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Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship Completed

18-MOB-0052 - Mobility Project

University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi ·Romania

€262k
Grant awarded
Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship
Programme
28 May 2019
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About this project

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif">One of the main priorities of the partnerships between "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi (UAIC) and EEA higher education institutions is to expand the international academic cooperation. On the one hand, UAIC aims at attracting students and staff from EEA institutions to choose UAIC for a study/traineeship/teaching or training mobility. Within the past few years, UAIC has witnessed an evergrowing desire of students deciding to take up Norwegian classes provided by the Faculty of Letters. In addition, a significant number of students undergoing an EAA mobility at one of our partner institutions this semester has informed us about their wish to extend their study or traineeship mobility. In this respect, EEA Programme offers UAIC the opportunity to address to these requirements and challenges, both in terms of students' and staff'.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif">The main objective of this project is to strengthen the cooperation between UAIC and EEA institutions by promoting academic excellence and institutional improvement, by exchanging and acquiring good practice, and reducing mobility obstacles.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif">There are three types of target groups that are expected to benefit from mobility exchanges: students and staff from UAIC, students and staff from the three partner countries, and UAIC and EEA partner institutions, in general. In addition to the academic knowledge, the students (from UAIC and partner countries) will have the opportunity to develop and acquire new linguistic skills, to become more familiarized with a new environment etc. On the other hand, incoming and outgoing staff are expected to exchange and to acquire new good practices, to improve student services and academic curricula.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif">Donor partners are higher education institutions and other institutions in EEA countries. Whereas both HEIs and private institutions will play the role of host institutions for UAIC students and staff, only HEIs will act as home institutions for students and staff benefitting from mobilities to UAIC.</span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

During the previous EEA projects, UAIC has witnessed a great desire for students to have academic experiences in the EEA outside the EU. This desire can be illustrated, for example, by the large number of students enrolled in the optional Norwegian language course and the large number of applications and mobilities in the former EEA Programme. The 2-year suspension of the EEA Programme has had a serious impact with respect to the number of mobilities carried out in these countries.The bilateral collaboration is planned to continue, both through the EEA Grants and through Erasmus+ Programme.

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