Erasmus+

Erasmus+ short-term Mobility programs promote, in higher education, student and academic mobility.

Among students, mobility activities aim to: 

• improve learning performance;
• enhance employability and improved career prospects;
• increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
• increase self-empowerment and self-esteem;
• improve foreign language competences;
• enhanced intercultural awareness;
• enhance their active participation in society;
• make a better awareness of the European project and the EU values;
• increased motivation for taking part in future (formal/non-formal) education or training after the mobility period abroad.

As regards academic staff, the mobility activities are expected to produce the following outcomes:

• improved competences, linked to their professional profiles;
• increased capacity to trigger changes in terms of modernisation and international opening within their educational organisations;
• greater understanding of interconnections between formal and non-formal education, vocational training and the labour market respectively;
• better quality of their work and activities in favour of students;
• greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity;
• increased opportunities for professional and career development;
• improved foreign language competences;
• increased motivation and satisfaction in their daily work.