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

Centrale Nantes emphasizes on the European openness and more widely on the international openness in the center of its development policy. This development policy relies on 3 fundamental pillars: Education/ Research/ Industry with whom Centrale has been built.Thanks to this obvious and rational policy, over the last 20 years, Centrale Nantes’ attractiveness among the international students has considerably increased and expanded. Every year, Centrale Nantes welcomes more than 500 international students from more than 70 nationalities, corresponding to 30% of the student enrolment among the degree seeking Program ( Double Degree, Master in English or PhD) and exchange mobilities (Studies or Internships). Likewise, to get a Centrale Nantes Degree, 100% of the engineering students, benefit from a mandatory international mobility in their curriculum (Double Degree, Exchange Mobility, or Internship in company abroad) for a medium length of 7,5 months. Among the annual 850 students mobilities (incoming and outgoing), 60% belong to inter-institutional agreements and consortium projects. Moreover, academic, teaching and research staffs have strongly increased and supported this overall internationalization process.The main objective of Centrale Nantes’ contribution to the Program is the recognition and the valuation of the excellence of its training and its research at the international level. Thanks to the support that the Program has brought to the partnerships and to the international student and staff mobility, Centrale Nantes is now optimizing its tools and organization, improving the quality and the international relevance of its trainings and raising itself to the level of the best Higher Education Institutions.For Centrale Nantes, the Program stands as an accelerator of progress, of academic innovation and of attractiveness. It is indeed thanks to the permeability and the confrontation with other academic cultures that institutions manage to optimize their functioning, their governance, their teachings and their research. In this way, the students and staff’s international mobility develops capacities of adaptation and opening, and constitutes an asset for their employability and their careers. In this spirit, Centrale Nantes contributes in the modernization, in the internationalization and in the brilliance of the European Higher Education, pursues its missions and plays its role in the society.Therefore, on the basis of experience with KA103 projects and international projects such as (Erasmus Mundus), the KA107 fits this strategy and this context. Thus 65 student mobilities and 16 staff mobilities have been undertaken in order to strengthen mobility flows with partner countries: Lebanon (16), Morocco (16), Kazakhstan (18), Japan (21).To ensure the quality and the impact of these international mobility flows, the Direction of the International Relations at Centrale Nantes has set up a strong student and staff support process.To ensure a qualitative follow-up of the international mobility flows, Centrale Nantes has set up a support system of the students, in 3 stages:- Before mobility: a team of educational tutors for advising on the choice of destinations; the institutional international week; sharing of experience meetings; information meetings.- During mobility: bi-monthly follow-up questionnaires and their analysis.- After mobility: alumni follow-up and implementation of index card testimoniesThe quality and robustness of the project builds on strong ties between Centrale Nantes, the coordinator of the project and its partners institutions. The coordinator remains in constant contact with all the partners. Tools such as powerpoint presentations and tutorials for each step of the mobility are spread and pictures are regularly sent to the partners. In addition, applicants’ recruitment is done in cooperation with the partner institutions thanks to visits or video-conferences. Thus, meetings occur (at Centrale Nantes and in the Partners Country institutions) to discuss, to improve the mechanisms for cooperation and to ensure their sustainability.

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.

Centrale Nantes emphasizes on the European openness and more widely on the international openness for its development policy, which relies on 3 fundamental pillars: Education/ Research/ Industry.Thanks to this rational policy, over the last 20 years, Centrale Nantes’ attractiveness among the international students has considerably increased and expanded.Every year, Centrale Nantes welcomes more than 850 international students, representing 87 nationalities on campus and corresponding to 42% of the student enrolment among the degree-seeking Program (Double Degree, Master in English or PhD) and exchange mobilities (Studies or Internships). During the last 15 years, the attractiveness of the academic programs of Centrale Nantes have been reinforced thanks to the development of 18 Masters' specialization totally taught in English and thanks to the coordination/participation of 6 KA1 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD). Likewise, to get a Centrale Nantes Degree, 100% of the engineering students benefit from a mandatory international mobility in their curriculum (Double Degree, Exchange Mobility, or Internship in a company abroad) for a medium length of 7,5 months. 60% of the student mobility (incoming and outgoing) belong to inter-institutional agreements and consortium projects. Moreover, academic, teaching and research staffs' mobility have strongly increased and supported this overall internationalization process.The main objective of Centrale Nantes’ contribution to the Program is the recognition and the upgrading of the excellence of its training and its research at the international level. Thanks to the support that the Program has brought to the partnerships and to the international student and staff mobility, Centrale Nantes is now optimizing its tools and organization, improving the quality and the international relevance of its trainings and raising itself to the level of the best Higher Education Institutions.For Centrale Nantes, the Program stands as an accelerator of progress, of academic innovation and of attractiveness. It is indeed thanks to the permeability and the confrontation with other academic cultures that institutions manage to optimize their functioning, their governance, their teachings and their research. In this way, the students and staff’s international mobility develops capacities of adaptation and opening, and constitutes an asset for their employability and their careers. Thus, Centrale Nantes contributes in the modernization, in the internationalization and in the influence of the European Higher Education, pursues its missions and plays its role in the society.Therefore, on the basis of experience with KA103 projects and international projects such as (Erasmus Mundus and the previous KA107 project), this KA107 project fits this strategy and this context. Thus 33 student mobility and 4 staff mobility have been undertaken in order to strengthen mobility flows with partner countries:Kazakhstan (5), Liban (13), Maroc (15) et Ukraine (4).To ensure the quality and the impact of these international mobility flows, the Direction of the International Relations at Centrale Nantes has set up a strong student and staff support process.To ensure a qualitative follow-up of the international mobility flows, Centrale Nantes has set up a support system of the students, in 3 stages:-Before the mobility: a team of educational tutors for advising on the choice of destinations; the institutional International Week; sharing of experience meetings; information meetings.-During the mobility: follow-up by the Masters' Heads, meetings with the International Relations Office team.-After mobility: end-of-mobility questionnaire, alumni follow-up, dissemination of the impacts and results, implementation of index card testimonies.The quality and robustness of the project builds on strong ties between Centrale Nantes and the partners’ institutions. The coordinator remains in constant contact with all the partners. Tools such as powerpoint presentations and tutorials for each step of the mobility are spread and pictures are regularly sent to the partners. In addition, applicants’ recruitment is done in cooperation with the partner institutions thanks to visits or videoconferences. Thus, meetings occur (at Centrale Nantes and in the Partners Country institutions) to discuss, to improve the mechanisms for cooperation and to ensure their sustainability.

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.