Dado que la vigencia del proyecto abarca la duración de dos cursos académicos, se han incluido movilidades de estudiantes para la realización estudios y de personal en formación correspondientes al curso 2018-19 y movilidades de estudiantes para la realización de prácticas y de personal para docencia que han ejecutado sus movilidades en los cursos académicos 2018-19 y 2019-20. El proyecto incluye, por lo tanto, movilidades de estudiantes para la realización de estudios y prácticas, movilidad de personal para docencia y movilidad de personal para formación. El programa Erasmus+ sigue siendo el programa de actividades internacionales más importante en nuestra institución, el que permite la movilidad de estudiantes y de personal docente y administrativo tanto entrante como saliente. Erasmus+ ofrece a nuestros estudiantes la oportunidad de disfrutar en muchos casos de su primera experiencia de estudios en una universidad extranjera, siendo también para muchos de ellos la primera vez que viven fuera de su domicilio familiar, lo que es posible gracias al apoyo económico que representa la ayuda procedente del programa, así como de otras fuentes públicas o privadas que los beneficiarios puedan percibir. En lo que se refiere a la movilidad de estudiantes para la realización estudios, la mayoría de los centros de la Universidade de Vigo han participado en la oferta presentada a nuestros estudiantes y se han incrementado el número de acuerdos interinstitucionales firmados con el fin de favorecer la participación del estudiantado en el programa. Un total de 496 estudiantes se han beneficiado de las movilidades en el marco del mismo, superando el 100 % del presupuesto recibido para esta actividad.La movilidad de estudiantes para la realización de prácticas, que siempre ha sido también una movilidad destacada en el marco del programa Erasmus, se ha visto reducida en este proyecto debido a la situación provocada por el COVID19 durante el curso 2019-20. Un total de 27 estudiantes se beneficiaron de esta acción con este proyecto. Esta reducción en el número de movilidades se plasmó ya a la hora de elaborar el informe intermedio por lo que se ejecuta la financiación recibida en esta acción casi al 100 %. Considerado un aspecto destacado de su formación, la movilidad de prácticas despierta el interés de nuestro estudiantado y les proporciona las competencias necesarias para incorporarse al mundo laboral y trabajar en una sociedad globalizada. Esta movilidad está abierta a estudiantes de todas las áreas de estudio y todos los niveles, si bien intentamos promover una mayor participación de estudiantes de máster y doctorado. En muchos casos, además, estos períodos de prácticas permiten una incorporación al mercado laboral de manera inmediata tras la finalización de los mismos. La movilidad de personal tanto para docencia como para formación representa una actividad crucial en el marco de la estrategia internacional de la Universidade de Vigo en línea con los objetivos del Programa. El personal docente de la Universidade de Vigo muestra un gran interés en cada convocatoria lo que se traduce en una alta participación en el programa. En este proyecto se han justificado un total de 81 movilidades. Al igual que en el caso de las movilidades de prácticas, el impacto derivado del COVID19se ha dejado notar también en el número de movilidades realizadas en esta acción. Las convocatorias permiten la participación de docentes de todas las áreas del conocimiento, estableciendo como prioritarios, a aquellas personas que no hubiesen disfrutado previamente de otra estancia Erasmus, y considerando especialmente a las que hayan adquirido un compromiso añadido relacionado con el programa, como la impartición de docencia en inglés, siguiendo el Plan de Internacionalización lingüística de la Universidade de Vigo o los tutores de estudiantes Erasmus, tal como se ha venido haciendo en ediciones anteriores, dado que, todo ello contribuye a una mayor calidad de los intercambios de estudiantes entre las instituciones del Programa. Como elemento diferenciador, en este proyecto se ha promovido una participación más diversificada entre los diferentes destinos y flujos de movilidad. La movilidad de personal en formación se llevó a cabo antes de la aparición del COVID19, así se ejecutó en su totalidad con respecto a la solicitud presentada. La convocatoria se ha dirigido especialmente al personal de administración y servicios de la Universidade de Vigo, para ofrecerles mayores posibilidades de formación en el extranjero.Nuestro proyecto de movilidad ha tenido un alto impacto en las personas beneficiarias, con porcentajes de satisfacción superiores al 90 % y mejora sustancial de sus competencias y habilidades, así como el refuerzo de la cooperación interinstitucional, contribuyendo con ello a cumplir con las prioridades de la Carta Erasmus+ y de Agenda Renovada para la Modernización del Sistema Europeo de Educación Superior.

