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

The Haute Ecole en Hainaut (HEH) has, in addition to the Institution's headquarters, four categories spread over 5 different campus in the cities of Mons and Tournai. The overall coordination is based at the headquarters where the institutional coordinator meets its collaborators in order to define the strategy to pursue in terms of promotion of the international mobility for students and staff. To reach the entire educational community, a relay network, composed of the International Relations Unit (RIE) is set up on each campus so that applications and administrative documents for mobility can be collected and managed. The latters are trasnfered to HEH headquarters for centralization. The HEH is a non-university higher education institution (university college). Our activities are entitled for a community with specific needs and expectations, coming from a regional geographic area. The international dimension is firmly rooted in the institution because the authorities have understood the importance to promote and encourage students and teachers mobility. Mobility promotes partnerships's development as well as the exchange of experiences and practices. It also promotes innovative methods research. Thanks to the exchange and bilateral dialogue, mobility facilitates the individual improvement. Our institution essentially offers three-year professional Bachelors or Masters that lead to professions recognized as teachers, social workers, executive assistants, industrial engineers, educators, tourist animators, event organizers, etc. The HEH authorities's international relations development strategy is part of a dynamic aiming at enabling our students to complete their competences and knowledges thanks to an international curriculum (SMS) through a bilateral partnership with identical institutions or to acquire additional professional skills (SMP) thanks to an additional international dimension. The HEH does its best to give students the opportunity to meet other students and other teachers who will give a different dimension to the profession they are preparing. Meanwhile, fully aware that the challenge is to improve staff's individual experience, HEH's authorities encourage the teaching mobility STA (1 in Portugal - POLITECNICO INSTITUTO DO PORTO - PORTO05 P) and teacher training : STT (Netherlands 1 and Czech Republic 3). Staff members usually want to improve their experience and knowledge in a particular area or share their knowledge with other partners. They want to discover unknown aspects of the training. This approach aims at enlarging the profession's dimension and becomes a criterion of choice in finding partners for study and training pruposes. Regarding the geographical criterion chosen by the students for traineeships in Europe, French-speaking countries (10 mobilities) remain the preferred choice of our students but other foreign languages are interesting for our students beause they are taught in HEH so that 11 mobilities took place in Spain, Ireland, England, Netherlands, Germany and Italy, although this traineeship was in French (Secondary and primary schools, specialized institutions. For study mobilities, Spain ranks far ahead of the chosen destinations (Universities of Cadiz E CADIZ01 and Granada E GRANADA01 for 5 student mobilitiesl). Note that the HEH has a big student community engaged in social studies : social workers, teachers, educators. The following parameters constitute a strong criterion to select our partners within and outside the EU for traineeship : service, welfare and listening skills. Regarding their integration traineeship's period abroad, the major part of the students of pedagogical and social fields chose NGOs in Africa or in Latin America in diffrent fields : youth support, disability sector, education, social development. Students in the economic sphere (including the tourism section) prefer traineeships in traditional countries where the economy and tourism industry are further developed. Students in the technical area (industrial electronic engineers, construction, IT, surveyor) usually perform their training in Europe and outside Europe (Asia for example for 2014 funds Call). 74.29% of student mobility financed by Erasmus+ program takes place in Europe for the 2014 Funds Call, i.e. 26 mobilities out of 35 (Europe / outside Europe). If Staff mobility is included, the percentage increases to 77.5% (31 out of 40 mobilities).

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