"University of Dubrovnik (UNIDU) joined the Erasmus program in the academic year 2010/2011. In that academic year UNIDU could only send its students and staff. In the first year UNIDU sent 8 students on SMS activity (studies mobility) and 6 staff members for the purpose of training (STT) or teaching (STA). In 2011/2012 (Croatia becomes a full member of the Erasmus program) UNIDU accepts incoming students and non-teaching staff. That year, UNIDU sent 16 students and 12 staff members, and received 14 students and a total of 24 people in staff training activities or teaching from its Erasmus partner institutions. In the past four academic years UNIDU gradually increased the number of incoming and outgoing mobility, and in 2014/2015 it send the total of 20 students (17 students for SMS and 3 students for SMP), 25 University staff members for STA and STT activities, while receiving 53 students (51 for SMS and 2 for SMP) and 39 people in the STT or STA activities. When comparing the first and last years of the program, UNIDU?s outgoing mobility of students has increased by 150%, outgoing mobility of non?teaching staff by 316.17%, incoming student mobility by 278.57% and incoming non-teaching staff by 62 , 50%. These results are not surprising given that the mobility of students and non- teaching staff has been recognized as an important strategic objective of the University of Dubrovnik (UNIDUs International Development Strategy 2009-2015). The following activities, undertaken by the offices and departments of the University certainly contributed to achieve a bow mentioned goal:- The introduction of the ECTS credit system and modes of study based on the Bologna Declaration, implemented by UNIDU in the academic 2004 /2005 year;- The improvement of infrastructure, opening of central building of the campus in 2012;- The introduction of courses in foreign language (mainly English) for incoming students - in 2014/2015 academic year University of Dubrovnik's foreign students were offered 69 courses in foreign languages;- The organisation of information events ?Office for International Relations every year actively promotes mobility opportunities for students, faculty and staff of the University;- The organisation of orientation week for new incoming students before the start of each semester;- The organisation of first STA and STT weeks in May and June 2015;- The extension of cooperation with universities within or outside the European Union (Turkey, Macedonia) - in 2014/2015UNIDU had a total of 74 Erasmus agreements in 24 countries.As noted, in the academic 2014/2015 UNIDU sent 17 students for SMS activity, of which one student had to give up after 50 days of mobility for reasons of force majeure, and 3 student were sent on SMP, of which one student dropped out after 4 days of mobility also for reasons of force majeure. If we exclude students who had to drop their mobility due to force majeure, the average duration of mobility for studies was 131.75 days, or 4.40 months for the purpose of professional practice 143.5 days, or 4.78 months. 23 students applied for SMS in 2014/2015, however, due to the limited resources only 17 students received financial support. Due to the new amounts of financial support along with the additional financial support for students of lower socioeconomic status (200 Eur per month) UNIDU had to seek additional funds from National Agency to cover all months of SMS. Of the total 35,327.81 EUR for SMS activity, UNIDU allocated a total of ? 34,827.00 (98.58%). During Erasmus + Information days, in March 2015, the IRO office conducted a survey to investigate the interest of student for mobility (pros and cons). 28 students completed the questionnaire. As a major obstacle to the mobility students cited the fact that the ""scholarship does not cover all living costs"", as a second obstacle they see ""finding accommodation in another country"", after that ""insufficient knowledge of languages"" and the ""fear of the unknown"". 25 students indicated that they are planning to apply for the next mobility Call. 3 students took part in SMP activity. One student returned earlier due to a force majeure, and from ? 6,120.00 UNIDU allocated to its students ? 4,702.00 or 76.83%. 1,418.00 remains unused in this activity. ? 15,708.00 UNIDU received to send 6 employees to the STA activity for total of 84 days, same for STT activity. 11 professors took part in STA activity for a total of 81 days. Surplus from this activity (? 3,333.00) was transferred to the STT activity. 14 staff members took part in STT activity, and the total duration of their mobility amounted 129 days. To close financial structure in this activity a transfer from the OS in the amount of 246.00 was made. The mobility of students, (non)teaching staff contribute to the better recognition of the University of Dubrovnik at the international level."

