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

Main reasons of the project:- Improving the quality of knowledge of the EU (especially the fundamental rights) through multidisciplinary approach and openness to the society;- Exiting from the crisis by strengthening the European integration in the field of fundamental rights; - Support the training of the PhD students and the young researchers; - Natural continuation and achievement of the JM Chair objectives;Objectives pursued:- Improving the quality of research and the innovation stimulation;- Strengthening the coherence between researchers, teachers and the teaching methods; - Providing training for students to better meet the needs of the labour market;- Boost networks already existing with those established in other Members States;- Facilitation of the external contacts with the EU institutions; - Promoting human rights and informing the general public of the practical possibilities opened by the EU;Realisation:- International conferences, seminars, round tables;- Publications series;- Open doors days; - Access to the European data;- Centre of Excellence on-line;- Usage of the different methods of the interactive learning: webinars, e-learning;- Cooperation with the representatives of the civil society (NGOs, other universities). Expected impact: - Attractiveness of teaching and research on the EU law field; - Strengthen cooperation at the regional, national and international level;- Closer links between the UWR and EU institutions; - Openness for the local entities and knowledge and culture dissemination of the fundamental rights; - Preparation of students for their future career and being active in the democratic society; - Access to the research findings for the general public, especially the groups at risk of exclusion;- Essential stage to consider establishment of the european doctoral studies (European doctor's degree in Law) and in the future, within the Erasmus + program, of the European Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies (including law and economics).

The goal of this project is to examine the functioning of representative democracy in crisis mode. Although the current COVID-19 pandemic and the sovereign debt crisis have been extensively analysed in numerous case studies, there is a gap in the literature regarding the functioning of representative democracy in extraordinary situations. This project addresses that gap by focusing on representative democracy (parliaments) at the domestic and supranational level. The project targets the following research questions: To what extent have the sovereign debt and the COVID-19 crisis affected representative democracy at the national and supranational level? Have these crises triggered decline, empowerment or maybe no change at all? Looking at formal and informal legislative, scrutiny and representative powers of parliaments, do we observe a similar or a different trend across both crises? Are the changes observed of a temporary or a permanent nature, namely, affecting the DNA of representative democracy in Europe?The thematic focus of the project is divided into two areas: institutional impact (impact of the crisis on institutional competences, practices and interinstitutional relations) and oversight of European economic governance (European Semester, rule of law mechanism). All the activities of this project are organised in three work-packages: WP-1 Teaching (modules delivered by the Chairholder and the team), WP-2 Europe Today (series of public events) and WP-3 Research Activity (academic research and workshops). There are three benefiting persons: the chairholder and two senior researchers. The expected result is an asymmetric impact of crises on representative democracy at the national and supranational level. The project produces the following outputs: new modules and international teaching staff (WP-1), public meetings promoting unbiased, quality debate on EU topics (WP-2) and academic cooperation generating cutting-edge research and publications (WP-3).

The TO BE THE BEST project, carried out by the U3A at the University of Wrocaw, addressed the needs of the organization in the development of international co-operation, as well as updating our knowledge of new teaching methods, including the use of ICT. It also allowed us to acquire new skills in promoting student integration. Ten participants, recruited from among the staff of the U3A at the University of Wroclaw, took part in a 10-day training session in London. During this training, the participants developed or acquired skills in three broad areas:1) Integration and social connectivity: - developing multicultural awareness and communication skills; - acquiring new skills and establishing informal international networks;- acquiring knowledge which can have an effect on the decision making of the participants and society in general, depending on their interests; - deeper understanding of the changes in European society, with its multicultural aspect;- understanding the meaning of diversity and discussing it in a rational and inoffensive way; - acquiring information on the subject of European integration, particularly of ethnic minorities.2) Courses in new teaching technologies; - understanding the importance of technology in teaching; - instruction on how to create Moodle e-learning modules (installation, technical details, adaptation to the learning space - appearance, blocks, themes, etc.); - using the Moodle platform: co-ordinating content, lesson structure and activities, assigning roles, registering students, creating groups, exercises in design, use of widgets and other media, etc.; - assessment and evaluation.3) Courses in new teaching methods; - acquiring new and extensive skills and finding new solutions in the modernization of teaching programs;- development of new and more effective teaching methods, raising standards, diversity and the quality of education;- teaching of traditional issues through artistic and practical activities;- gaining experience in engaging students in practical teaching mechanisms, through involvement in creative approaches which can be used in engaging students in creating films or animation based on historical events and planning a short theatrical presentation based on literature; - promoting business skills in students. Through the TO BE THE BEST project, the teachers and tutors had an opportunity to improve their language, interpretational and ICT skills. These skills have been onsorporated in the teachers' personal methods of engaging students, and have been passed on to their colleagues as well as the staff of other U3As in the region.