The project approved in the Universidade de Vigo has been focused on the mobility of students and teaching staff with two Chinese institutions: Xiamen Universtiy and Ocean University of China.The applicaton submitted in the 2015 call for proposals, in relation to this program, included other geographical areas. However, the only action accepted was the one with this country.The International Relations Office, the unit responsible for the management of the Erasmus+ program, submitted the approved project with China in close collaboration with Campus do Mar , Campus of International Excellence at the Universidade de Vigo.There are two reasons why China has been chosen as an associated country. First of all, because it is a priority country, as it is stated in the Universities’ Internationalization Strategy of the Universidade de Vigo. Secondly, because the Campus of International Excellence has selected in its program of External Projection these two Chinese institutions, taking into account its large marine research capacity and the limited interaction that, at the time of the application of these aids, there were between the marine research institutions of China and the Campus do Mar.The two Asian institutions have been collaborating with Campus do Mar since 2012. In this year, the Head of Campus do Mar and the Head ot the International Area of this Campus of Excellence visited both institutions within their External Projection program.The objective of the project was to further strengthen these cooperation links. To achieve it, the first teaching staff and students mobilities between the Universidade de Vigo and the two associated institutions were performed thanks to the funding that the Erasmus+ first call has provided. In the case of students, this action has allowed the PhD students exchange, whose thesis projects are related to the research lines of the Marine Sciences, Technology and Management PhD programe. This programe was developed by Campus do Mar with the participation of six universities -three from Spain and three from Portugal-, as well as, the Spanish Oceanographic Institute and the Spanish National Research Council.This cross-border and multidisciplinary program covers marine and maritime studies tackled from different areas and included in its 66 research lines.The program has allowed that, for the first time, PhD students of the University of Vigo could make exchanges with China in the framework of a mobility program.In the case of teaching staff mobilities, they had to present some projects related to the research lines of the Campus do Mar doctoral program to be admitted by the respective parties. Professors that came to the Universidade de Vigo gave lectures to PhD students of this program.As third cycle students and teachers have been displaced, the program has allowed to further strengthen the collaboration between the three institutions.

This KA107 project has been implemented with institutions from China, Cape Verde, Kazakhstan and Vietnam. The project includes various objectives, adapting to each of the different geographical areas and to the needs initially identified by the partners and included in the previously signed interinstitutional agreements.China and Cape Verde were chosen as partners due to the fact they were considered as priority countries as described in the UVigo Internationalisation Strategy, and since they were selected by the Campus do Mar in its External Projection programme, taking into account their Emerging capacity in marine research. The UVigo Campus do Mar, Campus of International Excellence, establishes cooperation with Portuguese-speaking African countries as a priority in its internationalisation and teacher improvement plan. Thus, cooperation has been collaborating since 2012 with the University of Cape Verde at different levels, carrying out joint activities in training and at the institutional level, contributing to the progress and enrichment of the internationalisation strategy of both universities. Likewise, the collaboration maintained within the framework of the project in 2016 has allowed us to continue strengthening ties between our institutions, through the execution of mobility flows for staff and for students in the field of marine sciences. Similarly, the UVigo has developed an extensive collaboration with the University of Xiamen and the Ocean University of China, universities which with it has participated in the three previous calls, and thanks to which close links have been generated between the research groups in the multidisciplinary framework of the research lines of the Campus do Mar.Likewise, and in order to expand UVigo's internationalisation strategy, it was decided to include Vietnam in this project, after the good experience gained with different Vietnamese universities through previous projects within the framework of the Erasmus + programme. Thus, and in line with the Vietnamese national objective of accelerating the application of ICT, a series of priorities aligned with the UVigo DocTIC doctoral programme have been established, together with the three participating universities, and an ad hoc program has been designed for its implementation during the execution of the mobilities, called DocTech-VN.The Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages ​​of Kazakhstan, as a participating university in the Bologna process, has been part of numerous international projects. The internationalisation strategy of this Kazakh university is aligned with that of the UVigo in the pursuit of the development of the mobility curriculum among the members of its university community, making it a strategic partner for cooperation within the framework of this project. UVigo's relationship with the Kazakh country dates back to its previous participation in other multilateral projects in other areas also under the Erasmus + programme.The expected mobility flows have been severely affected by the incidence of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the extension granted for the execution of the project, the duration of the pandemic at the global level and the harsh measures imposed on mobility in the countries of the participating institutions have prevented a large part of the approved flows from being carried out. In some cases, restrictions for both outgoing and incoming mobility, are still in force today in countries such as China or Vietnam. Additionally, at the end of 2019 a new university was created in Cape Verde, the Universidade Técnica do Atlântico, which meant the splitting of studies in the maritime field so far present at the partner University of Cape Verde, which was an added difficulty to the already caused by the evolution of the pandemic in partner countries.Thus, the mobilities within the framework of this project have been carried out with Kazakhstan before the outbreak of the pandemic, in the case of student mobility, and once mobility restrictions were relaxed in the case of staff mobility to the Universidade de Vigo.However, close contact has been maintained with all participating universities during the life of the project, which has allowed continuity of cooperation for participation in future initiatives and projects, despite the fact that due to force majeure there has not been possible to implement the mobility as initially proposed, so it is worth highlighting the cooperation experience in the framework of the Erasmus + KA107 programme as very positive for the development of the internationalisation strategies of all the partner universities participating in the project and for the strengthening of ties cooperation from the point of view of innovation and academic cooperation.

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.