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

Erasmus+ programme as the EU Programme in the fields of education, training, youth and sport offers numerous opportunities for cooperation, projects and mobility in the fields of higher education. The participation in the programme enabled the University of Applied Health Sciences to participate in the programme's Key Activitiy 1 which supports learning mobility of individuals. The activities aimed at and implemented as part of this Key Activity are mobility of higher learners and staff, and in this project, the mobility of higher education students and staff. The University of Applied Health Sciences in Zagreb is the oldest institution of higher professional education offering biomedicine and health studies in Croatia and as such among other objectives it strives towards ongoing internalization which involves international mobility of both its students and staff. The attainment of the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education and participation in the Erasmus+ programme have added to increasing the University’s international dimension. The aim of the project was to provide the students, teaching and non-teaching staff with the possibility to participate in the mobility scheme that the programme offers (mobility for studies and traineeship, and mobility for teaching and training). What was expected was that the mobility would result in improved competences, language knowledge and overall international experience of the participants which in turn would then positively affect and add to their further studies and work. Within the project 8 mobilities in total were realized. Out of those 8 mobilities – six mobilities were undertaken by students (undergraduate level) and two by teaching staff.Student mobilities included both mobility for studies and traineeships, the majority of which (4) were for traineeship purposes. Mobility for studies involved two students spending 4 months at a partner institution in the Czech Republic at the study programme of Occupational therapy and taking part in courses organized for Erasmus incoming students. Two students from the study programme of Physiotherapy spent two months at a German neurological/neurosurgical rehabilitation clinic as part of their traineeship scheme and two other traineeship mobility students spent about three and four months respectively, working at a pediatric rehabilitation clinic in Malta. Staff mobility involved two members of teaching staff participating in mobility for staff training. Both mobilities involved job-shadowing at partner institutions in Slovenia and Portugal. The mobility which was undertaken at a partner institution in Ljubljana, Slovenia included a teacher from a Physiotherapy study programme job-shadowing a colleague teaching at chosen study courses for a period of four days. The other staff mobility was a five-day mobility at a partner institution in Coimbra, Portugal at a study programme of Environmental Health. The mobility involved job shadowing of the partner’s Head of Environmental Health Department and introduction to the work of the Department and international relations. Even though it was initially expected that student mobility for studies would include a greater number of students participating in mobility for studies, the mobility for traineeship proved to be more sought after. The reason could be that with the Erasmus+ programme the students could participate in the traineeship mobilities which they did not have the opportunity to do in the previous programme and it also provided them with the opportunity to work in a proper working environment for a greater amount of time and to add to and develop existing knowledge, skills and competences.Regarding the staff mobility, both members of the teaching staff chose mobility for training through which they expected to strengthen the established collaboration with the partner country and to gain new experiences and competences which would then be applied at their home institution.The participation in the project and the mobility of the University's students also led to establishing cooperation with new partner countries and signing new interinstitutional agreements for the mobility of students and staff. The newly formed cooperation relations in turn resulted in several project applications and opportunities for furthering the existing cooperation. The student mobility apart from resulting in newly gained intercultural experience and awareness, provided students with increased competences, language knowledge and greater sense of self-esteem. With their experience the students contributed to increased motivation among other students for taking part in mobility and also motivated them to help inbound students during their stay at the University of Applied Health Sciences. Staff mobilities undertaken within the call 2014 were first staff mobility activities within the Erasmus programme and they definitely served as a motivational factor for other staff.

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