ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS IN SUPPORTING EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ROMANIA
ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS IN SUPPORTING EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: This study is about the effects of short exchange projects on students from higher education.The authors observe a low willingness among students from The Netherlands and Romania to spend longer term exchange periods in each other’s country. Just 0.3% of Dutch ERASMUS+ scholarship recipients went to Romania in 2017, and vice versa 1.8%. Given the population sizes and higher education enrollment rates, the expected average would have been around 3% for both countries. Even though Romania’s attractiveness of higher education is slowly increasing, the authors decided to try to help students with broadening their horizon by offering an educational intervention that consists of a short exchange project that consists of an actual business assignment for a client from either business or government. The results of the corresponding pre- and post-test indicates that students are probably a bit overly optimistic about their intercultural skills at the start, but at the end especially enjoy a lot the multidisciplinary approach of the exchange project.

• Details
• Contents