Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is part of the global community of universities. Guided and informed by excellence standards, it continuously expands research collaborations with universities and institutions worldwide. In order to ensure that its research and education remain competitive on an international level in the years to come, it is essential to be fully integrated into a global network of universities and research institutes. In the course of the university’s internationalisation, it aims specifically at enabling its students, researchers and other members of staff to gather international and intercultural experience at an early stage in order to significantly improve their chances in the globalised labour market and to consistently increase the quality of research and education by actively involving RUB academics into the international research landscape. Funding international mobility is a cornerstone on the agenda of the RUB’s strategic internationalisation objectives pertaining to the internationalisation of teaching. The Erasmus+ project 2017 made an important contribution to this through exchange activities with international partners worldwide, in addition to those in the funding line with partners in programme countries (KA 103). Both in student and staff mobility, stays of members of the RUB's partner institutions at RUB (incoming mobility) and stays of RUB members in partner countries (outgoing mobility) were successfully implemented in the course of the project. Within the project, two RUB students spent one semester studying abroad, two members of faculties taught abroad, and one person took part in training and further education programmes at partner universities in Argentina, Israel, Russia and the USA. In addition, RUB hosted three exchange students for one semester, two lecturers, and five people taking part in training and further education courses, who came from partner universities. Prior to all mobility activities, inter-institutional agreements were signed with all partner universities, drawn up by the RUB’s International Office (IO) in collaboration with the IOs resp. the authorised offices at the partner universities. Professional assistance on the administrative and service level ensured the high quality of the exchange scheme.During their semester abroad, all students attended various classes, often in addition to language courses in the national language and/or in other foreign languages at the universities’ language departments/centres. The course selection for studying abroad was stipulated in learning agreements and amended in the event of changes. The first days were orientation days, during which administrative topics such as university system, insurance, registration at university, opening a bank account etc. were covered, the university was presented, and discipline-specific information and information on final course selection and enrolment were provided. Additional assistance was supplied by student buddies or guides, who answered the mobility participants’ questions regarding studies and student life at the host university. Before, during and after the project participants’ mobility phase, it was primarily the International Offices/Office of International Academic Affairs/Office of Study Abroad/Welcome Centre at the partner universities and at RUB that provided comprehensive administrative support and looked after the participants. Departmental and exchange coordinators at the faculties/institutes contributed greatly to the high quality of supervision and support at the universities. They were in charge of answering all discipline-related questions and collaborated closely with colleagues at the partner universities, in order to ensure best possible supervision of both the outgoing and incoming participants.As a result with long-term effects, collaboration with the US partner institution Central Michigan University (CMU) and the one with the partner university in Argentina, Universidad Nacional de San Juan (UNSJ), has been intensified. At present, a study abroad track for graduate (master’s) students at both universities is being set up in collaboration with the CMU, in the course of which students will be spending one semester studying at the respective partner university. Moreover, a joint MA/PhD programme is being developed with the aim of enabling students to obtain a degree from both universities.After the funding of the bi-national master’s programme “Applied Geothermics” (German-Argentinian university networks) in collaboration with UNSJ has been recently approved, it will soon be possible to jointly train master’s students and generate joint graduates.