Context/history: The recent establishment of joint research units (UMRs) in the field of health, with the labelling of major research organisations (CNRS, INSERM, IRD), testifies to the quality and excellence of transdisciplinary scientific research conducted at the University of La Réunion (UR). Indeed, in the field of health, two major areas are being developed: the first involves the link between chronic diabetes-inflammation and cardiovascular disease. This axis is developed within the UMR (INSERM) Detroit. The second axis involves vector-borne infectious diseases. This axis is developed within the UMR (INSERM, CNRS, IRD) PIMIT. The implementation of these studies is facilitated by the recent installation (in 2018) of an infectiology-Indian Ocean platform (PLATIN-OI, European funding). These two UMRs are associated with the Health UFR where training is provided strongly linked to these research themes of regional interest (Tropical Infectiology and Diabetes) through a Master's degree in Health Biology and a new Bachelor's degree in Science for Health (SPS) created in 2018. In symmetry, also multidisciplinary, the Lebanese University (UL) with its 70,000 students (50% of all Lebanese students) is the largest university in Lebanon and the only public university out of 28 in the country. Since its creation in 1951, UL has established strong links with French universities, because French is one of the official languages and therefore facilitates cooperation, and because Lebanon has naturally turned to France in its construction of a higher education system. Objectives : - organise many student mobilities, mainly as part of our training courses,- ensure the sharing of expertise and educational materials between partners,- initiate and then strengthen multiple research collaborations,- set up a double diploma.The number and type/profile of participants: Concerning student mobility: 5 UL students had the opportunity to participate in this program. The selected students have completed a Bachelor or Master 1 Biology at UL. Their mobility within the RU has enabled these students to follow the Master 1 and 2 Biology Health taught at the RU.Concerning staff mobility: 16 teaching mobility projects have been successfully completed. All the teaching teams of the two training courses (UL and UR) were able to participate in the teaching and selection of students. Results and impacts achieved: Three out of five students were classified as 1, 2 and 3eme masters and received research grants to start a thesis in the PIMIT and Détroi laboratories. These results reflect the quality of the exchanges and the pedagogical level of the selected students. The 4th student who followed this program was able to obtain a CIFRE thesis scholarship in metropolitan France. The 5th student is currently studying the Master 2 Health Biology with her own resources.The impact of the mobility project is twofold: first of all, of course, academic, but above all, this project has enabled research projects to emerge while taking advantage of the state-of-the-art equipment recently acquired by the RU laboratories. The academic impacts achieved are as follows:Strengthening and structuring of the RU's links with UL;Maintains in the Middle East the European vision of the higher education system;To give the opportunity to excellent students from the middle classes or even the disadvantaged to pursue their studies in Reunion Island under extremely favourable conditions, regardless of income or religion;To allow an improvement in UL training in its functioning and structure at Master level; this improvement will also benefit all UL students and not only those who have benefited from mobility through exchanges of teaching staff.Develop the dual degree offer;Strengthen the links between our teacher-researchers, and encourage the emergence of joint research projects in order to strengthen the research dimension of Lebanese higher education; this will enable Lebanese students to maintain a strong link with their country of origin and avoid the brain drain effect;Increase the visibility of the RU and therefore the value of our French diplomas among industrialists in the countries of the Near and Middle East (Gulf countries, etc.);Promote our programs and diplomas to these companies, which will de facto foster business-university links in Lebanon and France and should facilitate the employment of students in companies in the Near and Middle East;To make known to companies in the Near and Middle East the joint Franco-Lebanese research

"This international credit mobility project is the third one set up by the University of La Réunion (UR). As the only French and European institution in the Indian Ocean, UR has historically developed relationships and collaborations with its direct neighbors and therefore with non-European higher education institutions. The action ""international mobility of credits"" has therefore quickly become essential to develop the international strategy of the UR, one of whose objectives is to strengthen its regional and international influence by playing a major role as an ambassador of French and European Higher Education and Research (ESR) in the Indian Ocean area (IOA), through its missions of production, transmission and promotion of its knowledge and know-how. In addition, these MIC projects allow to finance old and quality collaborations which were penalized until now by the limited resources available.This 2018 project brings together 4 ""country projects"": Madagascar, South Africa, India (belonging to the ZOI, a strategic priority area of the UR's international policy) and Morocco. Of course the four projects were very heavily disrupted, if not completely stopped, starting in March 2020. We had to declare 23 force majeure (CFM) Covid-19, and many planned mobilities could not take place, which obviously had consequences on the results obtained.