Description
The project aims to improve academic and research bilateral relations and employment promotion between University Rey Juan Carlos and institutions in Norway with which international agreements have been established. Through the partnerships, the possibility to create new agreements with other institutions and companies in the target countries will be explored. The main goal revolves around undergraduate and graduate student mobility and is oriented to all areas of student exchange available to date. The project aims at developing international curricula, the creation of tandem programs, the fostering of multilateral projects and international networks, project promotion and the increase of funding and support for transnational mobility projects. As a more specific result, a network of program ambassadors composed of students and teachers having benefited from the grant, will be established. This ensures sustainability of the project results.
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 Rey Juan Carlos 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, 6 students carried out stays at higher education institutions in Norway and Iceland. All of them were Bachelor students Out of them, 5 were men, that is, 83%, face to a woman, 17%. All of them performed stays in Norway, at three different institutions. These 6 students performed around 34 months of stay and received an average grant of 5870 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 5.65 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 40.42 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
University Rey Juan Carlos attempted to provide an international academic experience to 6 Spanish students in Norway. These 6 students performed around 34 months of stay and received an average grant of 5870 euro per person for the whole period, with an average length of stay of 5.65 months. Their study period received an official recognition of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), with an average of 40.42 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 Rey Juan Carlos 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.