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

NMBU is intending to send 20% of their students on mobility. Still there are too few students applying for mobility, but we are delighted to see that the number of students going on Erasmus mobility is increasing. The last couple of years the benefits of the Erasmus+ programme have been extensively promoted in order to increase outbound mobility. We hold information meetings in every department at the university, we use our webpage and facebook page to promote mobility and articles regarding Erasmus Mobility, and we encourage all our outbound students to write travel reports from their exchange period. We believe these activities have contributed to the fact that the number of students applying for Erasmus exchange is growing. In 2014/2015 we sent students to Erasmus partner universities spread all of over Europa,- Spain, Turkey, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Belgium, Austria, Iceland, Czeck Republic and France. However, the most popular countries for the students who go on mobility for studies, were the Netherlands and Germany. NMBU has established several new Erasmus agreements for studies the last couple of years. Most of the students go on mobilities for studies, as most of the study programmes at NMBU do not include any traineeships or practice in their study plan. However, in 2014 NMBU merged with the Norwegian Veterinary School, and students from this programme can be sent on Erasmus traineeships. The veterinary students can do parts of their clinical rotation in foreign veterinary clinics. In 2014/2015 four students from the veterinary School did traineeships in veterinary clinics in two different British universities. NMBU is aiming to send even more veterinary students for Erasmus traineeships in the future. The staff and teachers at NMBU have started to use the possibilities for staff and teacher mobility more than what they used to do. The grants for staff Mobility have among other activities, been used to visit Erasmus partner universities in Germany. Germany is Norway's most important trade partner, and the Norwegian authorities encourages the students to do part of their education in Germany, in order to obtain better knowledge of the German Language and German culture. The staff Mobility grants have also been used for Study coordinators who visited a partner university in Madrid. There is an increasing interest among teachers/staff to use the teacher and staff Mobility grants. The possibilities the grants provide have led to a better coopration with existing partner universities, and also to cooperation with new universities. In 2014/2015 we have had a teacher from a partner university visiting and give lecture here at NMBU, and for 2015/2016 we have several requests already from our own teachers who would like to teach in partner universities.
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