International Oce SUPSI Activity Report
Presentation of activities
The service is responsible for managing and administering everything that revolves around the themes of internationalisation with particular attention to the SEMP SwissEuropean Mobility Programme.
The activities carried out by the ser and SUPSI in general, as it actively vice are numerous, including sup participates in national and inter port for students, teachers and sta national networks. who want to stay abroad, as well as Internationalisation includes all a consultancy service, reception and measures that contribute to making the organisation of accommodation a higher education institution com possibilities for students, teachers petitive in teaching, research and and sta who come to at SUPSI. services within an international and The International Oce is also a intercultural context. reference point for the departments
Social Network Report Over the years, SUPSI's International Oce has focused In the future the goal is to continue with this more and more on promoting mobility through social media method by proposing more interactive activities channels. Those used mainly are Instagram and Facebook. and increasing social media use. Additionally, it should be remembered that with the option of temporary "stories" and live videos, the Number of posts: page becomes more interesting and attractive, Minimum number of views per post: thereby entertaining the public more. Maximum number of views per post: Average number of views:
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The number of incoming and outgoing mobility students is constantly increasing. Every year more and more students decide to spend a semester of study or internship abroad enriching their cultural and professional background. Their experiences can be found on the SUPSI International Oce website at the following link: www.supsi.ch/international_en/testimonials. Activity Report International O ce SUPSI
Activities with Incoming Students
To entertain and involve the various The overall result was excellent. Every incoming students during the se organised event was always well at mester of mobility, the Internation tended. The event that proved the al Oce organises various cultural, most popular was the Cheese Night sports and entertainment activities for the students, the fondue dinner. every year. Thanks to the "OM" budget The visit to the Sagra del Borgo in allocated by the national mobility Mendrisio and to Lugano PasSteggia agency Movetia, it was possible to in September both proved extremely prepare about ten events and activi popular. ties aimed at incoming students over In we welcomed students the semesters. from dierent countries in addi Thanks to the collaboration with the tion to German and Frenchspeaking international association ESN Lugano Switzerland. Erasmus Student Network and to the The future goal is to continue to of active participation of the SUPSI Bud fer dierent cultural, sports and en dy System, the International Oce tertainment activities typical of the has been able to make these moments area to international students as even more special and engaging. done during the last years.
Activities with Outgoing students
The SUPSI International Oce or The overall result of the two meet Our main objective in the realisa ganises two meetings every semester ings was very positive. Usually student tion of these events is to make them for outgoing students who leave for presence during the first meeting is as useful as possible and at the same a semester of mobility or internships almost total. Whereas in the second time not too boring. In order to make abroad or in Switzerland at universi meeting about half participate. This is the meetings more interesting we are ties or partner institutions. One meet due to the fact that in the first meeting thinking of organising, with the col ing is held before departure and the there is a lot of practical and bureau laboration of the mobility represent second after the experience. cratic information that the student atives, moments of entertainment re must know in addition to delivering lated to the mobility experience. Leaving one's home the various agreements in original. In the second meeting the presence is and one's routine highly desirable, but not compulsory generates in all of us so some students do not participate. In the future the International Oce expectations and fears plans to make the final meeting man that are addressed datory as part of the mobility experi in our meetings. ence.
Predeparture meeting: The first part focuses on bureaucratic issues while the second part focuses on preparation and raising awareness of the stay, where the concerns and expectations of the students are dis cussed.
Postdeparture meeting: During the second meeting, after the return of the students, a moment of sharing takes place in which the pos itive and negative aspects of mobility are addressed. Sharing the positive and negative points faced during mobility. Discuss bureaucratic issues in both SUPSI and host universities. International O ce SUPSI Activity Report
Student Mobility Report
This year there has been a decrease in both Incoming and Outgoing student mobility compared to , but mainly due to two factors: • In students attended the Group for International Design Education GIDE workshop in Germany, while this year only one students attended the GIDE workshop in Scotland. • For incoming mobility, this year we did not host the International Master of Interior Architectural Design IMIAD workshop, which last year attracted foreign students. It is a rotationbased workshop hosted by the consortium's partner sites in India, Germany and Turkey. Regarding the SwissEuropean Mobility Programme SEMP mobility, we had a slight decrease in outgoing students , but an increase in incoming students +. Swiss mobility is still low, but this year we had a slight increase in both inbound + and outbound + . Nationally, including all the Swiss higher education institutions, student went abroad for a SEMP mobility per studies and per internships, while per studies and per internships are incoming mobility.
