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

A key objective of working with the Erasmus+ project is transfer of knowledge, implementing innovation and promoting development in the health (education) sector. Through international exchange activities, new skills for new jobs are identified and evaluated and thus achieves a higher flexibility in the labor market. A key strategic goal is the promotion of staff mobility, because it combines the elements of mobility, staff development and international experience. The development goal is the transfer of knowledge with comparable international educational institutions and the acquisition of new international cooperation partners with special innovative priorities. Besides staff act as motivator for students to go abroad and helps to implement acquired know how into the curriculum. The promotion of student mobility is of fundamental importance in terms of acquisition of new competences and higher qualifications on the international labor market. The close cooperation of the international office with the departments ensures a high quality and recognition of these activities at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions. The placements which happend to be abroad, are part of the curriculum and are all graded. Additionally the study exchange is a major concern of our University of Applied Sciences. Currently, this mobility action is still under development but in progress. In frame of this Erasmus+ project a total of 30 people were mobile. 21 students did a placement mobility, 1 person went for a staff mobility for teaching and 8 persons participated in the staff mobilites for training. The countries visited were Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republik and Malta. With this project an increase of mobility numbers could be achieved to the previous project. The students participating were all on Bachelor level. Since the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions only offers Bachelor study programmes in the health professions, most of the internships happend to be at health care institutions like clinics and such. The majority of visits of staff mobilities happend directly at universities abroad. Main purpose of these visits was to acquire new partnerships and strengthen existing ones, to generate new knowledge in the field of teaching methods and to bring back and implement this knowledge in our institution. All mobile persons reported a fundamentally positive experience. The close cooperation of the departments with the International Office enables high individual support of students in the organization and preparation of the placements. Annually organized information sessions directly at the sites as well as shared experiences of students increase motivation and commitment in the field of international exchange. These experiences are additionally provided in written form on the e-learning platform of the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions. The International Office fosters the personal exchange of experiences between individual students and experienced persons. The increasing mobility numbers show the positive impact of this work on staff and students.
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