Coordination of Erasmus+ project EUROEXCHANGE: This project was coordinated by the LEONARDO OFFICE SAXONY (LEOSAXONY), financially hosted by TU Dresden, and involves 18 Saxon universities. All measures of the project, administrative and financial management, preparation and monitoring of the participants were implemented in close cooperation between all partners. Background and objectives of the project: This projects’ starting point is social and economic development towards Europe. While the sector of higher education is being influenced by this development it also fosters it by its own objectives and approaches. It can be seen as an example, that Saxon universities have set themselves the goal of increasing international mobility of its university members (students and staff), dismantling barriers to mobility, providing incentives and increasing appreciation methods for these efforts. This proceeding corresponds particularly to the wishes of university members and the primary structural perspective of the Saxon economy. Last but not least the Saxon universities benefit from the stronger networking in European higher education sector as well as from the intensive exchange and training of scientific and non-scientific staff. Thus, individual objectives of grant holders are being reconciled with those of the other project partners. Activities and results: In this project only student and graduate internships and staff trainings for scientific and administrative staff were carried out. Compared to last year, the number of participants in the field of SMP has been increased. Their stay abroad prepared students and graduates to a very high extent for the start of their careers. Cooperation of university partners and the LEOSACHSEN has been further improved. Students and graduates trained and gained key competencies. In the case of mandatory internships the support contributed to the students’ professional education, established a reference to practice and, thus, contributed to the professional training in order to prepare them for their tasks in all management levels. The reputation of the education at Saxon universities was strengthened (a contribution to attracting new students). The international internship has become a very concrete point of reference during the students education. The receiving institutions employed qualified and motivated trainees and benefited, thus, from their current level of education. The interns introduced latest scientific know how and intercultural experience, exceptional projects could be supported effectively. The evaluation of the ST participants’ profiles shows their focus lay on individual training. Most mobilities were individually planned and tailored to their needs – partly with the support of LEOSAXONY. It has been positively identified, that the program does not focus on scientific staff only, but is open to all university members. Administrative staff is often faced with the task to support the internationalization strategies and to breathe life into those ideas (e.g. by welcoming international students, acknowledging their records…), however, most of them do not feel prepared for these challenges. Therefore, the Erasmus+ offer was used, e.g. to ensure language acquisition or to visit strategic partner universities to get to know their circumstances and persons on the spot and to develop joint procedures. Participants: 374 students and 35 employees of the participating institutions received an Erasmus+ funding for their stay abroad. Approximately 57% of the student grant holders were female. About 60% of the students carried out a mandatory internship. The most mobile fields of study in our project are engineering, economics, social sciences and human medicine. Main destination countries were English-speaking countries (151), Spain (48), France (41) and Austria (35). Approximately 36% of our participants completed short-term internships (2-3 months). About 36% completed internships between 4-5 months and about 27% remained 6 and more months in their host country. In the field of Staff mobility, only Staff trainings have been carried out. To support small universities in the Saxon consortium, Staff Mobilities for teaching assignments were applicable, but not demanded in the current project. The importance of this offer differs largly in the Saxon consortium: While smaller universities offer this service to staff and students exclusively via LEOSACHSEN, bigger universities understand and communicate it as supplementary service to their own efforts. Therefore, it is not a big surprise that 29 staff grant holders are members of TUD and only 6 are members of other participating institutions. 28 participants were female. 25 persons stayed 5 days abroad. 5 people chose even a shorter period, 4 used the support for an intensive long-term training. In the very most cases it’s been administrative staff applying for this special type of education.