachers or professionals participating in similar programs.

STARDUST serves as smart connector bringing together advanced European cities and citizens of Pamplona (ES), Tampere (FI) and Trento (IT) - with the associated follower cities of Derry (UK), Kozani (GR) and Litomerice (CZ). These six cities, collaborating with relevant industrial partners, including a variety of innovative local SME, and supported by academia and research centres will demonstrate three lighthouse cities, deploy intelligent integration measures, test and validate technical solutions and innovative business models, and deliver blueprints for replication throughout Europe and abroad. The objective of STARDUST project is to pave the way towards the transformation of the carbon supplied cities into Smart, high efficient, intelligent and citizen oriented cities, developing urban technical green solutions and innovative business models, integrating the domains of buildings, mobility and efficient energy through ICT, testing and validating these solutions, enabling their fast roll out in the market . The core idea of the STARDUST project is the demonstration of different “innovation islands” as urban incubators of technological, social, regulatory and market solutions which, once validated, could contribute to this objective of transformation of our cities towards Smart Cities. The integrated approach of STARDUST is based in the combination of technological solutions with human being reflected in joint decision making, economic constraints, citizen’s governance, etc. The STARDUST Smart City concept has been designed to enhance the integration of all these aspects to define a new Urban Metabolism.