- MADAGASCAR: Initially consisting of two sub-projects, with two historical partners: the Institut supérieur technologique d'Antananarivo (IST-T), and the Université Catholique de Madagascar (UCM). At the end of the project, this project integrated a third partner: the University of Antananarivo (UA).The relationship between the UR and these three institutions is long-standing and collaborations already exist. The main objective was to develop the mobilities of Malagasy students to reinforce the professionalization and the excellence of their training and eventually develop the potential of professors at doctoral level in Madagascar. To reach these objectives 51 student mobilities were realized (46 planned) and 27 staff mobilities (against 4 planned): Despite the difficulties linked to the COVID pandemic this project brought very satisfactory results that we will develop later.- SOUTH AFRICA:UR and Tshwane University of technology (TUT) were already partners before this project dedicated to the field of agribusiness. Two separate teams from each institution took part in this project. One team was linked to TUT and the other to ESIROI, the UR's engineering school. ESIROI was already collaborating with the TUT in a France-South Africa research program (Hubert Curien Program). The IUT was also already familiar with the TUT, with whom it had shared research projects. The quality of these previous collaborations made the two teams want to strengthen them by developing them on the side of doctoral training on common research themes. Another objective was to offer TUT and UR students from disadvantaged backgrounds an international experience. Finally 3 student mobilities were realized (against 12 planned) and 6 staff mobilities were realized (against 8 planned).- INDIA: The project between Parvatibai Chowgules College of Goa (PCCG) and UR was born out of the meeting between a UR law teacher-researcher and a PCCG PhD student the year before the application. The objective was to develop the international dimension between these two institutions of the ZOI, and to develop mainly mobilities centered on the doctoral schools of humanities and social sciences of each institution in order to share good practices in terms of research training through research. To achieve these objectives, the institutions have carried out two student mobilities (compared to 4 planned) and 5 staff mobilities (compared to 8 planned) in both directions.- MOROCCO:Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) of Marrakech and UR (more specifically its engineering school, ESIROI) decided to collaborate following already existing relationships between teacher-researchers of both institutions. Their project is based on their common desire to improve the quality of their engineering training in agri-food. The objective was to innovate their respective training curricula by integrating and applying project-based or problem-based learning (PBL) methods. The development strategy chosen was based on the training-research continuum. At the end of the project, a new partner institution was added, the Hassania School of Public Works, to allow a student from this institution to come and do an internship in a UR laboratory, thus allowing a better use of the budget allocated for this project."

"The University of Reunion island is a French institution of higher education and research located in the heart of the Indian Ocean in one of the outermost regions of Europe.Thanks to the Erasmus + project, we aim to become the European reference university on the Africa-Asia axis by implementing three strategic objectives. The first aims to develop a culture of international relations. Like a culture of establishment that we want both consensual and ambitious, the culture of international relations that we build will go through a strengthening of our internationalization capabilities to support a substantial increase in mobility of our students and our staff.The second objective seeks to promote the University of Reunion island brand through a targeted training and research offer and using relevant tools. If the university wishes to position itself as the leading French and European university in the Indian Ocean, this means first and foremost the construction of a training and research offer that must be relevant to the promising sectors in the region (energy, information and communication, health, etc.) and future themes (climate, protection of biodiversity, etc.). The offer must also be collaborative, innovative and conducive to the integration of international research networks, or even the installation of international chairs (UNESCO). Second, by creating a network of ambassadors with promotional tools for students and partners, which requires interaction with institutional actors.The third and final objective is to contribute to the construction of an indianoceanic space of higher education, research and innovation through university diplomacy. If we want to see the implementation of large-scale projects to position the university as a training and research operator for the development of the Indian Ocean zone (""Erasmus OI"", federative university of the Indian ocean), this requires the development of a university diplomacy. This must be expressed as part of a strengthening of institutional relations with universities in the Indian Ocean area (project to create a permanent ESIR-OI Conference) but also with the operators of diplomatic action, particularly in the context of the Africa-Asia axis and with organizations such as the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). In addition, collaboration in the construction of an indianoceanic space for higher education and research must be considered from a public-private angle, through the development of partnerships with export or multinational companies.The mobility project is managed by the Direction of International Relations (DRI), which