Description
The project is addressed to undergraduate students interested in doing a mobility exchange stay for study purposes (SMS Erasmus) during the academic year 2014/15. The participation in the NILS programme will enable the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to send more students to Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The possibility of giving scholarships other than the Erasmus grant opens more options to students with difficulties to afford an exchange stay in these countries. The goal of this project is to reactivate the students' mobility for study purposes and strengthen the cooperation bonds, academic and scientific, between UAB and the universities of these countries. As the call for applications will be open simultaneously to the Erasmus one and the demand will probably be high, the award of the scholarships will be prioritized taking into account the transcript of records and the knowledge of English and German languages and those students applying for a stay in Liechtenstein.
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. Autonomous University of Barcelona 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, 33students carried out stays at education institutions in Norway and Iceland. All of them were Bachelor students. Out of them, 21 were women, that is, 64%, and the other 12 were men, 36%. Main destination country was Norway with 28 students in 11 different institutions; 5 students were hosted in two higher education institutions in Iceland. These 33 students performed around 188 months of stay, receiving an average grant of 3.405 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 5,7 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 29 ECTS per student.
Summary of bilateral results
Autonomous University of Barcelona attempted to provide an international academic experience to 33 Spanish students in Norway and Liechtenstein . These 33 students performed around 188 months stay, of of which receiving an average grant of 3.405 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 5.7 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 29 ECTS per student. For them, this experience has a great value at a personal and academic level, and probably a professional level in the future, too. On the institutional side, Autonomous University of Barcelona attempted to consolidate their Erasmus + agreements with partner institutions in Norway, increasing the number of available positions and will continue exchanging students with them. 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.