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.

Environmental protection is a globe issue. Air pollution, climate change, underground water contamination, fresh water shortage etc. are main problems in many countries, including USA, Poland and China, especially coal is a main energy resource in Poland and in China. Environmental protection is one of the main issues listed in horizontal 2020 programme, for water and air. EU-China has signed environmental governance programme . To combat the environmental problem, highly qualified individual employee in the labor market are urgently needed.Higher education institutions are the main places to provide the potential highly qualified employee (knowledgeable and core transferable competences) to the labor market. Highly qualified teaching staffs and up to date curricular course, which is often very slow to change, are the main factors to reform and modernization of Polish higher education institutions. Professional development of Polish teaching staff through staff mobility is one of the main paths. It will enhance their knowledge, improve their teaching abilities and skill, develop better innovative teaching methods, develop international dimension in Polish higher education.In this Erasmus+ project, INCT from programme country has staff teaching mobility in the field of environmental protection with two higher education institutions from USA and China. They were: Texas A & M AgriLife Research, Texas A & M University (TAMU), USA.School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) , China.INCT and Texas A & M AgriLife Research are nominated as Collaborating Centers of International Atomic Energy and Agency (IAEA) , only 20 institutions around the world have been nominated by IAEA as Collaborating Centers.In the Erasmus+ KA107 project, there were total 4 staff mobility funded and realized in this project, two mobility ( one incoming and one outgoing ) with XJTU, China and two mobility ( one incoming and one outgoing ) with TAMU, USA.INCT (Poland) is one of the leaders in the world in the field of multiple pollutants (SO2, NOx, VOCs and PAHs) removal from waste off-gases under electron beam (EB) irradiation. Their research results of SO2 and NOx removal with ammonia addition as a dry scrubber from waste off-gases under EB irradiation have been implemented in Polish industrial coal-fired power plant : Pomorzany power station. During INCT staff teaching mobility to China ( 2018. 04) INCT professors had made an introduction of radiation chemistry, the basic principle and chemical process of EB treatment of multiple pollutants (SO2, NOx, chlorinated organic pollutants) from gas phase, and its industrial application , she had intensive discussion with M.Sc students and PhD students after lectures. Prof. Suresh D. Pillai from Texas A& M University , Texas A & M AgriLife Research, USA is a leader in the field of microbial detection and destruction from water and soil using radiation technology. During his Erasmus+ mobility at INCT ( 27-31.08.2018) , he delivered three lectures on the topic of microbial pathogens in raw and treated sewage (including their detection) in the “Workshop of the emerging trends in the sludge treatment” held in August 27, 2018, which was organized by INCT within the framework of H2020 Aries project and Erasmus+ KA107 (http://www.ichtj.waw.pl/drupal/?q=node/924; http://www.ichtj.waw.pl/drupal/?q=node/930; http://www.ichtj.waw.pl/drupal_eng/?q=node/160). The last lecture “Water Reuse Trends in the US” was delivered in August 31, 2018 in INCT. The professor from INCT visited USA in 18-22.03.2019. During his Eramus+ staff teaching mobility, he overviewed the recent developments in electron accelerators and e/X system construction, and accelerators application for flue gases purification and material processing, besides he introduced radiation treatment of biohazards, solid waste and wastewater. Prof. Wang from XJTU, China visited INCT in 25-29.03. 2019. He delivered lectures on the topic of Water & Wastewater Purification using advanced oxidation technology.The lectures delivered by these two professors from USA and China have widen the knowledge of PhD students and research staffs of INCT in environmental protection and radiation technology applications in other fields . The lectures delivered by Erasmus+ incoming professors at INCT have innovated curricular course of INCT in the field of environmental protection. The Erasmus+ staff mobility has also strengthened collaboration between INCT and Texas A & M, between INCT and XJTU, and realized internationalization strategy of three institutions involved. Three institutions have reinforced their relationship and will continue their cooperation in the frame of Horizontal 2020 programme, EU-China or Polish-China programme, or under the frame of Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2 programme.

The Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (INCT) has been awarded the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the Erasmus+ programme 2014-2020. Our institutional strategy in relation to the Erasmus+ Charter is INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY. The Institute runs unique PhD studies in the field of radiochemistry and radiation chemistry. The lecturers are the professors and researchers from all over Europe. Our main target of mobility activities are students of 3rd cycle and employees of the Institute: professors, researchers. The students are able to participate in student exchange or international internship. Our object is to increase the strengths, quality and attractiveness of the Institute (e.g. daily work, research, studies) through international cooperation. In the academic year 2016/2017, there were 4 staff mobility, 2 for training mobility and 2 for teaching mobility. Staff category included junior , middle and senior staffs , 2 Male and 2 female staffs. Two staffs had five-day training mobility at Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), Romania. They has been working on the multiple pollutants removal from gas phase using radiation technology in their home institution. During their training mobility in Romania, both of them had training program in using Matlab programming in revising the kinetic model for the extended gas phase process pending to EBTFG in order to acquire new modelling skills using Matlab programming environment, to optimize the pending software. After their training programme, both of them increased their knowledge of chemical kinetic modelling calculation by using MATLAB. The obtained knowledge in this mobility will benefit for her/his future work in the field of air pollutants control in the environmental protection. Two Staffs (1 male and 1 female) teaching mobility had been realized in the academic year 2016/2017. One female Professor delivered her lectures in the field of the environmental protection to M.Sc and PhD students at Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Through her visit and two Professors from UPB in the framework of Erasmus+ KA1 visit at INCT, two institutions (INCT and UPB) has strengthened their cooperation.One male Professor delivered his lectures in the field of Analytical and radiation chemistry in Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia. Through his visit, two institutions has reinforced their cooperation.Staff mobility of INCT have improved INCT staffs skill and qualification in their daily work, teaching/research activities. Erasmus + individual mobility project has increased the strengths, quality and attractiveness of the Institute (e.g. daily work, research, studies) through international cooperation.

Environmental protection is a globe issue. Air pollution, climate change, under ground water contamination, fresh water shortage etc. is a main problem in both countries, Poland and China, especially coal is a main energy source for both countries. Environmental protection is one of the main issues listed in horizontal 2020 programme, for water and air. EU-China has signed environmental governance programme . To combat the environmental problem, highly qualified individual employee in the labor market are urgently needed.Higher education institutions are the main places to provide the potential highly qualified employee (knowledgeable and core transferable competences) to the labor market. Highly qualified teaching staffs and up to date curricular course, which is often very slow to change, are the main factors to reform and modernization of Polish higher education institutions. Professional development of Polish teaching staff through staff mobility is one of the main paths. It will enhance their knowledge, improve their teaching abilities and skill, develop better innovative teaching methods, develop international dimension in Polish higher education. In this project only the staff teaching mobility ( 1 outgoing and 1 incoming ) was funded. Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (INCT) from programme country has realized its staff teaching mobilities with a higher education institutions from partner country (China), it is School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, P. R. China. Associate Prof. Yongxia Sun, who has been working on the multiple pollutants removal from gas phase over 19 years and has previous collaboration experience with China, delivered her lectures in the field of radiation technology application to remove SO2, NOx and chlorinated compounds from air to M.Sc students and PhD students of XJTU during her teaching mobility to XJTU in April 2016. Prof. Zhaolin Gu from XJTU University visited IChTJ and delivered his lectures in May 2016 on the field of dust transportation in the air and urban building environment using computer simulation CFD method to the PhD students and IChTJ research staffs. Both professors have presented their newest research results in their own specific field and transferred their knowledge to the students and their peers (teaching and research staffs), and innovated curricular course in the field of environmental protection through their mobility. Two institutions have reinforced their relationship and will continue their cooperation in the frame of Horizontal 2020 programme, EU-China or Polish-China programme, or under the frame of Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2 programme.

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