Mobility

The Erasmus Program is a sub-program of Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) which aims to support the creation of an European Higher Education Area and to reinforce the contribution to the higher education and advanced vocational training in the process of innovation across Europe.

OTHER OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM ARE:

• To contribute to the development of a high quality lifelong learning and its possibilities;
• To strengthen personal motivation, social cohesion, active citizenship and European citizenship;
• To promote creativity, competitiveness and employability;
• To increase the participation in lifelong learning;
• To promote learning and diversity of languages;
• To explore innovative results, products and processes.

The Erasmus Program supports the mobility of students and both academic and non-academic staff in Europe. It also promotes the relationships among Higher Education Institutions through Intensive Programmes, Academic and Structural Networks and Multilateral Projects.

ACTIONS

• Mobility for Students
  • Student mobility Studies (SMS)
  • Student mobility Placements (SMP)
• Mobility for Staff Teaching Assignment (STA)
  • Teaching staff of a National Higher Education Institution (HEI) - teach at a foreign HEI
  • Staff of a foreign company, invited by a National HEI - teach at a National HEI
• Mobility for Staff Training (STT)
  • Teaching staff and non-teaching staff of a National Higher Education Institution (HEI) - for training in a foreign HEI;
  • Teaching staff and non-teaching staff of a National HEI - for training in a foreign company
• Erasmus Intensive Language Courses (EILC)
  • Frequency
  • Organization
• Intensive Programmes (IP)

USEFUL WEBSITES

http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm
http://pt-europa.proalv.pt/public/PortalRender.aspx?PageID={f4e1b936-c518-4e48-bf2b-d7704aa1a42b}

PROALV
Portuguese National Agency for the Management of Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP)
Praça de Alvalade, 12
1749-070 Lisboa
Tlf.: (+351) 213 944 760
Fax.: (+351) 213 944 737
Email: agencianacional@proalv.pt

Mobility / inter-institutional cooperation activities are coordinated by the Erasmus Office. This service is led by an Erasmus institutional coordinator who works directly with the Erasmus pedagogical coordinator of each program and the academic authorities.

The Erasmus institutional coordinator has to celebrate bilateral agreements with foreign institutions; manage the exchange of CESPU students, teachers, researchers and staff; organize the activities of reception and integration of foreign students, teachers, researchers and staff.

The Erasmus pedagogical coordinators have to select the candidates to mobility programs; define the Learning / Training Agreements and ensure its academic recognition; provide pedagogical support to incoming students; collaborate in the activities of reception of incoming students, teachers, researchers and staff.

Standard mobility (studies, placements, teaching assignments, staff training), Intensive Programs, networks and other cooperation projects are key factors for CESPU development and are promoted by the Erasmus office and the pedagogical departments by email, social networks, collective and personal meetings. Support and recognition measures are specified in CESPU regulations and are published well before the projects beginning, in order to inform/prepare the stakeholders. Results dissemination and exploitation are made by the website and communicated in collective sessions.

ERASMUS TEAM AND CONTACTS

ERASMUS OFFICE
Rua Central de Gandra, 1317
4585-116 Gandra, PRD – PORTUGAL
Tlf.: (+351) 224 157 200
Fax: (+351) 224 157 102
Email: sara.gama@cespu.pt

ERASMUS INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATOR OF CESPU

Sara Gama | sara.gama@cespu.pt

The responsible for establishing and implementing inter-institutional agreements is the Erasmus Institutional Coordinator, with acknowledge and approval of CESPU direction. Proposals can be made by CESPU Erasmus Pedagogical Coordinators, teachers and students or foreign institutions. The first ones already have instructions to select partners based on geographical diversity, compatibility of the academic profiles (level, curricular programs) and main regulations. Teachers and students from CESPU as foreign institutions’ proposals must be presented to the Erasmus Office, in person or by e-mail (sara.gama@cespu.pt). Then, the Erasmus Institutional Coordinator follows it to the respective pedagogical departments to be evaluated according to the same principals. . During the length of any of the agreements the Erasmus Institutional Coordinator and CESPU Quality Office monitor and evaluate the cooperation developed (based on quantity and quality) and determine if it shall be renewed.