The University of Dubrovnik was founded in 2003 and internationalization and mobility were early identified as the main strategic goals of this young and small university. In 2004/2005 UNIDU implemented the Bologna Declaration and from the very beginning all its programs are taught in accordance with the Declaration. Since the academic year 2010/2011 untill today and based on the awarded Erasmus Charter, UNIDU fully participates in the Erasmus + program and its predecessors. The International Development Strategy of the University of Dubrovnik (2009-2015), the Institutional Development Strategy of the University of Dubrovnik from 2016 to 2025, and the most recent Strategy of International and Inter-Institutional Cooperation 2019-2025, are the documents in which internationalization stands out as one of the most important goals of the future development, and is strongly promoted through students and staff mobility. In addition to regular participation in the KA103 Calls, UNIDU has successfully implemented KA107 projects since 2015. so far, successfully cooperating with many universities from partner countries.In the KA107 2018. Project UNIDU is cooperating with 4 partner universities from 4 different countries: Serbia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Kenya. UNIDU has been granted with the 49.848,00 Eur for 14 incoming and outgoing student and staff mobilities under the Project. Finally, 14 mobilities have been realized in the Project, while funds for 2 mobilities were not spent due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.It is important to highlight some of UNIDU’s recent activities that contribute to the development of international cooperation on a larger scale:- adoption of the new strategic document: International and Inter-institutional Strategy 2019. - 2025.-the introduction and continuous increase in the number of courses taught in foreign languages, especially in those departments where such courses are lacking, resulting in more than 145 courses being offered in English in university departments;-the signing of new bilateral inter-institutional cooperation agreements and the extension of cooperation to new activities with some of the current partner institutions;-hosting international experts (conferences, workshops and lectures);-organizing a series of activities to promote international cooperation, various international programs/projects, etc. (info days for students and staff, the University of Dubrovnik Fair, roundtables, workshops, promotion in local / regional media);-organization of an Erasmus + week for (non) teaching staff from partner institutions-orientation week for foreign students before the beginning of each semester;-free Croatian language course for all incoming students, followed by a regular course at two levels (A1 and A2).The results of these activities are most visible in the increase in the number of realized mobility. In the next period, the University will continue its efforts to focus on the development of international activities with a special emphasis on the qualitative aspects of co-operation with partner institutions. UNIDU's further development will be seen through the introduction of new study programs taught in English language and attraction of the large number of foreign full-time students as well as the profiling of specific research guidelines that will ensure national and international recognition. In pursuing these goals UNIDU will continue to rely on Erasmus + but also on other European Commission programs.

The participating organizations will develop, implement, and test a training program to improve the entrepreneurial mindset and skills of high school and university students via the use of mindfulness-based self-leadership methods. The project is designed to yield three tangible outputs: a training manual, a guided video course, and a case report of best practices in implementing the course. Participating students will benefit from improved personal faculties, such as self-efficacy, self-awareness, and self-confidence, which drive entrepreneurial intentions, actions, and success.First, the partners will jointly develop a course manual comprised of a theoretical foundation on the methods employed as well as practical exercises for students to reflect on themselves, set goals, and plan their implementation. The course manual will be used to design and record a video course to help facilitate the presentation and delivery of the contents in the course manual. The addition of a video course will make the students' participation in the training a multisensory experience when compared to merely reading the manual, which has been shown to improve learning effectivity. Following the recording of the video course, the partner organizations will conduct a baseline assessment of their students' proficiency in self-leadership skills and entrepreneurial cognition and mindset. Afterwards, each organization will teach the course to their enrolled students and, then, repeat the assessment. The results will be compared to those of a wait-list control group. This allows conclusions to be drawn as to the effectiveness of the course material in training the skills and abilities that the course was designed to train. The organizations will engage in scientifically rigorous methods of analysis to explore whether a causal link between a participation between a student's participation in the training and an improvement in their personal entrepreneurial skills and mindset can be established. Each partner will create an individual case report on the experiences they acquired during the teaching of the course at their institution. These case reports will then be collated, compared, and conflated to form an overarching case study, which serves as guidance for third party organizations that wish to teach the developed course material to their students after this project is completed. The partners will meet in person several times over the course of the projects to exchange learnings and best practices acquired and to plan the implementation of upcoming milestones in detail.In the long term, the project will help students to become more responsible citizens by equipping them with the necessary tools, abilities, and cognitions to identify and pursue entrepreneurial ventures successfully. This can be done not only in the creation of standalone start-up companies, but also within the framework of established organizations which aim to drive innovativeness and have to rely on employees who possess the entrepreneurial spirit and skills. These skills to achieve success are further transferable to the implementation of a wide variety of personal endeavors in the realms of hobbies or passions, further fostering the students' feelings of self-efficacy and self-worth. Further, the course material will be made accessible for free to individuals across the globe, allowing them to prosper independent of their location. This, in turn, will prove beneficial not only for those participating students but also for society as a whole. Value creation in a more and more globalized and united economic context requires entrepreneurial action on both a personal and corporate level.

ONE-BLUE will provide an integrated assessment of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) and their impacts, will develop new monitoring tools, and will provide an advanced understanding of the combined effects of CECs and climate change (CC) on the different marine ecosystems and their biodiversity. The following objectives are defined: • Improve the current knowledge of the concentrations, profiles, fate, behaviour, and effects of CECs, in the different marine compartments and ecosystems through three case studies (Atlantic and Arctic oceans and the Mediterranean Sea) and develop safety guidelines and protocols for future CECs monitoring in marine ecosystems. • Provide an advanced understanding of possible interaction between CC and CECs in marine ecosystems with studies under controlled conditions in marine mesocosms. • Develop a database (DB), the CECsMarineDB, following FAIR principles, with a database management system (DBMS) to collect the data generated in ONE-BLUE and capitalize data from other projects and existing DBs. A graphical user interface (GUI) will be developed and used for data exploration and demonstration of the fate and behaviour of CECs in a changing environment. • Provide new solutions in support of the implementation of relevant EU policies; (i) a series of new approach methodologies (NAMs) to improve the ecotoxicity assessment of CECs in marine ecosystems; (ii) a tiered effect-directed approaches (EDA) combining toxicological assessment and chemical analysis; (iii) an advanced ultrasonic system for sampling and enrichment micro/nanoplastics from seawater; (iv) a remote autonomous sensor to assess CECs in marine waters in quasi-real-time; a decision support system (DSS) based on machine and deep learning strategies to assess and forecast combined effects of CC and CECs in marine ecosystems. • Disseminate the project results and establish the exploitation plan for the developed technologies.