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Dear partner,

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos  is delighted to invite you to the VII Erasmus+ International Week at URJC that it will take place in Madrid, Spain, from 24 to 28 April 2017. The aim is to provide an informative, collaborative and enriching experience to both guest and home staff and to share ideas and best practices related to internationalization.

The registration for the International Week is open here.

To participate, complete the online registration form and send the application in .pdf by e-mail to internacional.pdi_pas@urjc.es  no later than January 9th, 2017.

The final resolution will be on January 20th, 2017 and all applicants will be informed by e-mail confirming the results (acceptance or not acceptance).

For any question you can contact to internacional.pdi_pas@urjc.es.

Best wishes,

Soledad Carretero
Relaciones Internacionales – Rectorado 1ª planta (Dcho 109)
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
C/ Tulipán s/n Móstoles, 28933 Madrid
Tel 91488 7071
www.urjc.es

(as published in the SGroup News Bulletin 158)

In order to strengthen the SGroup’s global engagement the Executive Committee decided to capitalise on the member's’ presence and experience in Latin America and on the established contacts with HEIs and HE organisations, like FAUBAI association to bring together the SGroup’s members and their peers in LA with the aim of achieving common goals and capacity building.

In consultation with FAUBAI, the SGroup Network has identified possible new initiatives that can structure the co-operation better to achieve common goals and build necessary capacities. To this end, starting from 2017, the SGroup would like to propose the following activities:

• Set up a pool of experts in LA relations and collaboration composed from individual members from SGroup’s universities and their peers in LA;
• Promote academic mobility for administrators and academic staff from our members who can go for study visits in LA universities to investigate further co-operation opportunities, such as project activities or collaboration agreements; The mobility will be implemented within the framework of the Inter-Continental Academic Exchange Programme (ICon);
• Joint collaboration within the framework of agreed thematic groups;
• Consultancy activities for partners from both regions;
• Joint projects.

Individual representatives of our member institutions can sign up as experts for the Think Tank indicating their field of expertise and share ideas on how to improve the links with LA. To become the SGroup's Expert in LA relations please fill in this form.

Dear colleagues,

The University of Ljubljana is organising the Staff Training Days on May 15-18, 2017.  The  theme will be: Academic libraries' support for open science in the European Research Area. 

Please check herethe foreseen programme. Deadline for registration is April 1, 2017.

At this point we would like you to check our new Information for international exchange students – Why Ljubljana? 

Wish you a nice week,

Marija

The University of Porto participates, with its Faculty of Medicine, in a consortium of twelve higher education institutions from eleven European countries that was successful with a project proposal funded within the KA2Strategic Partnerships of the Erasmus+ programme, focused on sharing experience and development of educational materials related to academic integrity.

The ENAI Consortium consists of the Project Coordinator - Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic), University of Porto (Portugal), University of Konstanz (Germany), Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), Coventry University (UK), Nottingham Trent University (UK), Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey), Riga Technical University (Latvia), University of Insubria (Italy), University of Maribor (Slovenia), University of Nicosia (Cyprus) and Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (Slovakia).

With an overall budget of the project is approx. €280,000, for a three-year project,three intellectual outputs related with academic integrity will be produced:Educational materials for higher education teachers and students, a tool kit for cross-sector cooperation, and a handbook for improvements in several issues(including glossary, general guidelines and self-evaluation).

In addition, the vision of the project team goes much further. Laura Ribeiro, local coordinator of this project states that within this project, a European Network for Academic Integrity will be created, as a platform to promote academic integrity issues, sharing experiences, ideas, materials, etc. within Europe.Its goal is to help higher education institutions to prevent academic misconduct, and encourage discussion on academic and research integrity. The idea of creating a European platform is prompted by the need to develop institutional skills to manage academic ethics and to promote academic integrity through networking and exchange of good practices.

Pictures of the meeting held in Slovakia between 5th and 7th October 2016

The International Office of the Rectorate of the University of Porto organized, between November 7th and 11th, another edition of the InterWeek, a training week for staff from institutions from all around the world.

With this initiative, the University of Porto opened its doors to its partners and to any foreign university in order to strengthen international cooperation by encouraging the exchange of best practices and experiences.

Representatives with 30 nationalities from several different continents such as Africa, Asia, America and Europe participated in this edition in the framework of Cooperation Agreements and also the Erasmus+ (throught the MOBILE+ Project, coordinated by the U.Porto) and ERASMUS MUNDUS programmes, which allowed a great diversity and multiculturalism of the event.

The agenda of the week ended with the workshop “Working together in a changing world” with the special participation of the speaker Gerry Murray, Founder & CEO of Wide Circle.

The European Commission has published two online tutorials addressed to institutions from Partner Countries:

• Introduction to the international dimension of Erasmus+

• Erasmus+ How to prepare a competitive proposal

As referred on their website, these e-tutorials provide both an overview and a hint on how to apply to the funding opportunities offered by Erasmus+ to Higher Education Institutions and their staff and students based in Partner Countries outside the European Union.

We are currently looking for an intern in the Sales/Customer Service department for our branch in Madrid. Here you can find the description. 

We would be happy to offer one of your students this internship, and we would be greatful if you could pass it on to your students.

In case of interest, I will be glad to receive CVs through this email: fixed-term.Practicante1.RBIBHRC@es.bosch.com.

Muy atentamente / Best regards
Julia Pfeiffer
RR.HH. (RBIB/HRC1)
Robert Bosch España S.L.U.
C/ Hermanos García Noblejas 19, Madrid
RBIB/HRC1
Tel. +34(91)4104116

EURASHE will organise its 27th Annual Conference entitled ‘Professional Higher Education 4.0: A Change for Universities of Applied Sciences‘ in Le Havre (France) on 30-31 March 2017. It is organised by EURASHE and the IUT of Le Havre with the Assemblée des Directeurs d’Institut Universitaire de Technologie (ADIUT).

The call for for full breakout sessions, posters, and good practices closes on Thursday 15 December – accepted contributions can benefit from fee-waivers and covered accommodation.

All details of the conference are availble on EURASHE'S website.

MIMUN is an international conference which is held by the United Nations Association of Russia in cooperation with Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and under the auspices of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.

MIMUN 2017 will not only be a great opportunity for students to improve their language skills, but also to gain invaluable skills in diplomacy by being a delegate, a President of a Committee or an Expert. MIMUN 2017 will be held on 16th-21st of April, 2017.

In the 2017 Model there are going to be 12 committees, which will be using the six working languages of the UN. 

Detailed information can be found on the website www.modelun.ru.

The Vice-Rector for Cooperation and Culture of the University of Porto, Professor Maria de Fátima Marinho, has just been elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Universities (IAU), during the 15th General Assembly of IAU, held in Bangkok (Thailand), from 13 to 16 November 2016.

Read the full article here.