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.

L’Ateneo è l’unica Università presente in una regione che ha registrato un aumento del Pil nel 2018 dell’1,0%, un segnale di crescita significativo se confrontato con il -1,0% dell’anno precedente, ma che soffre del calo demografico, dell’invecchiamento della popolazione e della perdita di residenti, soprattutto giovani e persone in età da lavoro.La «nuova migrazione» è figlia dei profondi cambiamenti intervenuti nella società meridionale, un’area che sta invecchiando e che non si dimostra in grado di trattenere la sua componente più giovane. In questo scenario il ruolo dell’Ateneo è quello di incentivare i giovani a rimanere e a formarsi in regione e offrire loro opportunità di formazione accademiche, culturali e professionali significative e destinate non solo ai più privilegiati e intraprendenti.Risultano pertanto fondamentali le attività di mobilità internazionale, che grazie ai finanziamenti comunitari e ministeriali consentono anche agli studenti svantaggiati economicamente di usufruire di una esperienza all’estero.I resoconti delle esperienze vissute dai nostri studenti, in termini di rafforzamento delle competenze linguistiche, di crescita culturale, personale e professionale, di continuo confronto, di accresciuta consapevolezza di sé e autostima, di desiderio di continuare a vivere l’esperienza della mobilità, sia ripetendo l’Erasmus che partecipando ad altri progetti di mobilità, incoraggia a sviluppare ulteriormente le strategie di internazionalizzazione in tal senso. In particolare, l’esperienza di mobilità per due studenti è stata arricchente; uno studente per traineeship ha ricevuto l’offerta di un contratto a tempo indeterminato presso l’organizzazione che lo ha ospitato durante il tirocinio Erasmus e una studentessa con esigenze speciali ha potuto realizzare il desiderio di svolgere per la prima volta un tirocinio all’estero.Nel documento di programmazione strategica dell’Ateneo 2018-2020 il programma Erasmus è promosso soprattutto attraverso l’incentivazione delle azioni di mobilità. Le azioni specifiche da adottare, quali la maggiore disseminazione degli eventi di promozione del programma Erasmus, il monitoraggio degli accordi Erasmus con le altre Università EU partner, focalizzando l’attenzione sugli accordi con sedi che offrono maggiori possibilità di interscambio, l’istituzione di premi per integrare il sostegno economico per gli studenti outgoing, sono state già realizzate nel 2018/2019. Altre azioni, quali regolamenti più semplici all’interno dei Dipartimenti e dei singoli Corsi di Studio, in modo da facilitare il riconoscimento dei CFU ottenuti dagli studenti all’estero o tempi più veloci per il rilascio del Diploma Supplement, sono al vaglio dei referenti didattici ed Erasmus.E’ stato inoltre incrementato il numero di docenti stranieri in visita, con finalità non solo didattiche o di formazione, ma per collaborazioni finalizzate a costruire percorsi formativi volti al rilascio di titoli congiunti, sotto forma di joint e double degrees, dottorati internazionali, dottorati in cotutela. Tra l’altro, la cotutela di tesi di dottorato potrebbe essere il primo passo per predisporre accordi internazionali per le scuole di dottorato, e permettere allo studente di ottenere il doppio grado di dottore presso una università straniera.Nell’anno accademico 2018/2019 hanno beneficiato della mobilità 63 studenti per studio, 23 studenti per traineeship, 9 staff per docenza, 11 staff per training. La mobilità degli studenti è aumentata rispetto al 2017/2018, soprattutto quella per traineeship; rimane costante la mobilità dello staff.

During the last years the University of Molise, which participates since 1992 to the Erasmus Programme, is doing its utmost to increase the numbers of mobility in supporting students, above all, to participate to the exchanges, even with particular attention to the quality and the recognition of credits.The many Erasmus promotional events have been decisive to increase the mobility of students, n.16 for traineeship reasons in the academic year 2014/2015 and n.21 in the academic year 2015/2016; n.29 for study reasons in 2014/2015 and n.36 in 2015/2016. This data appears to increase steadily in the next academic years; a strong consideration has been given to the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, with financial support to the programme through the so-called “Fund for supporting young people”; the University of Molise uses this subvention to increase the communitary grants or to create new scholarships. There is a general great personal satisfaction between the inbound and outbound, more than 90%, and a full recognition of the activities successfully achieved for 81,48% when editing the narrative report.Staff mobility is static, and does not record any change compared with the academic year 2014/2015.The strategic aim to internationalize the University by way of the educational experiences abroad, with new 33 inter-institutional agreements in 2016 and 188 partner Institutions in 25 Countries, has allowed to offer and support 45 requests of mobility; some withdrawals have been formalized after the publication of the Erasmus merit ranking for various reasons: economic, didactic or personal ones, that the University is analyzing so to propose solutions able to reduce the withdrawals in the next years.Spain and Poland are the more asked countries by our outbound and from whom the majority of inbound come; the reason is also the excellent number of agreements that the University of Molise has formalized with Institutions in the above mentioned countries.The role of the University of Molise in its territory is very ambitious: its presence and vitality on the educational plan, prevent from one part to the young people of the region and to their families financial sacrifices, for the few at present, so to obtain elsewhere a qualified education and useful to find a good job; from the other part, allow to catch a lot of undergraduate and graduate students from neighboring and not regions. The University of Molise appears today called to conduct the role of an Institution of reference and driving force on the social, economic, of the European and international relationships, and the fostering of a variegated, rich in resources region, but not so adequately spent.The Erasmus + partnerships could therefore be useful to transfer our mission and make available to the whole university community, to better the quality of learning outcomes of our students, and through cooperation in the sphere of research and professional development, to enhance its impact on society and represent a common strength even in the long period. One of the aims of our project is to train our students for the challenges in employment, in a golobalised context and which asks for always greater abilities; the mobility for traineeships represents therefore an advantage to develop the professional competencies and the learning possibilities, even the linguistic ones of our students.

