Bachelor and Master Students from Spanish Institutions in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein

Project facts

Project promoter:
Rovira and Virgili University
Project Number:
ES07-0009
Target groups
Students
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€36,029
Final project cost:
€18,738
From EEA Grants:
€ 18,738
The project is carried out in:
Tarragona

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Description

In the current economic crisis context, this project is an incentive for our students wishing to do an exchange period abroad in order to have more opportunities to participate in it. The overall goal of the project is to help URV undergraduate and master students to perform an academic exchange Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein under the Erasmus program and to cope with the cost of living in these countries. It aims to ensure the internationalization process established in our university, and especially to promote the exchange of students between the URV and these countries. The main beneficiary group of the project is the URV students participating in the NlLS call and that may enhance their training and personal baggage through this experience. In addition, the university will develop closer links with partner universities.

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. Rovira i Virgili 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, 5 students carried out stays at a higher education institution in Norway. All of them were Bachelor students Out of them, 4 were women, that is, 80%, face to 1 man, 20%. Single destination country was Norway. These 5 students performed around 15 months of stay and received an average grant of 3600 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 3.1 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 19.60 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

Rovira i Virgili University attempted to provide an international academic experience to 5 Spanish students in Norway. These 5 students performed around 20 months of stay and received an average grant of 3600 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 3.1 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 19.60 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, Rovira I Virgili University attempted to mantain and the number of positions agreed within Erasmus+ programme with the partner institution 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.