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

The geographical position of Trieste, its history linked to the Habsburg Empire and its harbour have contributed in making the city an international, multicultural and welcoming place. Fulcrum of the historical region of Venezia Giulia, it represents the bridge between Western and South Central Europe, a real gateway to the East also open to flows to and from countries of that region, especially those of the former Yugoslavia which are culturally and logistically neighbors. Conservatorio Tartini, one of thirteen historical musical institutions in Italy, was founded in 1903 boasting more than ten years of experience in the field of the Erasmus mobility. Besides it is the Italian institution with the higher number of foreign students. Since 2002 the students mobility for study SMS were undertaken and steadily increased in number.They initially used to range between 5 and 6 per year, whereas currently there are about twenty students in mobility. In 2007 the mobility Placement SMP was added, thanks to the partnership in the KTEUP consortium, headed by the University of Udine and also including universities and conservatories of the FVG Region. This is the first Italian consortium bringing together Universities and AFAM Institutions as well. In 2010 Tartini became a member of the WWM Working With Music consortium aimed at implementing the Leonardo mobilities for young graduates. At the end of the project and given the excellent results achieved, the consortium WWM set up a new project called WWM + with similar purposes. The increasing demand for mobility and the need for more managerial autonomy has led the Trieste Conservatory to present an autonomous application, which was successful. Starting from three students in 2007, it has come to about thirty people on the move today, distributed among WWM+, SMP and KTEUP. Even the teachers mobility STA and STT, for teachers and administration, have had a growing success experiencing an increase of 70% from the beginning until today, about thirty. The aim is to meet new realities that enable and encourage discussion and professional development, as well as prepare and facilitate the students mobility. The institutional strategy of internationalization has always had as its main objective to make known the Conservatory, stimulating the students and teachers mobility to the largest number of European academies and promoting the circulation of knowledge. It is therefore focused on increasing the number of partners, both within the project LLP just concluded and the new Erasmus +, trying to make connections stable and continuous in all the European countries. Those contacts have also offered the opportunity to make known our own situation, in particular concerning the new faculties such as MNT and Jazz. As an active member of the AEC the Tartini Conservatory hosted in 2014 the meeting JPJ, attracting a huge number of participants. Moreover since 2010 it took shape the idea of creating a bridge towards the Balkan region, in which many countries had precluded the implementation of Erasmus. For this reason the candidature for the K107 was set up involving five Balkan academies, respectively those of Novi Sad (Serbia), Sarajevo and Banja-Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Cetinje (Montenegro) and Tirana (Albania). The proposed project was successful and, thanks to a substantial funding, in 2015 2016 the mobility students and teachers will start to and from those institutions. All activities described certainly contribute to strengthening ties between institutions, facilitating mobilities, realizing different projects, fostering the circulation of knowledge, creating new partnerships in which cooperation can be beneficial to similarity of programs and objectives or for identifying common and innovative best practices. Communication and dissemination prove to be crucial in any project of cooperation and it is therefore necessary to release information on the way to its conclusion. It must therefore intensify, through appropriate actions, the attention to the mobility, by pursuing an increase in its number, creating an impact on the local culture and the socioeconomic context and making public the results of the process of integration and development towards a European dimension.

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