Students and staff mobility is key in the internationalization policy of the University, as it is considered added value for the academic, as well as professional and cultural growth, and for the achievement of the goals set by Bologna Process. In a territory that has been affected not only by recent economic crisis, but that suffers the isolation from neighboring regions, too, mobility represent a great - and maybe the only - opportunity of growth for local students, for trying to fulfill their goals and hope in a better future as far as their access in the labour market is concerned. The project Erasmus Plus – KA1 is addressed to students who wish to study or do a traineeship period abroad, to teaching staff for performing teaching activities, to non-teaching staff for training purposes. The University of Molise promotes the mobility of all the said components, in the awareness that this is beneficial both for the Institution (e.g., acquisition of good practices and new learning material) and for the non-teaching staff , as it facilitates career advancements.In the academic year 2014/2015 the University has tried to increase the number of the individuals in mobility thanks to a more widespread diffusion all through the Degree Courses and by means of info days on occasion of the publication of notices of competition. The synergy between Erasmus Study Course Coordinators and the administrative office has been fundamental, in so far as it provided useful information both from the academic and administrative viewpoints, and to illustrate the academic offer of the foreign universities and all the aspects related to enrollment procedures. The ppt presentations used are later published on the University website so that all students get to have the basic info to participate to the program. Besides, the brand-new layout of the University website make this fruition even easier.During the meetings, former erasmus students are called to describe their mobility experiences and to give useful tips. In spite of all these initiatives, the number of students has decreased this year: this is certainly due to the low contribution, even with the integrations from the Ministerial funds. On the other hand, the number of the students in mobility for traineeship has increased: the University has also taken part to two different consortia to provide its students with a wider and more varied offer and give them the possibility to gain familiarity with the labour market in an international setting and acquire skills and expertise. In our view, the benefits of the erasmus program are relatable to the curriculum improvement (certified by the Europass mobility certificate), to the acquisition of self-confidence and the higher degree of accessibility to the labour market; some of our former erasmus students have been offered to keep working in the very organization that hosted them during the erasmus traineeship period. In general, they have declared to be more independent and inclined to face the labour market with their own vision and project ideas. Online language course have been very much appreciated by the students in general, even in consideration of the gap that was left by the suppression and later re-establishment of the University Language Center. The services offered to support mobility are several: assistance in administrative matters, online-available information, organization of a course in Italian for foreign Erasmus students, small price meal service, welcome days, housing and assistance services with the help pf local students associations, organization of social events, info booklets in English.

"The mobility numbers, 62 students for study reasons in 2016/2017, which is double respect to the academic year 2015/2016, is the result of a University strategy attentive to the internationalization themes and to the opportunities of mobility for its students and staff. The existing inter-institutional agreements have been stabilized and new ones formalized: 3 for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food, 5 for the Department of Bioscience and Territory, 4 for the Department of Human, Social and Education Sciences, 5 for the Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, 3 for the Department of Economics and 3 for the Department of Law.The ministerial subvention named ""Fondo sostegno giovani"" has been essential to pay a higher grant and help the students at zero grant to benefit from the Erasmus grant as well as the economically disadvanatged. The greater interest towards the international mobility and principally towards the Erasmus programme is also the change of an attitude few inclined to the globalization but that is changing in the last years; it is the awareness that the knowledge of one or more languages outer than the mother tongue, of different cultures and experiences grown up outside the regional standards, could be helpful for the future career and to reinforce the self awareness to be European citizens. The mobility for traineeship reasons, even if lower than that of the previous academic year (11 mobilities instead of 21 in 2015/2016), is in any case unchanged because the University participates at the Consortia Traineeship programme (Tucep, Explore) that has given the opportunity to other 10 students to enjoy the experience. The total data of the mobility, both for study and traineeship reasons, is very positive, it registers a rising trend that the University intend to stabilize and improve thanks to better in sed actions: implementation of periodic meetings of the Erasmus departmental coordinators and the Erasmus commissions,volvement of the Course Degree Presidents, the organization of Erasmus Days, the formalization of new inter-institutional agreements with European Institutions similar for size to the University of Molise and where it is simpler to organize the mobility, in increasing the grant, in a greater involvement of ex Erasmus students and Students' Associations for the services of welcome, asiistance and support in favour of the inbound."