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Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship Completed

Mobility project EY-MPO-0042

University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi ·Romania

€277k
Grant awarded
Education, Scholarships, Apprenticeships and Youth Entrepreneurship
Programme
25 May 2018
Signed

About this project

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The project was needed to further expand the scope of University "Al. I. Cuza" of Iasi (UAIC) academic international cooperation mainly by attracting EEA students and staff to choose UAIC as their exchange destination, by offering students and staff from UAIC the possibility to study, teach or train in EEA institutions and by designing future projects and joint activities.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The main purpose is to develop and improve the cooperation between university and EEA HEIs through the promotion of academic excellence and institutional improvement, reduction of mobility obstacles, exchange of good practices and internationalization at home.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The EEA exchanges will provide students with specialized knowledge not only in their fields of study, but also on the cultures of all countries involved, meaningful experience and linguistic proficiency. The staff exchanges will lead to new curriculum design and teaching/assessment methods and implementation of good practices.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">There are three categories of beneficiaries of mobility exchanges: students and staff from UAIC, students and staff from donor countries, as well as UAIC and EEA partner institutions as a whole. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Students will have the opportunity to adapt to a new environment (academic, cultural, social and linguistic), to improve their foreign language skills, to improve their academic skills and to develop a strong and responsible personality. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The academic staff will discover different teaching and assessment methods and different curriculum content.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The administrative staff will have the possibility of exchanging good practices with their colleagues from partner institutions and to improve their skills in organizing student services. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The project will increase the quantity and quality of the EEA mobility exchanges which are still expected to grow into cooperation projects of research of common interest. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The donor partnership could better connect different public and private actors across the EEA and Romanian territory.</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 generated numerous reactions and questions from students and staff from UAIC and its partners, together with a significant decrease in the number of mobilities in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein (funded through other international programmes). The bilateral collaboration is planned to continue, both through the EEA Grants and through the Erasmus+ Programme.

Project partners

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