Outgoing Student Mobility Incoming Student Mobility
In mobility programs for study, internships and participation in foreign students decided to spend a mobility period at SUPSI in . workshops outside Ticino and abroad were carried out. Many students come from Italian universities out of . The DACD As many as mobility programs were carried out in the context of is the department that welcomes the majority of foreign students, also the SEMP programme: the most popular destinations were Italy and thanks to the participation in the IMIAD, which every year welcomes Spain. Participation in various workshops in China, Ethiopia and the students. The Bachelor in Architecture also hosts the SinoSwiss work China module oered by the MSE was also very high, with a total of shop with about ten students from China every year. While for semester students involved. Finally, there are many internships fulfilled out mobility, it is the three degree courses in the healthcare area that wel side the SEMP programme and we had some Swiss mobility. The most come the majority of students from abroad. chosen types of mobility programs are those of international mobili Every year we welcome many students as part of an international mo ty for internship purposes, such as the Bachelor of Science in Conser bility scheme, therefore not funded by the SEMP programme. These are vation, which held traineeship for at least weeks, and international PhD students who come to do the thesis work with us or freemovers, workshops/Study Trips, such as the MSE China Module Study Trip of mainly at the DACD, DTI and DEASS healthcare area, not forgetting the the Department of innovative technologies DTI and the workshops of Indian students who follow the IMIAD course every year. the Department for environment construction and design DACD such SEMP mobility is also always an important part of our incoming stu as Group for International Design Education GIDE, workshop Africa, dents, with students coming for a study or internship mobility, of workshop SinoSwiss. which from nearby Italy, from Germany and from Spain. As a semester mobility instead, the SEMP study mode has predominated This year the international mobility workshops are composed only of mobility programs, led by DACD students in Visual Communication Chinese students who came to follow the SinoSwiss workshop of Ar and Interior Design. The students of the degree courses in Nursing, Oc chitecture. cupation Therapy and Physiotherapy are the most mobile, also because The incoming students for cooperation and development mentioned are their training includes internships and many of them choose to take the students who every year have the opportunity to study at the Mas advantage of the opportunity to do these abroad. On the other hand, ter of Science in Engineering thanks to the Reteca Foundation, which students in Conservation, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Interior welcomes students from South America. Design and the Master in Engineering move thanks to the workshops or study trips oered by the respective degree courses. The majority of our students choose neighbouring Italy as a country to spend a period of mobility mobilities, selected mainly by students in Incoming student mobility health area, followed by Spain mobilities. International mobility for study purposes SEMP Traineeship Outgoing student mobility SEMP Study International Workshop / study trip International mobility for internship purposes Cooperation and development International workshop / study trip International mobility for internship purposes SEMP Study Swiss mobility Study SEMP Traineeship Swiss mobility Traineeship Swiss mobility Traineeship Cooperation and development traineeship International mobility for study purposes Swiss mobility Study Activity Report International O ce SUPSI MOVETIA DAYS From to November the annual meeting on higher education organised by the national agency Movetia, in collaboration with the International Oce of SUPSI, took place at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.
The twoday event dedicated to student possible future scenarios. Reflection on a source of pride for SUPSI to be able to mobility organised by Movetia, the na planning and development of financing host the annual Movetia meeting at our tional agency for the promotion of mo instruments for Swiss universities was at headquarters at the Conservatorio della bility and national and international the centre of the various proposed work Svizzera italiana and to highlight the in cooperation in all areas of education, in shops. stitute and the Ticino region. collaboration with SUPSI, was a success. The days were highly appreciated thanks to the themes oered and by the numer Which international activities enrich the ous speakers who took turns over the two education system and which contribute days of Movetia. There is a great deal of to its improvement? How can innovative information and data that can give us technologies facilitate collaboration and interesting insights into the future chal how does digitalisation influence future lenges that mobility in general will face student and sta mobility programmes in the coming years. and institutional cooperation? Are we It's very important and interesting to be moving towards a greener and more vir able to discuss the two currently popu tual mobility? What are the opportunities lar mobility trends, which with dierent and diculties for the internationalisa approaches aim at the same objectives tion of higher education? of cultural exchange and interconnect At the Conservatorio della Svizzera italia ing academic environments. On the one na, international speakers and national hand virtual mobility nods at the current stakeholders attempted to answer these wave of climate change awareness that questions and addressed topical issues the world is facing and on the other hand related to national, European and global the importance and natural need for hu mobility and cooperation in education. man beings to be able to move and face an During the second day, the discussion increasingly digital world. focused on current programmes and In addition, and no less important, it was Concert Hall Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana
The main objective of the pres a playful way if a student has the Long Night of Careers ence of the International Of right characteristics to take part fice has been to promote and in a mobility program and where The LNOC is an event organised for university present more opportunities for they could improve. At the end of exchange and mobility oered the game, each participating stu students by Swiss universities in collaboration during the students' educational dent is given a score with the final with local companies. programme. There was also the stamp on the overall card. Once possibility of answering questions the short workshop was finished, and concerns from the student the students were given the op body. portunity to take some printed As in the previous year, an adhoc photos with an Instax Mini to space has been dedicated to the keep as a souvenir. International O ce to set up the At the stand someone was always "checkin point". available to students for practical/ It has been decided to reintroduce administrative questions. the game of snakes and ladders There was a large attendance at linked to mobility, conceived by the stand with a lot of interest the International O ce. In from students. During and a half there was a lot of positive feed hours students participated in back from students, so it was the game. In addition to those, decided that for the edi there were students who came tion it could also be entertaining. to the stand to find out about the The game consists in answering various exchange opportunities. questions about some possible episodes that a mobile student may face. Soft skills are associated Entrance Long Night of Careers at the Palazzo dei Congressi with the answer given. The ob of the city of Lugano jective of the game is to check in International O ce SUPSI Activity Report
This year the annual EAIE European Association for International Education EAIE conference was held from to September in Helsinki, Finland.
