The purpose of the call is to provide training abroad, educational visits at the workplace, job shadowing at partner higher education institutions or other relevant organisations that will:

• encourage the mobility of non-teaching staff or staff in salary groups J and H and higher education assistants (assistant professors, assistant professors with a master's degree, assistant professors with a doctorate),
• encourage mobility activities aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of student mobility at UM under the Erasmus+ programme, such as contacting organisations that could host UM students for professional practical training abroad, visiting partner institutions with which UM faculties have active student exchanges, participating in organised Erasmus Staff Training Weeks at higher education institutions abroad, contacting higher education institutions abroad that participate in the Erasmus+ programme and could become Erasmus+ partner institutions of UM, etc.
• to enable staff to exchange expertise, to create links between higher education institutions and enterprises, to enable staff to acquire knowledge or specific practical skills from experience and good practice abroad as well as practical skills relevant to their current work and their professional development, to encourage staff to become mobile and to help them prepare for a period of mobility.

The objectives of mobility are as follows:

• A broader understanding of education practices, policies and systems across countries;
• better competences linked to professional profiles;
• innovations to bring about changes in terms of modernisation and international cooperation in educational organisations;
• a better understanding of the interrelationship between formal and non-formal
  understanding of the links between formal and informal education or vocational training and the labour market;
• improved quality of their work and activities for the benefit of students
  better understanding of and response to social, linguistic and cultural diversity;
• more opportunities to meet the needs of disadvantaged people;
• enhanced support and promotion of mobility for students;
• more opportunities for professional and career development;
• improved foreign language skills;
• increased motivation and satisfaction in daily work.

More detailed information, instructions and all forms to be filled in are available on the University of Maribor website.

For more information on staff mobility, please contact Ms Petra Gorjanc, Erasmus Coordinator at the FOV (erasmus.fov@um.si).