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

Context/background: The project concerns the Learning Mobility of Individuals. Frederick Institute of Technology (FIT) was awarded with the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the whole period of the Erasmus+ Programme (2014-2020) and since 2007, when first started participating in the Erasmus Programme, managed to increase the number of mobilities and bring long lasting benefits to its participants and to the Institution. Objectives: The general policy of FIT for the academic year 2014/2015 was to encourage more students, academic and administrative staff to benefit from the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme. Therefore, we established new inter-institutional agreements and we came closer to potential partners; we developed a network of contacts for the promotion and expansion of the mobility programs. We implemented a marketing plan to raise awareness of and increase participation in outward mobility among home staff and students. We organised information days both in Nicosia and Limassol campuses, we gave promotional material and information packages to both outgoing and incoming students and staff. The Erasmus+ Coordinator, KA1 was always available to students and staff for further direction and support. FIT managed to improve the level of key competences and skills, by strengthening the cooperation with the labour market. Through enhanced policy cooperation between FIT and training providers, the Institution also took steps towards its internationalization policy. Furthermore, by using all the FIT's recognition tools and disseminating the good practices, Frederick Institute of Technology managed to promote the emergence and raise awareness of a European lifelong learning spirit among the student society. Through the Online Linguistic Support, FIT managed to promote the EU's broad linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness and to improve the teaching and learning level of language. Number and type/profile of participants: Frederick Institute of Technology, has been approved to have 6 activities for the academic year 2014/2015, under the Learning Mobility of Individuals project of the Erasmus+, but managed to send 4 graduates and staff members abroad. Priority was given to the graduates, who enthusiastically wanted to participate in the Erasmus+ program for the first time, in order to learn new cultures, to improve their English language level, to gain working experience abroad. Priority was given to the full time faculty members, who applied for a teaching assignment, to the FIT's main Partner Institutions. The current role of all the participants, after coming back from their mobility, is to support other students or colleagues. The success stories were also disseminated to benefit the University overall. Description of undertaken activities: The graduates had the chance to work abroad within 12 months from their graduation date. The staff members benefited also from the Program, having a teaching assignment in a Partner Institution. Results and impact attained: Frederick Institute of Technology managed to: - increase the number of mobilities; - enhance its international dimension; - foster quality improvements and innovation excellence; - gave the chance to the graduates to gain their first working experience abroad; - offer free language courses to its students and graduates through the Online Linguistic Support - increase the Partner list, ( with Higher Education Institutions and offices/companies)
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