Universitat de Barcelona (E BARCELO 01)
www.ub.edu

Universidad de Oviedo (E OVIEDO 01)
www.uniovi.es

Universitat de Valência (E VALENCI 01)
www.uv.es

Universidad CEU – Cardenal Herrera (E VALENCI 08)
www.uch.ceu.es

Universitat Rovira I Virgili (E TARRAGO 01)
www.urv.cat

Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (E BILBAO 01)
www.ehu.es

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (E SANTIAG 01)
www.usc.es

Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicent Martir (E VALENCI 11)
www.ucv.es

UAX - Universidad Alfonso X “El Sabio” (E MADRID17)
www.uax.es

Universidad de A Coruña (E LA-CORU01)
www.udc.es

UEX - Universidad de Extremadura (E BADAJOZ01)
www.unex.es

Université Lille 2 Droit et Santé (F LILLE 02)
www.univ-lille2.fr

Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III (F TOULOUS 03)
www.ups-tlse.fr

Université de Lorraine (F NANCY 43)
www.univ-lorraine.fr

Université Paris Descartes (F PARIS 005)
www.univ-paris5.fr

Haute Ecole Libré Mosane – HELMo (B LIEGE 37)
www.helmo.be

Università degli Studi di Pavia (I PAVIA 01)
www.unipv.it

Università degli Studi di Sassari (I SASSARI 01)
www.uniss.it

Mikkelin ammattikorkeakoulu – Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences (SF MIKKELI 06)
www.mamk.fi

Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj-Napoca (RO CLUJNAP 03)
www.umfcluj.ro

Kláipédos Valstybiné Kolegija (KVK) - Klaipèda State College (LT KLAIPED 09)
www.klvtk.lt

Pécsi Tudományegyetem - University of Pécs (HU PECS 01)
www.pte.hu

Visoka Zdravstvena šola v Celju – College of Nursing in Celje (SI CELJE 08)
www.vzsce.si

Univerzita Pardubice (CZ PARDUB 01)
www.upce.cz

Trakia University Stara Zagora (BG STARA-Z 01)
www.uni-sz.bg

Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Education in Biala Podlaska (PL BIALA 01)
www.pswbp.pl

Latvijas Universitātes P. Stradiņa medicīnas koledža - P. Stradins Medical College of The University of Latvia (LV JURMALA 03)
www.psk.lu.lv

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (G THESSAL 01)
www.auth.gr

The Erasmus program offers students the possibility of making a study period at an European Higher Education Institution (HEI), or a curricular / extra-curricular placement at an European IES / enterprise.

The mobility period should have a minimum duration of 3 months and maximum of 12 months.

PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS

1. Students must be enrolled and attending a course in order obtain a diploma or other recognized qualification, from 1^st cycle to the doctoral degree.
2. Students must be nationals of participating member state in the Erasmus program, or nationals of another country, since enrolled in a regular course at participating country HEI.
3. In 1st Cycle Studies and Integrated Masters, the student must be enrolled at least in the 2nd year of studies in Higher Education. This rule does not apply to mobility for placements. The implementation of Erasmus mobility depends on the fully completion of the 1st academic year (60 ECTS credits).

APPLICATIONS

The students interested in doing a part of their curriculum at a foreign higher education institution or an internship at a foreign institution / enterprise, under Erasmus program, must:

1. Get informed about the general conditions of the program;
2. Get informed about the application process in CESPU;
3. Formalize the application within the specific period and using the official application form:

a. Information

Before completing the application form students must gather information from CESPU Erasmus Office CESPU, the Erasmus Pedagogical Coordinator of the respective department / course and the Website of the institutions to which they wish to apply, and CONSULT the following documents:

• Erasmus Academic Calendar for the Mobility of Outgoing Students;
• Erasmus Procedures for the for the Mobility of Outgoing Students;
• Selection criteria to be used in the seriation of the course in which students are enrolled;
• Erasmus Bilateral Agreements;
• Internal Regulations for the Mobility of Students;
• Regulations for Conversion of Foreign Classifications;
• Specific Regulations of the course in which students are enrolled.

b. Seriation and Placing

Once the eligibility criteria are met, the selection and seriation of candidates are sole responsibility of the Erasmus Pedagogical Coordinator Erasmus of each department / course. The selection criteria are:

* Intermediate and final scores will be rounded to the hundredth.

c. Required Documentation

• Application Form;
• Copies of ID card, fiscal number card and visa (for non Portuguese students);
• Foreign Language Course Certificate(s), if applicable.

