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

NABA is engaging itself into the development of the overall internationalization process more and more; this process is currently guided by NABA International Office and is also involving plenty protagonists of NABA academic life; this progressively wider participation and awareness is considered as an important tool to effectively implement NABA internationalization strategies as a path really shared by all. As a natural consequence of this priority, the Student Exchange program management is now one of the key task of NABA International Office, which meaningfully reports to the Head of Academic Processes (who is also NABA Vice-Director) to assure best guidance to its activities and general development. In fact, this way, the specific Student Exchange program process is non-stop taken care and monitored as a priority. Erasmus+ continues to be the key program for NABA educational mobility. Careful negotiations adapting the mobility schemes to changing situations allow the maintenance and increase of flows. NABA has 50 European partners at university-wide level, among others Aalto University School of Art and Design (Helsinki), La Cambre Ecole National Superieure des Arts Visuels (Bruxelle), Ecole Supérieure d?Arts Appliqués Boulle (Paris), London College of Fashion (London), Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee (Berlin), Willem de Koonig Academy (Rotterdam), ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny (Barcelona), and Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul). About a third of partner universities are ranked among the top 100 Art & Design schools worldwide. NABA internationalization strategy aims at developing a limited number of partnerships at university-wide level with top class universities in various continents e.g. Asia, North America and Europe under the Erasmus+ framework to assure students a high quality exchange program experience. In addition to the ranking of the partner university, common knowledge exchange objective and academic interests as well as existing faculty connections are some of the key-words for the establishment of the agreement. The process of internationalization is tightly linked to the increasingly relevant objective to enhance global job opportunities for NABA graduates within the current complex current job market. This also means acting more and more effectively in selecting exchange partners and improving outgoing and incoming mobility, both in terms of quality and quantity. According to NABA?s view, quality supports quantity. NABA has invested considerable resources in updating courses, expanding the educational offer in English, offering Italian and English Language courses to its international and domestic students, supporting English language skill development for the faculty involved into English taught programs. The result is a well-working balance of incoming and outgoing flows. The ECTS system is fully used as a tool of transparency and a guarantee for the students. The increasing Staff Mobility as well as English taught programs offer are also meaningfully contributing to NABA process of education internationalization. In accordance to NABA general mission statement, the key synergy between education and research as well the link with Industry is concretely taken into into due consideration within all mobility project. This is NABA?s concrete modality to assure highest consideration to the quality of Mobility. Coherently with the importance of NABA?s internationalization process, along this academic year we have been improving the visibility of the Study Abroad opportunities; first of all a new Erasmus and International Exchange Programs web page has been designed and is available at our institutional web site http://www.naba.it/erasmus-and-international-exchange/?lang=en: the new online application procedure has been developed to give the possibility to incoming and outgoing students to directly apply through NABA institutional web page. In addition: ? intensifying the academic staff knowledge and experience sharing has been increasing the in-house awareness; ? developing special ?welcome back? meetings with former exchange outgoing students has been also increasing the internationalization awareness within the student body; ? launching NABA Buddy Project (mature student volunteering activities for exchange students and new international students) provided by NABA Student Life Office has been deeply contributing to reinforce the inclusivity of the international student community to become more cohesive and collaborative. The Buddy project is currently benefiting of the natural synergy between Student Life Office and International Office as both offices are managed by same manager.
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