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

The Campiani Mantova Conservatoire is one of the smallest among the Italian conservatoires. The student population amounts to an average 350 students per year, including the junior section and the previous system courses. The new system academic courses (1st and 2nd cycle, EQF level 6 and 7) have been activated in 2005, and the student population of these courses has been growing up since then, from just a few units during the first year, up to about 50% of the total in 2014/15. During the three year period among 2010/11 and 2012/13, the Institute has carried on a remarkable effort of adjustment to the Bologna Process standards and guidelines, getting to be awarded the Diploma Supplement Label in 2013. The international vocation of the Institute is characterized by a good openness towards incoming foreign students with respect to its size, and by the implementation of the Erasmus Programme since 2008. During the four academic years preceeding the last one - from 2010/11 to 2013/14 - the Erasmus staff mobility has been proportionally relevant: the amount of outgoing staff mobility for teaching and training averaged about 10% of the teaching staff, with a corresponding amount of incoming staff mobility. The student mobility has been rather limited instead, with only 7 outgoing students total in the four years (zero in 2013/14) and only two incoming students. Starting from 2014/15, though, new internal regulation and procedures for the Erasmus+ programme have been established in the Conservatoire, with the purpose of balancing the mobility by supporting the student mobility as much as possible. Total recognition of credits acquired in mobility has been granted by regulation; 6 new Erasmus+ inter-institutional agreements have been stipulated in 2015; for the first time, with the 2015 Call, the Institute has requested funds for student mobility for traineeship, therefore for the first time a student of the Institute can now benefit from a traineeship grant; already realized student mobility for 2014/15 and 2015/16 amounts to 8 units (almost thrice the total of the previous three years). Between 2010 and 2014 there have been many changes in the administrative and teaching staff, also affecting the Erasmus management in many ways. Though starting from November 2014 a certain discontinuity has occurred with respect to the previous management, a specific distinction between the current and the previous practices will not be systematically specified in this relation. Anyway, where not otherwise specified, most of the contents in this relation do apply also to the past. For the future, we intend to continue along the undertaken path, expanding the amount and types of students who benefit from the mobility, taking advantage of the variety of the educational offer of the partner institutions, and possibly increasing the distribution of the available funds from Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in proportion to students' income ranges, in order to encourage the participation of less wealthy students. Information and disclosure activities will be intensified, regarding principles and contents of the Erasmus+ Programme, and the benefits that an international mobility experience can produce for the quality of the educational offer of the Institute and for learning outcomes of the students.

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