"The Agricultural Academy (AA) applied for a mobility project for higher education, training and staff in the beginning of February, 2017.The project proposition was approved by the Bulgarian National Agency (The Human Resources Development Center) and a contract for financial support was signed between the Agency and the Agricultural Academy on the 07.07.2017. The first training mobilities for staff from the AA started in March, 2018. The mobilities were for a group of scientists from the Agricultural Institute in Stara Zagora (part of the Agricultural Academy) and the training took place in the Institut de l’elevage in Paris, France. The National Agency had approved for this project 95 outgoing educational mobilities for staff with total duration of 663 days and 8 outgoing mobilities for studies and traineeships for students with total duration of 24 months.The main objectives of the project, set by the Governing board of the AA, were the following:• To increase the inflow of scientific and educational knowledge into the structural units of the AA in order to improve the level of key competences and skills;• To strengthen the scientific and educational cooperation between the AA and its current partner organizations from Europe;• To begin new partnerships with other leading educational and scientific organizations from Europe;• To enhance the employability of students and staff from the AA and to improve their career prospects;• To broaden the understanding of innovative educational and scientific practices of the participating students and staff;• To increase the awareness of students and staff from the AA to the ""Erasmus+"" Programme and the different project opportunities it offers.• To improve the language competences of the participating students and staff.Just as in the previous three years, the possibility for participation in educational mobilities met with great interest from the academic and administrative staff of the AA.The mobilities for staff took place in different reputable HEIs and Research institutions, like the Institut de l’elevage, the University of Padova, the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, the Politechnical Institute in Beja, Portugal, the Wageningen university in Holland, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria, etc.Like mentioned above, the demand was greater than the supply. To assure that only personal with the best work programmes and highest motivation participate in trainings, the Agriclutural Academy developed an internal application procedure, which was posted on the institutional web site and was sent to every Erasmus coordinator of the different institutes. Although the procedure was open to every personal from the Academy, the emphasis was put on younger scientists who haven't participated before in trainings abroad.The evaluation of the applications was done by a committee from the Academy, using clear and non-discriminatory indicators. Almost all of the mobilities, which took place in this project, were outbound staff mobilities for training. The personal, which participated in them, was either academic or administrative. Only two student mobilities took place for the period of approximately 2 months each. The main reason was the fact that the grant support for students did not include funding for transport and the students, who have applied for mobilities could not find additional finances. Also the monthly project funding for a student in most of the programme countries is insufficient to cover all of their expenses and the Academy did not have the possibility to co-finance their training. This is a lasting issue from the previous year, which the Academy will try to remedy in order to increase the number of its student mobilities.Due to the nature of the AA, the range of the performed activities was mainly in the field of the agricultural science. However, these include very broad and different educational fields – plant and animal genetics, soil sciences, agro-economics, plant growing, animal husbandry, rural development, viticulture and enology, etc.The types of undertaken activities were different but include mainly skill training, job shadowing, attendance at lectures, visits of libraries, laboratories and other scientific and educational premises, field observation, familiarization with modern equipment and research and education methods, meetings and discussions on current research and educational innovations, direct participation in research and education, discussing future collaboration, preparation of papers, etc."