The 2014-15 KA1 project here at UCS represented a continuation of over 20 years of Erasmus student exchange in the field of Radiography ? predating even the formation of the university in 2007 from what had been a college. The objective of 2014-15 was to increase the number of partners which outbound students would be able to go to and be attracted to go to, and to increase the number of subject areas (beyond Radiography, Business and Events Management) in which an exchange would be possible. We succeeded in adding Dance, Photography, History and Social Work and all in four new countries with quality partners to add to the 15 countries with which we have had Radiography links over that period. These Erasmus links form a large percentage of our structured and long-term cooperation with higher education institutions.Students: the number of outgoing students on study mobilities increased to a more normal level of numbers (8) after a temporary drop down to (2) due to an unexpected change in course structure. Half of these students benefitted from the disadvantaged background supplement to their grant. To all these Radiography students this 3-month placement is an integral part of their course that adds to the attractiveness of that course at our university and accelerates their personal development as well as employability.The single student traineeship we obtained was not used as the student it was requested for changed their circumstances. Staff have been encouraged to take advantage of the new agreements to encourage outbound mobility to their students but concerns remain about language barriers and grade conversion.Staff: outgoing staff numbers increased from three to five, including two staff traineeships for the first time. In terms of incoming staff teaching, UCS was visited by Spanish and Portuguese colleagues under Erasmus funding and an academic from a new partner HEI in Lithuania to which we subsequently sent a staff member on a training mobility to further strengthen ties. This non-academic staff member has been particularly active in promoting the benefits of this kind of mobility in a number of talks and meetings. The academic staff who went on teaching mobility did so in the new areas of Social Work and Photography made connections and agreements that will hopefully mean we can send students in these areas and more in 2016-17, as we continue to encourage staff and students to explore the idea of study exchange. The permanent display of Erasmus banners, the constant renewal of the Erasmus noticeboard, and the new Erasmus section of our website has helped in presentation of facts and awareness raising. In summary, the programme is maintaining a healthy steady growth o reciprocally viable partnerships and the participants involved and more and more staff and students are themselves submitting enquiries about the possibilities of new subjects and partners.

The GO Functional Improvement & Tourism (GO FIT) project addressed the gap in learning programs between HEI’s exercise and health experts, with both educational and clinical expertise, in collaboration with tourism manager’s specialists. So, the GO FIT project was designed to develop a new learning program, a web platform and a multimedia application with transdisciplinary approach for exercise, health and tourism, in order for the experts/educators/trainers to achieve relevant and high quality skills and competences in designing the appropriate program for tourists and helping them to adopt a new healthy lifestyle. In particular, the GO FIT project was designed to address tourists’ needs to adopt a healthy lifestyle, involving functional exercise. At first, analysis of needs for the tourist population was held. Then, based on this analysis of needs, a new learning program, the Joint Staff Training Event (JSTE), with a transdisciplinary approach for functional exercise, health and tourism experts (target group teachers) developed.Subsequently, the new blended teaching and learning materials was used by academics and clinicians to train the exercise science students to enhance the quality and relevance of their knowledge and skills on: how they will be able to apply functional exercise programs for tourists during their holidays, to prevent musculoskeletal conditions and improve their functional ability of their kinetic system while triggering them to adopt a new healthy lifestyle (target groups: students & tourists). Also, the final GO FIT academic course, which was offered in the HEI partner’s Exercise Science curriculum, will continually enhance the quality and relevance of exercise science students' knowledge and skills, also providing sustainability of the project (target group students).The main goal of the partnership addressed the need to develop a new intensive learning program (focused on transforming ‘ideas into action’ in line with Europe 2020 recommendations) for exercise, health & tourism specialists, which acts as a catalyst for their own professional development. Partners from different countries with transdisciplinary approach were selected and contributed to the present project:Clinical experts with dual role (physiotherapists and orthopedic medicals in Germany, ORTH) on current methods of clinical treatment for common muscular skeletal conditions (i.e. knee pain, shoulder pain, low back pain) and possible preventive strategies, UOS’s (UK) academic staff with knowledge in counseling on current methods how an individual can follow a healthy lifestyle (i.e. Exercise and eating habits), HEI’s staff (DUTH’s, EUC’s & KUC’s) with knowledge and skills in kinetic system’ discomforts, in chronic diseases and in body weight control management through exercise programs and Experts in tourism (TEIA & ALBA). Therefore, the partners teached how all these health promotion programs can be designed and applied in tourists in hotel facilities (gym, pool, gardens, beaches, sea etc) and eventually for general public. This collaboration demanded transnational and transdisciplinary teaching and learning materials to educate exercise leaders and tourists in how a healthy lifestyle can be adopted by them, enhancing and strengthening the role of higher education in EU countries.