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
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?
Leonardo da Vinci mobility - 2
Through our projects, during the last few
years, a total number of about 450
participants found a 24 week placement in
European enterprises.
Our Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects
for graduates
Last project approved: JOBS-4GRADUATES, 2010, 100 participants
UNIGRADUATE 3, 2008, 93 participants
UNIGRADUATE 2, 2007, 70 participants
UNIGRADUATE, 2006, 83 participants
Our Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects
for students
UNIROMATRAINING 5, 2007, 52
participants
UNIROMATRAINING 4, 2006, 73
participants
UNIROMATRAINING 3, 2005, 77
participants
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.
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.
Leonardo da Vinci on the way to LLPErasmus 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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 extrainees
 Dissemination
Leonardo and Placement: similarities
One single office
Similar procedures
Gaining experience from the past
Leonardo vs. Placement: differencies
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
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)
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.
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)
Thanks for your attention
Contacts:
Marina Tesauro
International Relations Office
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
[email protected]