Description
The aim of the project is to broaden and deepen the academic relationship between the Ramon Llull University (URL) and the participating countries and universities through academic exchange and internships. The project promotes student mobility for studies and professional placements in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, making these destinations, host universities and enterprises better known to the students of Ramon Llull University. The project is expected to increase mobility flows to these countries, to get to know life in an academic and an enterprise environment and to establish new collaboration agreements. The project is expected to benefit degree and master students making an academic or an internship stay in these countries, and to the present and prospective participating universities and enterprises.
Summary of project results
The crisis situation in Spain threatens the bilateral mobility at bachelor and master level with donor states, due to the higher cost of living at these countries and the reduction of funds available for students for this purpose. NILS programme and the project intended to contribute to mantaining or increasing the students mobility from Spain to Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, within the frame of the Erasmus+ programme. Ramon Llull University managed a call addressed to its students at Bachelor and Master levels, in connection with the institutional Erasmus+ call, in order to promote and fund stays to be performed in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. As a result, 8 students carried out stays at higher education institutions in Norway and Iceland. All of them were Bachelor students Out of them, 6 were women, that is, 75%, face to 2 men, 25%. Main destination country was Norway with 6 students in 4 different institutions; 2 students were hosted in one Icelandic higher education institution. These 8 students performed around 34 months of stay and received an average grant of 3913 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 4.21 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 30 ECTS per student. Most of the students declare that without the NILS grant they wouldn't have been able to perform their stay. They also declare that such stay shall be beneficiary for them on the academic side, but also at professional and personal levels.
Summary of bilateral results
Ramon Lull University attempted to provide an international academic experience to 8 Spanish students in Norway and Iceland. These 8 students performed around 34 months of stay and received an average grant of 3913 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 4.21 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 30 ECTS per student. For them, this experience has a great value at a personal and academic level, and probably at professional level in the future, too. On the institutional side, Ramón Llull University attempted to mantain and even to increase the number of positions agreed within Erasmus+ programme with the partner institutions in Norway and Iceland, and is discussing further cooperation agreements within that frame. The project provided the opportunity both to students and to the institution to enhance and to deepen bilateral relations as well as to increase the visibility of such mobility and relations in both sides.