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

The Mobility Project of Democritus University of Thrace, in the framework of European Programme Erasmus+/Key Action 1 (KA1): Learning Mobility of Individuals - Higher Education Student and Staff Mobility, comprises Student Mobility for studies and traineeship (work placement) and Staff Mobility for teaching and training. The Project?s duration was 16 months, starting on 1st June 2014 until 30th September 2015. Through all the stages of the projects implementation there was care for satisfying: a) the University's goals towards modernization, internationalization and extroversion, b) the needs and goals of each student or staff participant, c) the total harmonization to the program's regulations and the proper funding management. The project's goals were quantitative as well as qualitative and in particular the retention and the enhancement, where applicable, of the quality and the quantitative increase of outgoing student and staff mobility in Europe. The quantitative goals were achieved in total (increase of the participants' numbers in comparison to previous years) and furthermore there was an overage of the anticipated mobilities number. Besides, it is estimated that staff mobility would have been even higher, if it hadn't been for the cancellations due to the economical situation of the country (sudden bank closure, capital controls). The receiving organisations involved in the mobility were from: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The number of participants in mobility activities was: 116 students for studies (SMS), 26 students for traineeship (SMP), 18 staff members for teaching (STA) and 13 staff members for training (STT), achieving an outgoing mobility total of 173 people. The sending organisations involved in the incoming mobility were from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The number of incoming participants was: 27 students for studies (SMS), 14 staff members for teaching (STA) and 3 staff members for training (STT), achieving an incoming mobility total of 44 people. As far as the project's quality assurance and management optimisation is concerned, the following actions were implemented in co-operation with the Departmental Coordinators: - encouragement and support of the use by all the participants of the new online tools (OLS, Mobility Tool), which were introduced by the Erasmus+, - transparency assurance and equal treatment in the selection procedures of outgoing students by documenting and reforming the credits point system used in all 3 study cycles, for study and traineeship mobility, - full and immediate recognition of the mobility periods, - commencement of a documentation procedure concerning the emergent added value of mobility within the university's departments (students, teaching and other staff), - presentation and development of best practices for organising and transmitting student and staff mobility, - support the actions of ESN DUTH, within university as a whole and in each department separately. - keep the project's website constantly updated and improve its functionality. The project's outcomes and impact emerges from the analytical data mentioned next concerning mobility, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the wider application of the ECTS system in the 1st and 2nd study cycle and the implemention of dissemination actions by ESN DUTH. In the matter of longterm outcomes, we refer to the establishment of the Erasmus+ program as a central action that ensures the internationalisation and extroversion of our organisation. It provides through student and staff mobility (both incoming and outgoing) support to the Institution's actions to harmonise the studies' curricula according to international standards in every subject field.

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