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

Driven by its concern and desire for constant renewal, Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Mérida is commited to quality training within the educational framework that borderless EU provides through Erasmus + Programme. Our primary goals has been to deepen the exchange of experiences and methodologies with our partners, to strengthen collaboration between the institutions involved in this project; to benefit from mutual enrichment, to enhance our students' work expectations as well as to contribute to broaden our staff and students' European awareness Focused on the technological and multicultural aspects of the artistic expression and the acknowledgment of design as a vehicle for cultural transmission, the relevant issues to our project have been creativity and culture, problems related to the job market, language competence improvement and /or language learning, as well as recognition, transparency and certification To develop our project, we had applied for students and staff mobilities in order to continue our mutual cooperation with some of the institutions such as The Pedagogical University of Cracow, ESAD in Matosinhos, Koko Mosaico in Ravenna y N2 Design e Comunicaçao in Oporto, as well as create new links with other new institutions.Unfortunately, the staff mobilities couldn't be done. In total, we had 11 mobilities.We received 2 incoming students for studies from The Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland and we sent abroad 3 students for studies- 2 of them studied at the Pedagogical Univesity of Cracow and 1 of them studied at the ESAD in Matoshinhos, Portugal. As far as mobilities for traineeship, we had 6 students: 3 of them were received by host institutions in Portugal : 1 in Lisbon and 2 in Oporto and we also sent 1 student to Crete, Greece, 1 to Istanbul, Turkey and 1 to Ravenna, Italy. The 12- month project has been developed in 3 stages: In the first preparatory stage we provided our students with information about the project and selected the participants.Our School provided the participants with language and culture preparation as well as preparation in labor regulations in the different host countries. The second stage dealt with the mobility period itself. Our students were monitored by the International Programmes Coordinators in both the sending and receiving institutions via email, chat or phone. There was a monitoring visit to Portugal by the International Programmes Coordinator and the Head of Studies. They visited Portugal since our institution had nearly half of its students doing their mobility periods in that country. In the previous year, a member of our staff, The Graphic Design Studies Coordinator, had visited the Pedagogical University of Cracow, where two of our students did their mobility periods and from where we received two students for studies in 2014. The third stage, at the end of the mobility period involved mobility certification and recognition, dissemination of the participants' mobility experiences and the exploitation of the mobility results in order to achieve maximum impact of our project. The host institutions certified the mobility periods and sent a final report on the participant's performance. Our institution recognized all the mobility periods since all the learning agreements were fulfilled and the results provided by the institutions' report proved to be positive. ECTs recognition and transcript of records was granted by the sending organisations by validating the participant's Learning Agreement or Workplace Training Programme. In the case of our student of Mosaic Art, who did his traineeship period after finishing his first academic course, our institution together with the host institution, certified the mobility period by means of the European Mobility Document, Europass. The dissemination and exploitation of results are coordinated by the Person Responsible for the International Programmes and managed by the Head of the Department for the Promotion of Art and Extra-curricular Activities. Apart from the dissemination of experiences through all the institutions' websites, the participants also present their mobility dossiers to the school community in a public event. In this dossier, participants record the techniques, methodologies and materials observed or experienced during their mobility periods.
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