The Erasmus Service will add the transcript of records to these documents.

LEARNING / TRAINING AGREEMENT AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITION

Mobility is ensured by the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), based on the principle of mutual recognition of the value of training undertaken and competences acquired.

Full academic recognition means that the period of study abroad (including examinations and other forms of assessment) replaces a comparable period of study at the home university (including examinations and other forms of assessment), although the content of the curriculum can vary.

Before students going abroad, CESPU defines their Learning / Training Agreement in collaboration with the host institutions. At CESPU, the In CESPU, the responsible for preparing these plans are the Erasmus Pedagogical Educational Coordinators.

At the end of the mobility the host institutions must issue a Transcript of Records / Work with the number of credits and the grades achieved by the student.

According to ECTS system, when students successfully complete the workload required and the assessment of the learning outcomes as previously agreed, credits are transferred to their degree program (studies and curricular placements mobility) and to the Diploma Supplement (studies, curricular and extra-curricular placements mobility).

If the student makes a traineeship at an enterprise, the workload is measured in credits and fully transferred by the same procedures. The results are expressed in groups of competencies, which determine the knowledge that the student will have their capabilities and skills matching to the predefined objectives of training.

LEARNING A LANGUAGE BEFORE MOBILITY

The required language(s) proficiency is previously agreed with our partners and it's used as one of mobility programs selection criteria, which implies previously preparation before being selected to go abroad. CESPU has partnerships with Lancaster College and Aliance Française (languages teaching companies) where participants can enroll in multiple languages courses. After selection and placing, the Erasmus Office organizes several meetings for discussing mobility related issues - we highlight culture, language(s), in and outside opportunities to achieve the required language(s) proficiency, and useful networks. The Erasmus office provides information about EILCs in host countries, schedule, application procedures and deadlines. Please visit the webpage about Languages at CESPU to know more.

ERASMUS GRANT

Selection as an Erasmus student does not guarantee a mobility grant. The awarding of scholarships depends on the funding CESPU receives from the Portuguese National Agency every year. All the selected students are automatically candidates for an Erasmus grant. If CESPU funding is insufficient to assign a scholarship to all the selected students, it may need to apply award criteria. The main criteria to be considered will be the socio-economic situation of the student, by confirming whether or not they are beneficiary from Social Services.

The amount of the Erasmus grant is fixed annually for each country, according to the reference table defined by the National Agency.

A student who does not receive an Erasmus grant can make the Erasmus mobility nevertheless, but will have the status of an "zero-grant" Erasmus student, with the same rights and duties of all the students who have grant.

Every student can benefit from an Erasmus grant for a study period and from an Erasmus grant for a placement, during his academic course.

The student who receives an Erasmus grant and do not get any academic achievement during the mobility period, must return the entire grant received, except in cases of force majeure, duly justified.

Students with socio-economic difficulties:

Students with socio-economic difficulties can apply for a Supplemental Erasmus Grant (BSE-SOC).

Students are eligible if they cumulatively receive an Erasmus grant, awarded by the respective higher education institution (HEI), and are fellows of Social Action in Higher Education.

The application process is done by the Erasmus Office, according to the information that will be disclosed in due course, to all the selected students.

Students with disabilities:

Students with disabilities benefit from special conditions of mobility, such a superior grant amount. More complete information about the mobility of students with disabilities may be obtained at the Erasmus Office.

TUITION FEES AND OTHER CHARGES

During the Erasmus mobility, the student continues to pay the respective tuition fees at CESPU. The student national grants and loans, shall not to be canceled or suspended, including the Social scholarship.

The Host Higher Education Institutions cannot ask the student any tuition fees (for tutoring, examinations, access to laboratories, etc.). However, small payments for insurance, student unions, photocopies, laboratory products can be charged, as normally charged by the home institution.