The objectives set by the SUPSI International Oce team were to Helsinki consolidate relations with existing partners and, at the instruction of the departments, to contact them for future collaboration with European institutions. The activities were divided into individual meetings focused on topics of mutual interest, presence at the Swissuniversities stand for the promotion of the Swiss education system and the SUPSI.
During the conference the team SUPSI met In Helsinki there was also an opportunity to several colleagues from European universi meet the Swiss partners of the Movetia fund ties; some of them already SUPSI partners ed research project "Internationalisation of while others are potential ones: curricula in Switzerland" to discuss the topic ◆ OAMK University of Applied Sciences, and agree on how to proceed accordingly. Finland; The following participated for SUPSI: Nadia ◆ Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Bregoli, Pamela Valeggia, Annick Catella e Netherlands Enrica Massardi. ◆ University of Turin, Italy ◆ Université BordeauxMontaigne, France ◆ FH Krems, Austria ◆ FH Campus Wien, Austria SUPSI team at EAIE with a partner ◆ Polytechnic of Milan, Italy ◆ Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
th The aim of the symposium was to show SinoSwiss how SUPSI works, through real exam ples of initiatives activated in particular in Mendrisio, a region of Ticino, where Symposium of UAS the new campus will be inaugurated in September In particular, stakehold er relations have been further developed, The event was organised and promoted in partnership bringing examples of actual projects in favour of the local community. by the Chinese Embassy in Switzerland, the China Education The event was attended by a delegation Association for International Exchange CEAIE in Beijing of about ¤ Chinese members including Embassy ocials, rectors, managers of and SUPSI. universities of applied science and rep resentatives of Chinese institutions and the representative International Rela tions Division of SERI State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. The community of professors, lecturers, researchers, managers and international relations ocers, students and institu tional and corporate partners of SUPSI, most involved in the issues and projects presented also attended the event. Insti tutional guests, such as the mayor of the Municipality of Mendrisio, the head of Mendrisiotto Tourism, a representative from the Municipality of Lugano, the head of Switzerland Global Enterprise and SUPSI colleagues interacting with Participants of the th SinoSwiss Symposium of UAS China were also guests at the symposium. Activity Report International O ce SUPSI
Sta Mobility Report
In order to monitor mobility, the mobility data carried out under the SEMP programme were used and mobility coordinators have been asked to indicate the mobility carried out outside this programme. There is currently no system that includes all mobility, so it is sometimes dicult to monitor. It is also assumed that incoming international mobility of visiting professors, researchers and internees within the framework of cooperation is higher than is currently possible. In there were outgoing mobility placements, so this year, , with , there has been an increase. On the other hand, there was a decrease in incoming mobility placements from to , due to the fact that last year we organised Sta Days which welcomed colleagues from dierent European universities. Nationally, including all the Swiss higher education institutions, there were outgoing employee mobility placements both for training and teaching and incoming, carried out under the SEMP programme.
Outgoing sta mobility Incoming sta mobility
In , there were SUPSI sta mobility placements. Most choose There were collaborators from other universities or organisations to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the SEMP mobility who came to SUPSI to teach or train. The DACD is the department that programme, especially for education reasons a total of . Mobility for hosted the majority of sta mobility placements in . Thanks to the teaching purposes is also appreciated, and as many as teachers chose SinoSwiss Architecture workshop, Chinese teachers were our guests this possibility. While members of sta went abroad to participate in for a week. a workshop with their students SinoSwiss workshop, workshop Africa On the other hand, there was a decrease in incoming mobility place and MSE China Module. ments from to , due to the fact that last year the International Many mobility placements were carried out in neighbouring Italy, while O ce organized the Sta Days which welcomed colleagues from dif out of took place in dierent countries. ferent European universities. International mobility is due to the arrival of guest researchers: one at the Conservation and Restoration degree course, and the other at the Institute for Applied Sustainability to the Built Environment ISAAC. The DACD also welcomed teachers from China for the SinoSwiss work shop. As for outgoing mobility, % of SUPSI guests came from Italy. This is undoubtedly because the same language is shared, which facilitates exchanges and collaboration.
