Description
The Universitat de València is between the European five top universities regarding the number of outgoing Erasmus students. Nevertheless, there are certain destinations which are not highly demanded by our students. The objective of the project is to foster the participation of students at the Universitat de València in the European Union Erasmus programme so they can make a stay at one of the universities at the NILS countries and expects to promote the universities at NILS countries as destinations within the Erasmus mobility programme for undergraduate students as well as achieving a balance between the incoming and outgoing mobilities in the NILS countries and the Universitat de València. The number of Erasmus outgoing students at the NILS countries universities will lead to a future steady mobility scheme at those universities. The project is addressed to students enroled in degrees programmes at the Universitat de València interested in participating in the Erasmus programme.
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. University of Valencia University of Madrid 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, 49 students carried out stays at higher education institutions in Norway. All of them were Bachelor students. Out of them, 35 were women, that is, 71%, face to 14 men, 29%. These 49 students performed stays in 10 different institutions They performed around 225 months of stay and received an average grant of 4266 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 6,65 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 39,59 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. On the institutional side, moreover, University of Valencia has strengthened cooperation with Oslo University: they jointly submitted and won a proposal to the European Language Award (language training of Norwegian educational staff). “Valencia University shall train future teachers of Spanish language in Norway, we are very happy”, explains the vice‐dean of the Education School of Valencia University, José Ramón Insa. “Really, NILS programme has helped us opening new horizons”.
Summary of bilateral results
University of Valencia attempted to provide an international academic experience to 49 Spanish students in Norway and Iceland. These 49 students performed around 225 months of stay and received an average grant of 4266 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 6,65 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 39,59 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, University of Valencia attempted to mantain and even to increase the number of positions agreed within Erasmus+ programme with the partner institutions in Norway. 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.Moreover, University of Valencia has strengthened cooperation with Oslo University: they jointly submitted and won a proposal to the European Language Award (language training of Norwegian educational staff). “Valencia University shall train future teachers of Spanish language in Norway, we are very happy”, explains the vice‐dean of the Education School of Valencia University, José Ramón Insa. “Really, NILS programme has helped us opening new horizons”.