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

The ENSICAEN has been involved in the European Erasmus program since its creation. It is one of the 7 French engineering schools comprising the AMPERE (Alliance to Mutualise and Promote External Relations of 7 Engineering Schools) network , a thematic network based on the STIC with the goal of developing their activities on the international level. Meetings with the Erasmus Agency in Paris and numerous discussions with our partners in the AMPERE network in the spring of 2013 resulted in the desire to create a consortium of Erasmus internships piloted by the ENSICAEN, targeting the mobility internship of our student engineers in STIC. In this way, each consortium establishment keeps an individual application for the other forms of mobility and all mobility is eligible in a single ERASMUS project. Four partners joined us: the ENSTA Bretagne, the ENSEA of Cergy-Pontoise, Telecom Physique Strasbourg (TPS), and Telecom Saint-Etienne (TSE). The objectives were to: -Promote mobility internships in European countries for the student-engineers, since the majority will carry out their careers in Europe, -Optimise the consortium schools’ resources by pooling administrative and financial management of the project, -Optimise the use of the grants awarded, -Identify European laboratories or businesses that would handle a large flow of student-engineers with the aim to create a pool of talent, -Reinforce the dynamism and visibility of the AMPERE network on the international scene. Each school provided a projection of its mobility internships (STIC). 112 mobility slots were requested in the candidature forms in March 2014. A rate of 44% was applied and 49 mobility slots were awarded to us. We requested the transfer of 50% of the OM. Consequently, aid for mobility was awarded proportionally on each school’s provisional request and the global amount of the aid available. At the time of the intermediary report in February 2015, we asked for a complement of 112 mobility slots, which was accepted, but we were informed of this in May 2015, after selection committees in each of the consortium schools had closed, and after the departure on internship of some of the schools’ students. On this basis, each establishment re-evaluated its request, and a re-distribution was made. The result is that we were not able to use all the funding granted in the 2nd wave, and there was performance degradation in the consortium’s allocation of funding. The end of the project reports 110 mobility slots of which 2 were not allocated. An outstanding balance of more than 6000 euros is explained by a fastidious implementation of the project and by a lack of experience. Previously, the consortium schools had each run their own ERASMUS mobility internships. With the ENSICAEN debuting its role as head of the consortium, there was a needed learning period. The student engineers, with student status, of consortium members went abroad at Master 1 or 2 level, according to the school calendars and the time limits demanded by the rules of the different partners. The length of stay varies between 2 and 6 months. Each partner’s selection commission assures the necessary transparency and equal access for all participants. The ENSICAEN has put a form on line for this outgoing mobility via MoveOn and has put the mobility kit on the Moodle platform where it is accessible to consortium students. The impact of this project is positive and already noticeable: a net increase in the flow of mobility internship has been noted. The dynamism of the network has been reinforced: one network area to develop is mobility in Europe, and a thorough renovation of the AMPERE site is underway. In the long term, the objective is to constitute an important pool of businesses and universities for our schools and research laboratories. A statistical analysis of host establishments will allow us to identify the partners with whom we can deepen our exchanges.
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