Outgoing sta mobility Incoming sta mobility
SEMP mobility for training SEMP mobility for teaching DACD DACD DEASS Health area DEASS Sanità DFA DFA DIR SUM DTI SUM International mobility DACD SEMP mobility for teaching DACD SEMP mobility for training DEASS Business administration DACD DEASS Health area DFA SUM International workshop / study trip International workshop / study trip DACD DACD DEASS Business administration International O ce SUPSI Activity Report agreements report
Introduction create new partnerships with univer a regular and punctual relationship During the International Oce, sities both within and outside Europe, with the departmental coordinators in collaboration with the departmen to present and promote SUPSI and the in order to help them in the selection tal coordinators, worked to develop departments involved in order to fur and drafting of collaboration agree new agreements and renew exist ther encourage collaboration in train ments. A feasibility, necessity and ing ones with partner universities, ing, research and innovation. Promote interest analysis is carried out in ad both within Europe and outside the incoming and outgoing mobility by vance in order to find the best agree EU. The choice of partner by SUPSI is oering coveted and renowned des ment to meet the expectations of all made according to the needs of the tinations and institutions in order to parties involved. individual departments as well as the increase SUPSI's reputation and pres Not all agreements are fully exploited flow of students and employees who tige in the international arena. over the years, so cases where there is actually benefit from active collabora no longer any reason to renew them tion agreements. The importance of Agreement situation need to be analysed. such agreements is precisely to estab The methods used to choose the part lish an active collaborative relation ners with whom to create or renew Participation in EAIE ship between the institutions, their collaboration agreements actively in The participation to the EAIE event in faculty and students on mobility both volve departmental coordinators who Helsinki has also allowed the Inter for study and internship. The mutu first and foremost have a complete national Oce and the departmental al satisfaction of the institutions and and profound vision of the needs and coordinators to establish and imple people involved in mobility programs desires of students and teachers, as ment contacts for future collabora are the basis for the maintenance and well as the needs to increase aware tions, some already concluded with creation of new partnerships in fur ness and prestige at internationally the signing of the agreement and ther areas of training and research. recognised universities. others still under development and The main objective is to maintain and The International Oce maintains refinement.
Collaboration agreements with SEMP partners SEMP agreements by country
Countries Italy Spain Germany Belgium France Portugal Austria Lithuania Sweden
Czech Republic ATD CSI DACD DEASS Economy DEASS Social Work DEASS Health DTI Turkey Finland There is also growing cooperation with Swiss institutions Greece for national mobility. Slovenia Poland Romania Hungary Malta Netherlands Further details on exchange data Grand total www.supsi.ch/go/datimobilita International O ce SUPSI Activity Report Portale collaboratori
Every year the International Oce is very and website active with regard to both external and internal publications. During the main focus was on the ClickIn, the employee portal and website.
For many years the SUPSI Interna tional Oce has published news or events related to internationality in With the introduction of the SUPSI SUPSI through its internal newsletter, employee portal, the internal commu ClickIn. nication system has changed comple International In the system was only active tely. ClickIn has been replaced by this until May as the employee portal took medium. In there were ¦ written Oce over. In total there have been ¥ pu articles on internationality. blications. Until now there has been Website great interest from the community of SUPSI employees and, through our news, they have had the opportunity Regarding the publications on the to follow international happenings di International Oce website, the rectly within our institute. page is divided into News and Events. Among the topics covered were inter Usually the English version of the national cooperation, mobility, stu website tends to replicate only the dytrip, student workshops, Interreg contents of news or events considered projects, the annual Movetia event very important and relevant for the Clickin nonItalianspeaking community. in Ticino, the International Pilot Pro gram, cooperation and development, www.supsi.ch/international international research, sustainability, innovation and the SinoSwiss sym posium.
From to February the International Compared to previous years there was a more Oce was present at the SUPSI interest and a higher turnout. Most of the Open Day for all departments. The aim participants had never heard of "ERASMUS" was to support the mobility coordinators and university mobility and so they were in presenting and answering questions curious. OpenDay regarding mobility possibilities. In there was also the first edition For each department, the International of the Openday by the new Bachelor in Oce prepared and printed Boarding passes Leisure Management. For the occasion, the focusing on the degree courses, indicating DEASS department decided to inaugurate first of all the possibilities of stay, length of the event at the LAC in Lugano, hosting stay and few possibile destinations. In addition not only interested students but also many to this we took along some brochures related important personalities from the world of to internationality and flyers of international entertainment, culture and sport, as well as student associations. We provided an iPad inviting successful testimonials in the field of and headphones to show students the video Leisure. testimonials made in by outgoing students.