is led by the Vice President in charge of International Relations and Regional Cooperation. The university is committed to ensuring a high quality and individualized reception of all incoming Erasmus + students, thanks in particular to significant human resources: the manager dedicated entirely to the Erasmus project, the other staff of the DRI solicited during the student arrival campaigns, student tutors recruited in total for 450 hours per academic year. First of all, we offer a welcome as soon as students arrive at the airport and then a personalized follow-up by the DRI staff and the tutors. We have 63 rooms for our incoming students at the international city which offers among the best student rooms of the CROUS. We also assist students in their search for private housing. This voluntarist policy results in good rates of satisfaction of incoming students in terms of reception and accommodation and integration into the local life, measured by feedback survey initiated as part of a quality approach.The University of Reunion has been a beneficiary of an Erasmus + higher education mobility project since 1989. Our 2016 project amounts to € 501,150. 117 students have benefited from a mobility, 82 for studies and 35 for a traineeship. The majority of our students go to an English-speaking country and Spain to improve their language level. However, we seek to diversify our partnerships and generally accept exchanges for which we receive more students than we send. The university is particularly attentive to select motivated students of a good academic level and with a sound professional project. Our staff carry out teaching assignments in various fields and in a growing diversity of countries."

The University of La Reunion is a French institution of higher education and research, in the heart of the Indian Ocean, in one of the outermost regions of Europe. The international strategy of the university of La Reunion comes in five aspects: 1- Fully integrate the university in the European research sector. 2- Encourage the emergence of a network of researchers in the Indian ocean area. 3- Increase inbound and outbound student mobility. 4- Federate the international projects of our faculties and laboratories. 5- Strengthen the educational cooperation.From its original geo-strategic position, it is the only European university in this region. As such, the University of La Reunion is working to better anchor itself in the European Research field, and to fully participate in international exchange programs like ERASMUS, ISEP and BCI which expand employability prospects of its students. Our project is managed on one side by the International Relations Office (DRI), which is the only one for the whole university; and on the other side by a teacher identified as a relay of international relations in each faculty. The DRI is led by the vice president in charge of international relations and, excluding the House of Languages and the Confucius Institute, has 4 full time administrative staff, 3 of which are working fully or partially on the Erasmus project: the agent in charge of the project, the engineer specialized in international relations and the administrative manager of the DRI. The university of La Réunion is committed to provide a high quality and individual welcome to all incoming students who accept it. It is accomplished thanks to our devoted human resources: an agent fully dedicated to Erasmus, other members of the staff can help during student arrivals and tutors recruited for a total of 450 hours per academic year.Our office opens earlier in August and January than other services to ensure a high quality reception for foreign students. We ask each of our incoming students if they want our help to find accommodation. For those who express the need, we will first offer a personal welcome upon arrival at the airport. The staff and tutors will then support them through their administrative procedures. We have an agreement with the local CROUS to book 63 rooms for our incoming students in the international building that offers some of the best student rooms. The DRI is also in line with private providers: AMI, MGOI, Residence des facs and individual owners. We also assist students with their search for accomodation on the web. As a consequence, our incoming students have generally expressed their satisfaction of reception, accommodation and integration in daily life in our university.The university of La Réunion is the beneficiary of a mobility project for higher education under the Erasmus and Erasmus + programmes since 1989. In 2015/2016, among its 9,752 students undergraduate, 115 were able to benefit from a mobility, among which 88 for studies and 27 for an internship, which represents approximately 1% of our undergraduate population. The number of outgoing students has been steadily increasing in recent years. For the first time, three teachers were in charge of developping new partnerships during a short trip abroad. Their travel expenses were financed by Mobility organisation credits. The University strongly encourages its students to participate in the Erasmus project, and if possible over a long period of time. Thus, the average duration of mobility for studies has increased and is now more than seven months and the average for mobility for placements has also increased and is more than 3 months.Our first two destinations are Spain (40% of our students) and English speaking countries (less than 40%). According to the increased numbers of mobilities and the high level of satisfaction with the overall mobility experience, the university of La Réunion has managed to promote mobility among its students. The most significant impacts on learning outcomes are on the level of understanding of different cultures, cooperation with people from different backgrounds, independence, ability to solve problems, self confidence and self-knowledge.