Higher education student and staff mobility projec..
Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Erasmus+ program at Masaryk University is centrally coordinated by the Centre for International Cooperation (CIC). Administrative and financial aspect of the program is the responsibility of the institutional coordinator, who is authorized by the rector to sign all interinstitutional agreements. The agenda of outgoing students (SMS and SMP) is managed by three coordinators who sign Participant’s and Learning Agreements with the students, award the financial support, and provide the students with all the information before, during and after their mobility. Incoming students are taken care of by one coordinator at CIC and the International Student Club, while another coordinator is responsible for staff training.
The quality aspect of the program was set up at the very beginning of the project through a creation of MU‘s online application ISOIS. All interinstitutional agreements are signed and program administered through this application. MU has signed approximately 1 100 Erasmus interinstitutional agreements. Majority of the agreements was renewed after careful revision of already existing partnerships from LLP Erasmus and several new connections were set up.
The aim of the project was to retain our current numbers of outgoing student mobility for studies and academic mobility. Furthermore, we tried to increase the numbers of outgoing student mobility for work placement and staff training. Masaryk University was one of the first Czech universities which took part in the recent graduate mobility and sent out 10 participants, which is a sign of success. Furthermore, we created a methodology for allocating additional financial support for CZ and SK students coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Despite the initial struggle at the beginning of the program’s existence (non-functioning Mobility tool, non-existence of key documents for student mobility, change in methodology of the grant calculations, unclear position of recent graduate placements, etc.), MU has managed to implement the program within its regulations and outgoing mobilities did not suffer. For years now, the program has had a good reputation at MU and Erasmus+ and its activities are firmly anchored within the institution.
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