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Erasmus Placement: Put It Into Practice

Erasmus Placement: Put It Into Practice. Rome, November 20, 2009. Mobility in the EU: Leonardo da Vinci Erasmus Placement Our established experience University of Rome Tor Vergata. Leonardo da Vinci mobility - 1.

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Erasmus Placement: Put It Into Practice

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  1. Erasmus Placement: Put It Into Practice Rome, November 20, 2009

  2. Mobility in the EU:Leonardo da VinciErasmus PlacementOur established experienceUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata

  3. Leonardo da Vinci mobility - 1 • Tor Vergata has been running and managing Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects for 9 years, since Comett. Up to 2006 both graduates and undergraduates applied for a training within the EU through Leonardo da Vinci competitions. • Why have we been working on Placements for so long?

  4. Leonardo da Vinci mobility - 2 • Through our projects, during the last few years, a total number of about 450participants found a 24 week placement in European enterprises.

  5. Our Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects for graduates • Last project approved: JOBS-4-GRADUATES, 2010, 100 participants • UNIGRADUATE 3, 2008, 93 participants • UNIGRADUATE 2, 2007, 70 participants • UNIGRADUATE, 2006, 83 participants

  6. Our Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects for students • UNIROMATRAINING 5, 2007, 52 participants • UNIROMATRAINING 4, 2006, 73 participants • UNIROMATRAINING 3, 2005, 77 participants

  7. Our experience in Leonardo da Vinci mobility • We have always coordinated Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects for the four Roman public universities: Tor Vergata, Sapienza, Roma Tre, University of Rome Foro Italico, offering trainings to participants from a wide range of academic fields and backgrounds.

  8. Leonardo da Vinci: PLM only • As of 2007 - EU guidelines (2007-2013) -Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects started being destined only to PLM – people in the labour market, that is to say graduates, and not students anymore.

  9. Leonardo da Vinci on the way to LLP-Erasmus Placement • In the new LLP program the ‘old’ Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects for students became part of the sub program Erasmus placement • Tor Vergata University started with a first Erasmus Placement project in 2007, helping 13 students, from our University, to find a placement within the EU.

  10. Erasmus Student Placement:Consortium • In 2008 Tor Vergata created a Consortium of 6 italian universities (Tor Vergata, University of Roma Tre, University of Rome Foro Italico, University of Pavia, University of Salento, University of Cagliari) allowing a total number of 104 students to get a placement within the EU during 2009.

  11. Our partnership in the EU • Through the years, the Leonardo da Vinci - Erasmus Placement office has created a partnership of over 400 enterprises which select and offer placements to both graduates and undergraduates • We started our partners research abroad by proposing Placement profiles to our established Leonardo da Vinci partnership.

  12. Our daily experience - 1 • We highly focus on being in touch with our partner universities in the consortium, keeping them up-to-date with the news about the project, checking that they regularly send us all the paper work. • We created a data base which includes all the students’ applications, their CVs, details of the companies offering trainings.

  13. Our daily experience - 2 • Each partner university through its own account, can have access to their students’ information and update the data base for everybody to use • We created a System (office access only) in which contracts and training agreements for each student can be downloaded from the data base, so that we all have the same documents to work on • We also created a Personal student page (students access only), in which each participant can find all the documents needed for his placement to be successfully carried out, such as Transcript of work and Final Report

  14. Good practice: Leonardo da Vinci • Leonardo da Vinci Data Base • 4 universities, all academic fields, wide offer to all the participants • Data Base as a starting point • Active partecipation in N.A. events • Regularly check N.A. web page • Annually partecipationin in EAIE conferences

  15. Good practice: Erasmus Placement • Placement Data Base • Double challenge of our Consortium was : creating a larger data base of enterprises , • Coordinating a national Consortium not only a local one • One-to-one as well as group meetings with the trainees • Personal Page of the student • Help the students with academic recognition: DS or ECTS • Exchange experiences between students and ex-trainees • Dissemination

  16. Leonardo and Placement: similarities • One single office • Similar procedures • Gaining experience from the past

  17. PLACEMENT Focus on Academic Recognition: Added value in Placement Continuity : (Erasmus mobility for studies, Placement, ) LEONARDO DA VINCI Focus on PLM: looking at professional experience Easier to be hired in the company after the Leonardo work experience Leonardo vs. Placement: differencies

  18. Critical aspects • Partner search: time consuming and complex • Difficult to find placement for students • Even more difficult to find three-month placements • Difficult to obtain academic recognition (no standards)

  19. Suggestions – 1 - Companies • A good research of partnership is vital to get the best results. • We check on every aspect of the training before the student’s departure. • We evaluate carefully the company’s profile before forwarding their offers to our students, and if the company does not comply with the training agreement they signed, we take it off our partnership. • We do our best to be regularly in touch with the companies, monitor their tutoring as well as the students’ progress. • Quality is the key word in a placement, and it always has to be respected.

  20. Suggestions – 2 - Trainees • One-to-one meetings with the trainees before departure • Group meetings with all the trainees • Constant Monitoring • Focus on linguistic as well as inter-cultural skills and knowledge • Promoting the project in Faculties, Erasmus offices and Coordinators, University website (always up-to-date)

  21. Thanks for your attention Contacts: Marina Tesauro International Relations Office University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Student.placement@uniroma2.it

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