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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-1-CZ01-KA103-023639
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Learning Mobility of Individuals | Higher education student and staff mobility within programme countries Funder Contribution: 166,250 EUR

Higher education student and staff mobility project

Description

Educa consortium provides Erasmus+ traineeships for Czech universities. The consortium includes 10 members. The most successful University is the CZU, where the amount of mobilities realized through the consortium is the largest. The CZU is the only member of a consortium that has not yet organized traineeships at the university level and all placements are being implemented through a consortium. Three of the consortium members did not send any students nor graduates in this year.The strategy of the consortium's work is based on a wide range of fields of study at various universities and thus also on the acquisition of a suitable trainee for a foreign partner. The search for foreign partners is based mainly on previous long-term partnership and contacts, yet we are still looking for new opportunities. New opportunities are being successfully found through other projects, personal visits to institutions, long-term cooperation, visits to student fairs and institutions, cooperation with consortia in other EU countries, involvement in the program and recently through projects or other networks (e.g. EPALE). As a speciality there is also a possibility to get new contacts using the prestigious membership of the European Association of Cities, Institutions and Second Chance Schools (E2C). In addition, consortium staff is looking for options for traineeships in their daily work. We are looking for more opportunities through students and graduates who have already completed their traineeship and are willing to help.The main objective of the consortium is to continue to strengthen the European dimension in education at universities, to deepen the cooperation of educational institutions and businesses and other institutions to promote the quality of higher education and sustainable development, particularly in the social sciences, economics and business, international relations, agriculture. The experience gained by students, teachers and other staff of participating institutions can be easily compared to the level of foreign universities, whether education and acquired knowledge are in line with market needs.Last but not least, we know about the importance of the enriching experience from abroad for the students themselves.Educa International, o.p.s operates in the Czech Republic as a consortium Educa for already 10 years. The consortium focuses primarily on traineeships and on recent graduates, and last year also on employee mobility. We now intend to extend our activity to study at universities in partner and program countries (study mobility, traineeship mobility in the field of study and employee mobility for teaching or training). This is due to the fact that some smaller universities and higher vocational schools do not have enough staff to organize the Erasmus mobility in the best way. Very often they have a low number of mobility participants and do not have resources to hire an Erasmus expert for this work. Therefore small private higher education institutions prefer to transfer this to the consortium. They can only be involved in part of selection of the student and later activities such as the promotion of Erasmus in schools, the organization of selection and nomination of students and other mobility participants. The Educa consortium has responsibility for the administrative part of the mobility process, including financial responsibility, when implementing the Erasmus+ program.In this contract period, the offer of traineeships was extended to traineeships for university graduates and also for staff mobility. The contribution of the consortium is for all stakeholders as there is an increase in the number of trainees' mobility annually. This also includes the mobility of university graduates. In the first period, a small number of graduates participated on mobilities but now the number is higher. The consortium's activities will help small higher education institutions and higher vocational schools to implement training programs at partner universities and to implement staff training and student and graduate traineeships. Staff mobility (teaching and training) enhances participants' competencies and strengthens the internationalization of participating universities. The expected benefits are also the improvement of the quality of administrative activities (OLS, Mobility Tool, mobility agreements, Interim and Final Reports) as these administrative activities are often a barrier for these small institutions with a small number of mobility participants. The Erasmus coordinator of these universities are usually teachers and coordinating Erasmus is an additional activity and they do not have the opportunity and time to devote sufficient attention to the administrative part of the program.

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