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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

In line with the provisions of EU Regulation No 1288/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and the Strategic Framework ET 2020, the Erasmus+ KA103 awarded to the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce for the academic year 2014/2015 have permetted to twenty persons among students, teachers and administrative staff to organise and realize their study, training and work / training abroad experience (as for students, attending courses, sitting examinations, thesis preparation, laboratory activities. As for teachers: seminars and lectures, courses. As for the administrative staff: participation in Staff weeks and job shadowing). All mobilities have received the full recognition of the training, work or study activities. With regard to the context it should be noted that the Academy has a student population of about 500 units. Teachers are about 50 persons. The administrative staff is represented in a total of 20 units. The teaching and administrative staff currently in service has a poor knowledge of foreign languages. In their turn, students are often very motivated not to leave. Often they want to have their studies as soon as they can or they do not want to leave their teachers, who become a sort of "dominus" of the learning process. Although the Academy has accessed to EU funds since 2000 (cf. Socrates Programme, then LLp Erasmus Programme), it has experienced a slow, albeit gradual expansion of mobility. Moreover, during the academic year 2013/2014 the Academy has experienced a setback, having no bearing on the move (only 6 students and one teacher has made a mobility experience). Given that context, one of the first goals of the academic year 2014/2015 was certainly to increase the number of student and staff mobility, therefore a change in the local perception of the usefulness of an experience abroad. Some other objectives to be reaced have been 1. to draft and to approve the new version of a comprehensive, inner regulation on credit recognition 2. to update Erasmus+ contents of the Internet institutional website www.accademialecce.it, to upload useful infos and documents 3. to sign new bilateral agreements and to renew those that were expiring 4. to improve performances in terms of reception and orientation of incoming students 5. the promotion of some post-graduate training erasmus+ periods. Because of the easiness of its structure and new ways of using the Program, it has been possible to achieve all the objectives above mentioned. The Erasmus Program has enabled a larger number of teachers and students to work together with their homologues, and the partner structures from different European countries, on one or more topics of common interest. These include the following results: 1. the mobility of 15 students (7 for the purpose of study and 8 for that of training. Three were abroad for a post-graduate experience. It is the 3% of all the students), 3 teachers (coming from different fields of competence. Two of them were recruited on temporary contracts. It is the 6% of all the teachers) and 2 members administrative staff (1 officer and 1 administrative assistant. It was the 10% of all the staff) 2. the preparation and approval of the new rules on recognition of Erasmus courses 3. the drawing up of an agreement with the LISA Association (Lecce), that belongs to the ESN network. The student association was given responsibility for the reception of incoming students (pickup from the airport, introduction to the premises of the Academy, help in finding a house/a room where to stay diring the mobility, orientation through the Academy academic offer, introduction to language course offer to the Language Center of the University of Salento) 4. the enewal and signature of bilateral agreements (e.g., the extension of cooperation with the United Kingdom, the stipulation of agreement with other EU countries, like Croatia, etc.) 5. a geographical diversification of mobility of students and academic and administrative staff (new mobilites to Romania, United Kingdom, Turkey, Denmark) 6. more generally, the growth of language skills, computer skills, motivation, knowledge of other countries and other cultures.
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