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

Le Nivot agricultural school is currently involved in its second Erasmus Program. Our school offers training and certification in agricultural fields and in forestry (two-year third level curricula in Animal Production/ Farm Management and in Forest Management.) The teaching staff at Le Nivot have at heart to organise mobility in Europe and outside Europe for our students for several reasons. To develop our students'awareness about their European citizenship. To help them develop their independence and self-reliance. To help our students develop their language skills. To promote the acquisition of new or different technical skills/ knowledge in their field of study. To improve their work prospects at home and abroad. Our school would like to develop staff mobility to improve the quality of the teaching at Le Nivot and to improve the quality of the support for our students to help them through the process of work placement in a foreign country. The profile of our students. Our students have graduated from high school and most of them have passed a technical/ vocationnal baccalaureate. They are studying to specialise in Forest Management (sustainable management of private forests with the purpose to produce timber) and Animal production (mainly dairy farming, pig farming and horse breeding, with in mind the respect of the environment.) There wasn't any mobility for the 2014 Erasmus program. We found it difficult to entice our students to go on work placement abroad, mainly because of organisational and communication problems. Only some of our students went abroad on work placement (17 out of 40 for a one month period only.) The main difficulty was a financial one as it proved difficult for our students to commit to a two month placement abroad (our forestry students have to pay for accommodation and food during their placement and that requires a quite bigger budget than for farm management students.) Student mobility as part of the Erasmus Program was not achieved that year, yet 17 of our students (out of 40) went on work placement abroad for a one month period. The positive outcome of this 2014 Erasmus program was that it allowed us to reflect on the difficulties we encountered mainly due to poor planning and dysfunctional communication within the team. We improved our planning and three of our students went away with the Erasmus 2015 program, which is equal to 100% of the grants given to us for this year.
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