Erasmus+

Our Erasmus Policy Statement covers the following activities:

1. Erasmus Key Action 1 (KA1) - Learning mobility: The mobility of higher education students and staff
2. Erasmus Key Action 2 (KA2) - Cooperation among organizations and institutions: Partnerships for Cooperation and exchanges of practices

By participating in the Erasmus+ program WSB Merito University in Poznań aims to increases not only the number of international students, faculty members, and administrative staff but also makes it possible for its own students, and staff to go abroad and gain competencies and skills that would be difficult to gain in the home institution. By participating in the Erasmus+ program we aim to create an international experience for staff and students, increase cross-cultural awareness and diversity, build environment-friendly awareness, shape civic engagement attitudes, and prepare staff and students for a global future. To achieve these aims we have developed a set of more specific objectives.

By participating in Erasmus+ we intend to:

1. Promote sustainable development for education that covers diversity, intercultural awareness, tolerance, social responsibility and ethics
2. Increase availability of highly qualified manpower equipped with digital, intercultural and multilingual skills
3. Provide access to quality higher education by collaborating with foreign partners whose academic profiles are compatible with ours and who, if possible, have international accreditations
4. Improve skills and competencies of students and staff through mobility schemes to increase their employability
5. Strengthen cooperation between higher education institutions and business partners
6. Enhance the internationalization at home
7. Develop programs and curricula with participating institutions, which is an initial step towards a European Education Area
8. Enable students and staff to benefit linguistically, culturally and professionally from a different environment
9. Further develop towards a higher education institution that is perceived as international, innovative, modern and socially responsible
10. Benefit from practices, policies and management processes of partner institutions so that we can modernize and innovate our own practices, policies, management and teaching
11. Establish new professional contacts that will help develop joint projects​

Alignment with strategic objectives

The KA1 activities are in line with WSB Merito University's strategic objectives such as: higher global recognition; creating an international experience for staff and students; increasing cross-cultural awareness and diversity; building environment-friendly awareness; shaping civic engagement attitudes; and prepare staff and students for a global future.​

Management and responsibilities

All the activities within Action KA1 will be coordinated, managed, and administered by the International Relations Office. The IRO has enough human resources to implement and manage these activities successfully. In the first place we will define a scope of responsibilities for particular IRO team members to avoid the overlapping of tasks. The main division of tasks will go along the following line: incoming/outgoing students; incoming/outgoing staff. We intend to engage WSB ESN in some of the KA1 Activities. We plan to implement the KA1 Activities according to a three-stage scheme.​

Stage 1 – preparatory phase (before mobilities)

• review of and signing existing interinstitutional agreements, finding new partners and signing agreements,
• preparing a course-catalog,
• developing qualification and selection procedures,
• launching a promotional campaign on Erasmus+ mobility opportunities among students, teaching staff, and administrative staff by means of different communication channels (emailing, Internet, Intranet, Extranet, social media, posters, meetings),
• building a buddy system,
• recruitment (outgoing) and acceptance (incoming) of candidates,
• providing all the necessary information for incoming participants (cultural, formal and organizational issues)
• collecting all the necessary documents, signing agreements with the beneficiaries, making payments of grants according to the Erasmus+ program rules, forwarding appropriate documents to the partner university,
• preparation of welcome packs for incoming participants,
• providing assistance with accommodation, health care, visa, insurance etc.
• pick-up service from the airport/train station/bus station
• organizing orientation days for newly-arrived participants (the participants will learn about procedures, regulations, and some other formal issues pertaining to the host country and university)
• preparation of the participants for outgoing mobility in terms of cultural, technical, formal and social issue by organizing appropriate courses​.

Stage 2 – realization of mobilities

• monitoring outgoing and incoming mobilities in cooperation with partner institutions
• providing institutional support for the beneficiaries, especially in emergency situations or conflict-related situations
• staying in touch with the participants and partner institutions via email, phone, Internet communicators
• organizing inter-cultural events/sessions/courses
• providing buddy system
• compiling adequate documents (certificates, reports, agreements, and questionnaires)​

Stage 3 – after the mobility

• collecting different certificates, reports, and questionnaires,
• dissemination of the project results,
• ensuring the results are sustainable,
• creating Erasmus+ ambassadors who will be able to share their experience with future participants,
• submitting by WSB the final report in due time,
• analysis of the results and making conclusions about further development of activities,
• implementing good practices and innovative solutions.​