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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

According to the Erasmus + Policy, and also this project, the main goal of the College was the development of partnership, development of partnerships, building knowledge alliances and capacity building with the European and non-European countries by organizing 31 mobilities to programme countries. The quantitative objectives of the project were met 100%. Reflecting our strategic destinations from the Erasmus+ Policy, during the course of the project 31 people carried out their mobility. Students went from Poland to such countries as Germany (3 for traineeships), Greece (1 for a traineeship), Latvia (2 for studies), Portugal (3 for studies), Turkey (7 for studies). Moreover, 3 academic teachers carried out their teaching programmes in such countries as Czech Republic, Italy and Portugal. Staff was also able to take part in staff mobility for training, going to Czech Republic (7 people), Germany (1 person), Spain (2 people) and Portugal (2 people). The most numerous were mobilities for studies. To the new partner institution in Portugal (Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco) for the first time went 3 students of Technical and Computer Science Education (previously no-one from this Programme went abroad). For the first time 2 students of English Philology went to a new partner institution in Latvia. Seven students of such programmes like journalism, physiotherapy, English Philology and Nursing went to Turkey to various partner institutions. During the course of the project we managed to increase the number of traineeship mobilities, thanks to the positive change of being able to offer the placements to graduates. In the previous years the college hasn’t sent more than 3 students abroad for traineeships, now it was 4, from various programmes. 2 of them were graduates of Early school and Pre-school Pedagogy and English philology. The other two studied Technical and Computer Education and Physiotherapy. The most often chosen destination for traineeships was Germany. While looking for the placements the students needed to use the help of the Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator and other companies– otherwise they wouldn’t have gone abroad. The coordinator and the companies regularly contacted the students by e-mail and telephone and actively encouraged them to look for various job offers as well as organized the placements. One of the students used the contact of the Coordinator and went for a practial placement to DLR School-Lab at the University of Technology in Dresden in Germany. The company Beta Aktiv from Germany and Job Trust from Greece offered to other placements in Greece and in Germany. An extra activity, going beyond the Erasmus project and financed from other sources, was sending to Janske Lazne Spa in Czech Republic six students of physiotherapy for 1 month traineeships. Two of the staff went to the Spa in the framework of Erasmus+ for their training to be able to express our will to be partners with this institution and prepare the ground for future Erasmus + placements there. One of the impacts of this project is the open possibility for our students to go there for training - 5 of the students do that in the summer of 2016. Apart from the visit of the staff in Janske Lazne SPA for training the staff of Karkonosze College went to two other new institutions with which we only initiated our cooperation. The staff learned there amout various aspects of higher educations management (like the visit to West Bohemian University in Plzen). During a teaching and training staff visit to Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco in Portugal we tightened our co-operation and monitored our students there. The visit of other staff members to Spain gave them new insights regarding the work of the international office. Following the path of students who carried out their practical placement at University of Foggia in 2014, one teacher carried out his mobility to this University and another one went to Univerzita Usti nad Labem which 5 of our students chose as the destination for 2015. An important part of the project and a challenge was to receive students and Staff from abroad. In 2014/2015 there were more students than in the previous years: 15 people. Moreover there was an increase of the number of the incoming staff from partner institutions – in 2014/2015 there were as many as 9 of them, 2 of which came for contact making purposes, not for the training itself. The biggest challenge was to provide the highest quality of academic support for the incoming students, already at the moment of planning. The course catalogue in our institution is complete - however, only in our local Polish language. The task of its translation and updating of the changes has been so far the biggest challenge for our organization, taking up a lot of resources.
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