Information about CESPU and Portugal (application procedures, institution, main features and regulations, how to get to the Campuses, accommodation, food, visa and insurance requirements, student social networks) are available at the institution website and are sent by email to incoming participants soon after receiving the official nomination. Incoming participants have a personal counseling meeting at the Erasmus Office, are invited to request a “Buddy” student and to participate in: Collective Presentation Sessions, Portuguese Intensive Course, Social/Scientific Activities. Regularly monitoring and mentoring support for incoming participants is given by the respective pedagogical departments along their staying and the Erasmus Office, through face to face meetings, phone and email.

APPLICATIONS

Step 1. Application to Erasmus Program at Home Institution

Students who wish to undertake an Erasmus period of study / placement at CESPU must confirm at their institution the existence of a bilateral agreement between the two institutions of higher education which allows their mobility. After confirm the existence of the agreement, they must make an application to the Erasmus program at the home university.

Step 2. Official Nomination by the Home Institution

The home institutions must send to CESPU Erasmus Office the official list of nominated students (name, gender, field of study, type of mobility and electronic contact) by email (sara.gama@cespu.pt).

Step 3. Formalization of the Application to CESPU

The Erasmus Office sends to the students and their respective coordinators information about CESPU and required documents to formalize their official application.

Deadline for Applications

• Mobility for the 1^st Semester and Full Year: 1^st July 2013
• Mobility for the 2^nd Semester: 8^th November 2013

Required Documentation:

• Application Form;
• Learning / Training Agreement;
• Transcript of Records;
• Copies of ID Card, Health European Insurance or Private Insurance Card and VISA (for non-EU students);
• 2 small color photos;
• Foreign Language Course Certificate(s), if applicable.

These documents must be sent to CESPU Erasmus Office by email (sara.gama@cespu.pt) and by regular mail to:

CESPU – ERASMUS
Rua Central de Gandra, 1317
4585-116 Gandra PRD - Portugal

CESPU OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of CESPU is Portuguese, although we have teachers and staff with enough English, French and Spanish language proficiency to follow participants who don't speak Portuguese fluently.

For international students who want to make a mobility period at one of CESPU Schools, we recommend proficiency levels of A2 in Portuguese, A2 in Spanish and/or B2 in English. For more information about Language Courses at the institution, consult CESPU webpage about Languages at CESPU.

ERASMUS STUDENT NETWORK - PORTO

The Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is a student organization founded in 1990 to support and develop student mobility. There are ESN offices in several European cities, as Porto. Visit the ESN-Porto, sign up and receive information on activities, events, tours, etc.. organized throughout the year for mobility students. ESN-Porto has also been developing a support network to assist in the integration of student mobility. Please visit www.esnporto.org

To learn more about CESPU, return to the main webpage about Erasmus.

The Erasmus office is the responsible for organizing, promoting and supporting staff mobility. We give all practical and bureaucratic information by email, collective and personal sessions and organize several (net)meetings with outgoing/incoming staff in order to prepare them for the mobility period. This type of mobility aims to provide relevant practical skills to the performed tasks within the institution and to professional development. As CESPU staff members have to do at least 35 hours/year of training for career advancement, this mobility is recognized as training workload and it will be included in the staff evaluation forms, as recommended.

The country of origin or the host country must be an EU Member State.

TEACHING ASSIGNEMENTS (STA)

• Are eligible as candidates:
1. CESPU Teachers with Portuguese nationality, stateless persons, refugees or having the status of permanent resident, contracted under the Teaching Career Statute of Higher Education, on a full time basis.
• Eligible activities:
1. Short duration teaching programs at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with a bilateral agreement with CESPU.
2. The HEI partner should have agreed in advance with the teaching program to be taught by the teacher.
• Duration of mobility:
1. There is a requirement to teach at least 5 hours (at least one day) in order to provide an essential contribution to the teaching program as well as for the international academic life at the host institution. It may be accepted on an exceptional basis, shorter periods, if duly justified. The maximum duration is 6 weeks.

