Staff mobility between Riga Stradins University and University of Iceland to establish scientific collaboration in the nutrition field
Riga Stradins University ·Latvia
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Due to current situation with the Covid-19, project partners have come to conclusion that there is a need to pay much more attention to the student - centered learning, blended learning and adaptation of different teaching methods. It demands sharing of academic and administrative staff expertise and enhance future cooperation of the involved institutions. Both project partners are looking for opportunities to increase the quality of studies and to find the best solutions for integrating research into the study process. The unifying factor is study programmes in nutrition carried out in both universities. As there is no previous international cooperation experience between project partners, the foreseen mobility of staff within the project will serve as a first step in the development of further bilateral cooperation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The goal of the project is to e</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">xchange knowledge and experience of the academic and administrative staff of Riga Stradiņš University and University of Iceland in order to increase the quality of studies by improving the content of nutrition study courses, teaching methods, knowledge transfer to the labour market environment, and integration of the latest research in the study process.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Direct target group of the project is academic and administrative staff (5 outgoing and 2 incoming mobilities), but indirectly, by using the mobility results, also students will bet positively affected.</span></span></p> <p>The main tasks of the project are to exchange experiences of organizing courses in nutrition field, to improve course content, to define the direction of academic and scientific collaboration, and to consider the possibilities of bilateral mobilities of students. The project will also define academic and scientific collaboration directions.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
5 Outgoing (to Iceland) and 2 Incoming mobilities (to Latvia) were conducted. Representative of University of Iceland actively participated in preparation stage for outgoing mobility, participated in academic and business visits and discussed further cooperation. Thanks to the implemented project, student mobility was promoted for both the sending side and the receiving side. The implementation of the project helped to implement the goals set also in the Academy's Strategy regarding internationalization (student mobility). Mutual cooperation with the Volda University College both within the Erasmus+ program and other projects will be continued.
Project partners
- University of Iceland Donor project partner· Iceland