Abstract
The international exchanges for teaching performed by lecturers of higher education institutions in any academic field, as well as the mobility for training carried out by administrative staff in the form of participation in events or observation periods in the workplace, is a strategic activity of the Erasmus+programme. The action is of great interest for the scientific community and has created great expectations, because staff mobility could well be a significant incentive not only for individual professional growth, but also a boost for the development of higher education institutions’ international policies. Its impact, in fact, can reflect on the institution as a whole, contributing to performing better institutional strategies and smooth governance, as well as strengthened international cooperation. The results of Erasmus staff mobility in European universities have been examined in various studies such as the EU Erasmus+Annual Reports and the REALISE project. This paper intends to raise the awareness on the importance of these international exchanges involving higher education institution staff and to provide some guidelines with which to develop a successful activity within the next Erasmus+programme edition. An increased participation to this action will provide academic and administrative staff with valuable opportunities to develop new expertise, improve language proficiency and develop intercultural skills thus broadening professional horizon.
Paola Clara Leotta is the author of Abstract, Keywords and Introduction, approaches, method-ologies and dataset while Vincenza Tutino is the author of Results and Conclusion.
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The present article discusses selected outcomes of the REALISE projects in which the authors have participated respectively as the Internationalisation and Erasmus Coordinator of the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Catania and as a member of the key-staff of the project. The whole project can be found via https://realise-erasmusplus.fr/. On the website of the REALISE project videos of some success stories are also available. Acknowledgements also go to the other members of the REALISE working group of the University of Catania: Adriana Di Stefano, Teodora Nicoleta Pascu and Maria Luisa Leotta.
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Leotta, P.C., Tutino, V. (2022). A Simple User Guide for Erasmus+ Teaching and Training. The Case of the University of Catania. In: Gude Prego, J.J., de la Puerta, J.G., García Bringas, P., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems and 12th International Conference on European Transnational Educational (CISIS 2021 and ICEUTE 2021). CISIS - ICEUTE 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87872-6_24
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