TRAINING (STT)

• Are elegible as candidates:
1. CESPU Teachers with Portuguese nationality, stateless persons, refugees or having the status of permanent resident, contracted under the Teaching Career Statute of Higher Education, on a full time basis.
2. CESPU Staff members on a full time basis with Portuguese nationality, stateless persons, refugees or having the status of permanent resident.
• Are elegible as candidates:
1. Professional training of practical nature at HEIs of other European countries (Erasmus partners or not) - Work Shadowing;
2. Professional training of practical nature at enterprises;
3. Participation in seminars, conferences, workshops, since it doesn’t represent the majority of training days;
4. The HEI or partner enterprise must have agreed in advance with the training program to be carried out by the teacher / staff.
• Are elegible as candidates:
1. The duration of mobility should be between 1 (5 days of work) to 6 weeks. Knowing though that sometimes it is difficult to the Institution staff absent for a week, shorter stays abroad are allowed. The organic unit must provide justification when mobility is less than 1 week.

APPLICATIONS

The interested persons in doing an Erasmus Teaching Assignement / Training Period must:

1. Get informed about the general conditions of the program;
2. Get informed about the application process in CESPU;
3. Formalize the application within the specific period and using the official application form:

• Information

Before completing the application form the candidates must gather information from CESPU Erasmus Office CESPU and the Website of the institutions to which they wish to apply.

• Selection

  The selection of candidates is in sole responsibility of CESPU Schools’ Directions. The selection criteria are available at the Erasmus Office.

• Required Documentation
1. Application Form;
2. Provisional Teaching Assignment / Training Program;
3. Copies of ID card, fiscal number card and visa (for non Portuguese persons);
4. Curriculum Vitae;
5. Foreign Language Course Certificate(s), if applicable.

BOLSA ERASMUS

The value of the Erasmus grants varies depending on the country of destination and the length of stay. The Erasmus grant are calculated according to the table of maximum mobility grants, prepared each academic year by the National Agency, and includes two items:

• Subsistence expenses or per diem

It is a fixed amount (per diem) by country of destination, calculated based on daily rates, and according to the duration of mobility. These values ​​are a contribution to the additional expenses incurred in the performance of the mobility abroad, such as accommodation, food, local travel, insurance, visa costs, telecommunications, internet, etc..

• Despesas de Viagem

It corresponds to the actual values ​​of the outward travel and return. Travel expenses are reimbursed when properly supported, upon presentation of respective invoices, tickets and boarding passes, and up to the maximum amount set for the heading "Travel" at the reference table from the National Agency.

Information about CESPU and Portugal (application procedures, institution, main features and regulations, how to get to the Campuses, accommodation, food, visa and insurance requirements, student social networks) are available at the institution website and are sent by email to the incoming participants.

Step 1. Application to Erasmus Program at Home Institution

Teachers / Staff who wish to undertake an Erasmus Teaching Assignment / Training period at CESPU must collect information and submit the application to the Erasmus Program at the home university and after contact CESPU Erasmus Office by the email sara.gama@cespu.pt

Step 2. Formalization of the Application to CESPU

The Erasmus Office sends information about CESPU and required documents to formalize the official application to applicant teachers / staff members.

Required Documentation:

• Application Form;
• Provisional Teaching Assignment / Training Program;
• Copies of ID Card, Health European Insurance or Private Insurance Card and VISA (for non-EU persons);
• Curriculum Vitae;
• Foreign Language Course Certificate(s), if applicable.

These documents must be sent to CESPU Erasmus Office by email (sara.gama@cespu.pt) and by regular mail to:

CESPU – ERASMUS
Rua Central de Gandra, 1317
4585-116 Gandra PRD - Portugal

The files are forwarded to CESPU host departments for analysis, who give the final opinion on the possibility of their integration at the institution.

CESPU OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of CESPU is Portuguese, although we have teachers and staff with enough English, French and Spanish language proficiency to follow participants who don't speak Portuguese fluently.

For international teachers and staff who want to come abroad, CESPU recommends proficiency levels of A2 in Portuguese, A2 in Spanish and/or B2 in English.

To learn more about CESPU, return to the main webpage about Erasmus.