The University of Lausanne is pleased to announce 4 days of staff training from 27 to 30 June 2017 Around the theme: EMPOWER STUDENTS AND STAFF. Free of charge for participants from a European institution Programme and target audience From 27 to 30 June 2017 and intended for administrative staff of international relations offices (on central or departmental level) working in connection with others locally and internationally. The programme aims to provide the participants with the following: * The opportunity to discover the University of Lausanne's campus and infrastructures, while exchanging good practices to facilitate mobility and developing soft and communication skills that are useful to our work * One of the sessions is dedicated to meeting a representative of the Swiss National Agency who will present the options that exist to keep collaborating with Swiss institutions since Switzerland is ‘Partner Country’ in Erasmus+ * A visit to the Foundation Jean Monnet for Europe will allow discussions on the opportunities and challenges of Europe * Participants will have an insight on Lausanne as the Olympic Capital * We left the doors open to individual visits to departments on demand The preliminary programme is available here. Modalities The number of participants is limited to 20 with a maximum of 2 people per institution. The selection will be made according to three criteria: 1. Motivation and reasons for taking part in this training 2. Field of work 3. Occupation with a partner institution of UNIL The working language is English. Free of charge for European participants Financed by the Swiss-European Mobility Programme (SEMP) and by our university (not by Erasmus+), no fees are charged for participants working at a European institution (Erasmus + Program Country). We will cover: * lunches (from Tuesday to Friday) * 2 dinners (on Tuesday and Thursday) * 4 hotel nights (check in: on Monday or Tuesday - check out: on Friday or Saturday). Rooms have been pre-booked at the Hotel Aulac at the very lake side (7 min metro connection to the center). * Travel costs according to the Erasmus + distance calculator between the home institution and UNIL (100-499 km = CHF200 / 500-1999 km = CHF300 / 2000-2999 km = CHF400 / >3000 km = CHF600) Participants working at non-European institutions are required to take in charge their travel and hotel costs. Registration Open from now on until Sunday, 30 April 2017. Click here to access the online REGISTRATION FORM. Confirmations will be sent on 5 May 2017. Contact Please do not hesitate to contact Sylvie Kohli / + 41 21 692 20 24 / erasmus@unil.ch We hope to see you soon and look forward to welcoming you! The International Relations Team of UNIL Feel free to circulate this announcement to whoever would be interested. °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Sylvie Kohli Coordinatrice Relations internationales / Erasmus Université de Lausanne (UNIL) Bureau des Relations internationales Château de Dorigny 1015 Lausanne Switzerland Tél: +41 21 692 20 24 Fax: +41 21 692 20 05 For international students and partners: www.unil.ch/international Pour la communauté UNIL: www.unil.ch/echanges