The University of Wroclaw has been participating in the Erasmus programme since 1989. In the academic year 2014/2015 the university began a project within the new edition of Erasmus+ programme. The main objective of the project was to achieve the goals contained within the European Policy Statement of the University as a further step of its internationalisation. The major goals included in the contact with the National Agency and in the Erasmus Charter, that were met, were:- to offer UWr students the opportunity to spend part of their studies at a partner university abroad- to enable UWr students a professional work placement at a company located in one of the programme countries- to enable both students and staff of UWr to learn from the experience of studying/working in the international environment thanks to our hosting a large number of incoming Erasmus students and staff - academic staff exchanges, which on one hand raised the level of the study programmes by including visiting international lecturers and on the other hand enabled our academic teachers to test their teaching and research skills in the international environment- to offer international training to the non-academic university staff - to increase language skills of the university students and staff to both those participating in Erasmus mobilities abroad and those who haven't gone abroad, by offering them in their everyday university life regular contact with international students and staff at UWr748 UWr students (bachelor, master, doctoral) took part in Erasmus mobilities in 2014/2015. There were 503 language but also social science and law students, who went for Erasmus studies (SMS) mainly to Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, France and Italy. The placements (SMP) concerned 245 student mobilities, including 44 graduates and took place mostly in Germany, Spain, UK, Czech Republic and Italy. The placements were the most popular among language, social science and biotechnology students.359 university staff members participated in Erasmus exchanges including:- 195 academic teachers (STA) mostly from the study fields such as language and philology, social science and law, went mostly to Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, France or Lithuania; - 164 staff training visits (STT, offered according to the university policy to the non-academic staff members). This kind of a mobility was offered as a priority to the staff involved in work for Erasmus mobilities and also staff working at the university language centres, libraries, financial units etc.. The most popular in this category were the universities or companies located in Italy, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Spain and Germany. The total number of the mobilities was 1107, which was 10 more than was planned in the project. The extra 10 were student placements.In the academic year 2014/2015 UWr had institutional agreements with 380 universities from 30 countries. The majority of partner universities were located in Germany, Spain, France, Turkey, Italy and the UK.Within the project the UWr hosted 369 international students (SMS) of the partner universities from 22 countries. They were usually students of humanities and social sciences recruited mostly from universities in Germany, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Czech Republic, France and Portugal. A number of the incoming students, after accomplishing their mobility, applied for the full time master studies in English offered at UWr.Additionally the University of Wroclaw received over 100 incoming staff members of both kinds (STA,STT). 25 of them took part in the Erasmus Staff Week organised by the International Office.Thanks to participation in the Erasmus project the UWr enriched its course catalogue in English. The incoming students could choose courses contained in 24 full degree programmes (BA and MA) offered in English, free of charge.The prospect of long-term benefits are the result of the international relations of the academic staff, who strengthened their scientific cooperation during the teaching visits (STA). On such occasions several new projects were created eg.: double degree master programme with I PADOVA01, study courses included in full degree programmes taught by the UWr teachers and PhD students (F RENNE02, LV RIGA08) , co-guardianship of PhD studies of UWr students (CZ PRAHA07, I NAPOLI01) The results of the projects were not only beneficial to the University as such, but first of all to the participants of all the kinds of mobilities. Through participation in the project both the students and the university staff members had, without doubt, a great opportunity to increase their language and interpersonal skills and to enrich their professional experience. Nevertheless the most valuable aspect of the Erasmus project was its international character, which definitely had a very positive impact on the participants, their perception of the world and the values of other cultures.