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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Istanbul Ayd?n University's KA103: Mobility of Individuals to and from programme countries project is set in the context of the Erasmus+ Programme, Action Learning Mobility of Individuals, Call 2014. The objectives of our project represent in the same time the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme at European level, in accordance with the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the objectives of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020), including the corresponding benchmarks; the sustainable development of Partner Countries in the field of higher education; the overall objectives of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018);the objective of developing the European dimension in sport, in particular grassroots sport, in line with the EU work plan for sport; the promotion of European values in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union. Specifically, within the time line set by our Grant Agreement we engaged: to improve the level of key competences and skills of the 120 participants to the project in terms of their future contribution to society and to the labor market, to foster and to improve transnational cooperation through staff and students exchange,through innovation and the exchange of good practices in the area of higher education with our portfolio of 206 partner and beyond, to support the modernization of education and training system at IAU, as well as the transparency of the Programme by keeping an accurate account of all undergone activities and to disseminate the results of the project, to improve the teaching and learning of languages among our participants and to promote the EU's broad linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness. Our project with a total of 120 participants includes: 84 student mobilities for studies, 10 student mobilities for traineeship, 14 staff mobilities for teaching and 12 staff mobilities for training. Our Erasmus+ outgoing students are manly undergraduate, male (57,55% of participants), prefer to undertake a study mobility in Hungary, Poland,Sweden or Spain with an average duration of 5,70 months and get fully recognized an average of 37 ECTS upon returning to IAU. On the other hand, our staff prefer short term mobilities (5 days) for teaching or training/job shadowing in Poland, Italy or Spain and are mostly females (57,69% of participants). Over 83% of students for study mobility and over 75% of students for traineeship mobility declared that through the participation in the Erasmus+ Programme, their socio-cultural and linguistic competencies increased, that their teamwork and inter-cultural adaptability is better now and that they are more proactive, more interested in the European space, they are more self-aware and that they have gained invaluable knowledge for their future academic and professional life. Over 42,86% of the staff undergoing an STA mobility and over 33,33% of the staff undergoing an STT mobility observed increased competencies in terms of expanding their professional network, they feel their job satisfaction increased as well as their teaching/organizational skills and methods. Overall, an Erasmus+ mobility brought them and to our university a boost in our partnership with the host university which will contribute further on to the exchange of good ideas and best practices in HE and to the development of further cooperation projects. The results of our project were presented to different stakeholders within our university- upper management, faculties/institutes, library department, students themselves and shared with exterior stakeholders including the Turkish National Agency and the European Commission via this report. In addition a collection of data resulted in a statistics report for this year, to be added to a bigger print out report on the Erasmus+ Programme at Istanbul Ayd?n University.This data will be furthermore used in different events including International Partners weeks, meetings with local and international authorities and seminars and presented in brief to all university guests visiting Istanbul Ayd?n University. Our webpage, blogs, social media, newsletters, bulletin boards will be containing the results of our project and shall be published on our Erasmus+ webpage. The mobility experience of our participants will be collected in a new project called Erasmus+ Travelogue Competition with prizes http://www.erasmusseyahatname.com/en/ intended to put together the experiences of our previous participants in a journal for the use of future generations of inbound and outbound participants. In terms of long term projects, we would be glad to keep and/develop relations with them on Erasmus+ joint master degrees, study abroad programs, KA2 and KA3 research projects; joint seminars, conferences; Erasmus+ International Partners Week; Erasmus+ students and staff exchange;; Erasmus+ Traineeship opportunities and Summer School Projects.
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