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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The international focus is essential at the Rennes Institute of Political Science. Sciences Po Rennes has had all third-year students go abroad since 1998. And all along their studies, students do internships (compulsory, advised, and part of the Master's Degree). Many are done abroad (almost 41% of all internships in 2014-2015). Every year, Sciences Po Rennes welcomes around one hundred international students as well as teachers from partner universities. The 2014 Erasmus mobility project lasted 24 months and was scheduled between June 1, 2014 and May 5, 2016. In 2014-2015, students could choose between spending two semesters at one of our partner universities or doing a long internship (6 to 9 months) abroad. Two students doing an internship in 2015-2016 have also been financed thanks to the 2014 financial convention. Moreover, in 2014-2015, two third-year students benefited from an Erasmus grant to fund their short mandatory internship. Moreover, the international dimension at Sciences Po Rennes is also visible in our Master 2 programs. Thus, the 2014 convention allowed one MUGIR student to receive an Erasmus grant. In order to carry out the mobility policy at Sciences Po Rennes, we maintain and develop our international exchange agreements so as to offer outgoing students the widest range of choices possible as regards destinations. To do so, the quality of our programs has to be acknowledged, and we have to explain our status as a Breton "Grande Ecole" to prestigious international universities and companies. We also have to offer solutions to our academic partners to offset the imabalances of our exchanges. Indeed, as there are more than 200 third-year students at Sciences Po Rennes, outgoing mobility is always higher than incoming mobility. Sciences Po Rennes strives to offer outgoing students a diverse and qualitative choice while respecting the principles of equal access for all to international mobility, no matter the social or financial background of the participants (staff included). In 2014-2015, Sciences Po Rennes signed a cooperation and exchange agreement with 128 international higher education institutions, including 76 as part of the Erasmus + program, which have allowed 121 students to go abroad to study (60 in Europe) and 117 students to come to the IEP (49 from European countries). As regards apprenticeship mobility (7 to 9 months), 82 students were welcomed in different organisations in 30 countries (administration, associations, companies, NGOs and international institutions). 25 students did an internship in a country associated to the Erasmus program and 57 in a country outside Europe. Analysing the mobility destinations indicates that 51% of the students decided to study in a group 1 country as defined in the Erasmus program, 48% in a group 2 country and 2% in a group 3 country. Reviewing where students did their mobility internships reveals that 60% of them went to a group 1 country, 32% to a group 2 country and 8% to a group 3 country. We have used almost 100% of the European subsidy for this project. We optimised as best as we could the utilisation of European funding for student and staff mobility. Yet we could not help financially all students doing their mobility in Europe. Indeed, 16 students at universities were not awarded an Erasmus grant, and we could optimise the program by declaring all internships, be they short or exceeding 2 months, in Europe: in 2014-2015, the number of internships lasting more than 9 weeks done in Europe by Sciences Po Rennes students is 61. At the moment, only the internships financed by the Erasmus program have been declared. The survey on professional integration conducted each year among alumni 30 months after graduation permits to check the impact of the compulsory mobility abroad. The latest survey included the 2013 class. It shows that Sciences Po Rennes students have skills that allow them to evolve with ease and success in an international context. Half of those who responded to the survey mentioned that they use foreign languages daily in their professional environment, when 35% use them sometimes. More than a quarter of them (25,9%) have chosen to work abroad.

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