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

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from/to third countries not associated to Erasmus+. 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.

University West (UW) recognizes the importance of international cooperation. Our ambition is to attain quality and multitude in our mobility activities in order to provide excellent possibilities for international experience and competence for both students and staff. We also strive to create a window in our programs to allow for a semester of studies or internship abroad. This is done to avoid an interruption in the studies and instead incorporate the foreign studies in their program outcome.Our focus is to build strong, qualitative and long-term relationships with European institutions within mutual subject areas as ours, with the intention to develop a variety of operational opportunities on educational and/or research level. These are qualities we look for when choosing partners. Thus UW strives for academically balanced Erasmus partnerships and encourages deeper and/or wider collaboration with those partner institutions that offer academic opportunities that matches our programs. We aim to be a reliable, valuable and trustworthy partner. In order to achieve this the Erasmus coordinator work closely with the departments with the aim to pinpoint a number of preferred partners per department that work exceptionally well so that there is one or a few well working partners for each program. The idea is to select preferred partners that we could find more cooperative combinations with, either more than one field of subject or in mutual projects, research etc. This way we believe it will be easier for the students to find well-working and reliable exchange opportunities and will hopefully also lead to closer cooperation and synergies on both sides. We encourage our departments to keep in contact and be informed of their partner universities and the collaborative intentions stated in the agreement well enough to know what exchange opportunities could be promoted to and used by both students and teaching staff, and to keep in contact and follow up on news. We hope by this to improve quality and increase the scope and multitude of our international cooperation with partners in order to create reliable partnerships with balanced and well used exchange flow for students and staff to benefit from. Our mobility objectives are targeted both towards incoming and outgoing students and staff. We have tried to grow our number of outgoing students by finding new ways to reach out to them. We arrange promotion activities over a larger period and with more varied time span than we managed earlier. This enables more students to participate and get information and motivation about exchange activities. We follow up constantly during the semester before application deadline so that the students can find support for their ideas for possible exchanges during preparation of the application. For this period mobility activities has been more visible throughout the campus and in class rooms. All these minor changes to how we used to work has led to a greater interest and awareness for Erasmus exchange.Our objective is to increase the number of outgoing students in order to give as many students as possible the chance to get international experience to better prepare them for a demand for international knowledge and experience on the job market. The number of outgoing students at UW is steadily raising and returning students help promote Erasmus exchange by sharing their experience with the new outbound students to be. Our main focus has been set to students in first cycle and will remain so. However, in the future we aim to increase relevant mobility opportunities for students in second and third cycle in order to add crucial international edge to research. As for staff, we have a group that go on regular exchange as guest professors to partner universities, which is a perfect proof for well-working cooperation. But we also wish to encourage those among the staff who have not yet tried exchange and wish to do so.We invite teachers from our partners to visit our campus in order to get to know UW and the opportunities we offer more in detail, and also to bring a taste of internationalization through guest lecturing and presentations to the students that for various reasons don´t take the opportunity to study abroad.

This project aims to develop a streamlined, one-step method for producing and applying high entropy oxide (HEO) coatings using solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) technology. This approach will bridge the gap between HEOs' remarkable laboratory properties and their practical applications, such as thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) for gas turbine engines. HEOs are a new class of ceramics where multiple metals, in equiatomic proportions, are randomly arranged on cationic sites within an oxygen anion lattice. The high configurational entropy of these multi-cation systems ensures excellent phase stability and advantageous thermo-physical properties. Research on processing HEOs via thermal spray for TBCs is currently limited due to difficulties in synthesizing high-quality HEO particles in sufficient quantities. Traditional methods produce nanoparticles that require further processing, which can be labor-intensive and may introduce impurities that affect the HEO properties. The SPPS method overcomes these challenges by using metal salt solutions as feedstock, which react in situ within the plasma to form and subsequently deposit metal oxides directly onto the substrate. This method simplifies the process and allows for greater control over the coating's microstructure, enhancing its properties. The project will take place at University West, Sweden, where SPPS expertise and infrastructure are available. A secondment at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Republic, will provide advanced deposition and characterization facilities. Additionally, a non-academic placement at Treibacher Industries, Austria, will offer industry experience and resources for commercializing the project. The researcher will gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge equipment, engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, and acquire insights into both academic and industrial applications, significantly benefiting their future career prospects.