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Description
The project assures the opportunities for running of mobilities for students and academic/ administrative staff in the framework of the partnerships between TUIASI (“Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania) and 3 partner universities from Norway: NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway), NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and UiT (The Arctic University of Norway).
With this project we intend to improve the communication system between public organizations, administrative authorities (county / government) and civil society (also represented by local NGOs) in some demo site located Danube Delta and to provide dissemination of information of interest. The agreement with NTNU was signed recently in 2018 for the field of Enginnering for Master and Phd. students and academic staff. In November 2019 professor Daniela La Rosa from NTNU attended as a Training former the "International School for Ph.D. students and Researchers" organised at TUIASI in the period 24-30 october 2019. With this occasion both partner universities discussed and agreed on the extension of the agreement also for Bachelor students and added more mobility for academic and administrative staff.
The inter-institutional agreement between TUIASI and UiT came as a consequence of the participation at the "Staff Week with focus on EEA and Norway Grants" organised in Norway in the period 04-07 November 2019. Professor Irina Lungu, Vice-rector for International Relations within TUIASI took part at the Staff Week and met colleagues from the same area of interest from UiT, in this way the inter-institutional agreement has been established.
Summary of project results
At the university level this project is a continuation of the previous project implemented at our university level within the EEA grants and because in the last years we encountered some difficulties in sending students to our partner universities. Nowadays students can travel to Europe on their own, this being the main reason why the number of outgoing students decreased. In this respect, by applying to this project our university gave to students the opportunity to perform a mobility to a partner university in Norway and the mobility offer is wider. Learning mobility, that is transnational mobility for the purpose of acquiring new skills, is one of the fundamental ways through which individuals, particularly students, can strengthen their future employability as well as their personal development.
In this project was implemented only the mobility academic staff for teaching and training. During this project a total number of 9 mobilities were performed with just one partner university from Norway: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Summary of bilateral results
The university has signed the agreement with the partner university from Norway since 2014, but because the financing was very poor within the Erasmus+ or other programs the students could not afford to perform a mobility.In this respect starting with the EEA grants students can apply for mobility and benefit from this experience.It is very important to have a donor project partner because the value of the grants is higher compared to other European programs and this way the beneficiaries are more attracted to apply.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic our project has been very affected and the number of mobility was very low, a total number of 9 mobilities were conducted, out of which 4 mobility are from Norway to Romania (4 mobility for training staff) and 5 mobilities are from Romania to Norway (4 academic staff for training and 1 administrative staff for training ).Our project with Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) is continued, in this respect starting with 01.02.2022 the project 21-MPO-0019 is running.