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The ACUP and the Government of Catalonia promote catalan public universities at the APAIE, the largest education fair in Asia
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The Association of Catalan Public Universities (ACUP) and the Catalan Government participate in the annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE), one of the world's most important education fairs and the major one in Asia, which is held in Beijing from 23 to 26 March 2016. The Catalan delegation will include representatives of the ACUP, the Government of Catalonia, UB, UAB, UPC, UPF, URV, UdG, UdL and UVIC universities.
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Selection committee of EMINENCE II programme at Poznan
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EMINENCE II is a partnership of 20 universities from the European Union (5 HEIs from Poland, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Sweden ) and Eastern neighbouring regions (8 HEIs from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, and 7 HEIs from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). The project will offer 155 scholarships for students (undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral) and for staff (academic and administrative) to be awarded for both sides candidates.
The URV has been a member of the Selection Committee for the Erasmus Mundus scholarships 2015-2016 that has been held in Adam Mickievizc University in Poznan on the 15th to 17th of February.
There are 12 selected students who will spend the full academic year with us, they are undergradute and master students. And 2 academics and 1 phd from the URV will take part of this mobility programme during the next academic year.
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Employability at the LEO-Net Seminar 2015
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The annual LEO-NET seminar in Barcelona was held on 16th and 17th of April, 2015. It was the 15th anniversary of LEO-Net. The seminar was attended by more than 30 experts in mobility for traineeships from 15 countries around Europe, such as Portugal, Turkey, The United Kingdom, Greece, Finland, Malta, and Belgium. The International Center of the URV took part in the seminar as a member of this network. This year LEO-Net's seminar dealt with sustainable employability and ways forward in the implementation of Erasmus+. LEO-Net, that stands for Levering Education into Organizations, is a network for Academic mobilities throughout Europe and beyond.
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Iona College visits URV in a mutual collaboration
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On 5 March the URV’s I-Center was visited by Mr Jeff Tuner, who directs programmes in Spain for New York State’s Iona College. The purpose of his visit was to get to know our university and discuss the possibility of mutual collaboration between both institutions in the form of a Study Abroad programme whereby students from Iona College would attend classes taught in English at the URV.
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The URV provides training for internationalisation staff from European universities
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The International Staff Training Week 2015 was held from 23 to 27 March at the URV’s Campus Catalunya and brought together European experts in internationalization. The aim was to provide training which attendees could then apply at their own institutions.
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The International Week brought together 13 professionals working at European universities in the Santander Group European Universities' Network. All work in the international offices of their respective universities in Spain, Poland, Germany, Romania, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Britain and the USA.
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From 22 to 26 February the members of the International Network of Universities (INU) met at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University at Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The URV has been a member of the INU since 2010. It is a global network of twelve universities who actively collaborate to create opportunities for their students, staff and faculty, of which the Summer Seminars in Hiroshima are a fine example.
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New staff member from Finland joins the I-Center
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Since early March the International Center has been ably assisted by Maija Tauriala, an international student from the University of Tampere (Finland), who is currently at the URV as part of the Erasmus+ traineeship international mobility programme.
Maija has comprehensive skills in management, marketing and communication, that is, areas that are particularly important to the International Centre. In addition to her native Finnish, she also speaks fluent English, German and Spanish.
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Forthcoming application period for exchange students
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Exchange students wishing to study at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili during the 2015-16 academic year will be able to apply from 15 April 2015 until 15 June 2015.
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