nº1, January 2015
Newsletter
Compostela Group of Universities
for students
Willing to live the
STELLA Junior
experience for yourself?
Step 1.- Check on www.
gcompostela.org>activities>STELLA
Junior if your University is endorsed.
Step 2.- If so, explore the different
offers available on the STELLA Junior
database.
Step 3.- Apply for your chosen offer
just by filling in the application form
available on the website and sending it
jointly with the documentation required by
the offer to your institution’s coordinator
(the list of coordinators is also available on
this website).
Getting funding
The CGU will support with up to 500 euro the
travel costs of a number of participants. The
criteria applied in the assignation will be “firstcome,
first-served” although preference will be
given to placements that entail intercontinental
mobility. Besides, students can apply for
funding opportunities such as Leonardo,
Erasmus +, etc. through their home Universities.
STELLA Junior is an international training
programme for students organised by the
Compostela Group of Universities (CGU).
The association facilitates a permanent
updated database (on its website) where
the students of the enrolled member universities
can find and apply for tailored training
placement offers at other CGU univer-
sities/institutions.
The Compostela Group supports a number
of students each year with up to 500
euro to cover their travel costs.
At the moment, there are 46 offers of
training placements at CGU institutions published
on the STELLA Junior database. The
universities enrolled are from: Brazil, Czech
Republic, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico,
Poland, Portugal and Spain.
International training through
STELLA Junior Programme
Gabriela de la Rosa, a student from Universidad Anáhuac Xalapa
(Mexico), enjoyed a training stay at the CGU’s Secretariat (Spain).
María Novás, from Universitat Jaume I (Spain), was trained at the
Gender Equality Office of the University of A Coruña (Spain).
A student from the University of Jaén (Spain), Rocío Chueco, went
to UNINETTUNO (Italy) through the STELLA Junior Programme.
How to participate...
Step 1.- Check on www.
gcompostela.org>activities>Video Contest
if your University is endorsed.
Step 2.- Some universities organise
an internal competition before submitting
their candidates to the CGU’s Contest,
others do not. Please, contact your
institution’s coordinator (details available
on the website) to show your interest in
participating as well as to get information
on the specific conditions at your institution.
Step 3.- Prepare your video. On the
CGU’s website you can find the Guidelines
of the Contest, including the topic options.
Our technical requirements are simple:
use any kind of device, don’t make a
video longer than 1 minute 30 seconds,
music and images should have been
granted by their author, if the video is not
in English it should include subtitles in
correct English, and the logo of the CGU
and of the student’s University should be
present in the whole video.
Step 4.- Submit your video to your
coordinator and wait for the results!
The winning video of the last edition of the
CGU’s International Video Contest for Students
was “Year Abroad: Make The Most of
It”, which was submitted by a team of students
from the University of Roehampton: Morgane
Allard-Le Berre, Albert Bellés Chorva,
Elena Churakova, Andrea Estrada and
Judit Hideg (in the pictures above,
during the filming process).
In accordance with the agreement the Compostela
Group signed with Euronews, one of
the students will be offered a traineeship at
the news channel very soon. Besides, the team
was invited to the CGU’s XXth
General Assembly,
which took place at the Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznan (Poland) on 25-27 September
2014 and their video is being promoted
through the CGU communication tools.
The CGU’s International Video
Contest for Students: a source of
opportunities
Projects with European funding that you may
be interested in
PROJECT FULL NAME TYPE & NUMBER AIMS WEBSITE
EUREKA Enhancement of University
Research and Education in
Knowledge Areas for Sustainable
Development
Erasmus Mundus
545867-EM-1-2013-
1-DE-ERA MUN-
DUS-EMA21
Fostering structured cooperation between European and Latin
American Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) through the promotion
of mobility at all levels of studies as well as for research, administrative
and academic staff.
http://www.eure-
ka-sd-project.eu/
HUMERIA HUManities, Education,
Research, International Relations
and Arts between EU
and ENPI HEIs
Erasmus Mundus
545743-EM-1-2013-
1-EE-ERA MUN-
DUS-EMA21
Promotion of collaboration between EU and ENPI HEIs in the fields
of Humanities, Education, Research, International Relations, Arts
and Design.
http://humeria.eu/
EUPHRA-
TES
EU Promotion of Health
through Research, Applied
Technology, Education and
Science in India
Erasmus Mundus
545638-EM-1-2013-
1-ES-ERA MUN-
DUS-EMA21
Stimulation of entrepreneurial culture and selfemployment among
students through exchanges between EU and Indian universities.
http://www.usc.es/
euphrates/project.htm
EXPERTS -
SUSTAIN
Exchange by Promoting
Quality Education, Research
and Training in South and
South-East Asia (SSEA)
Erasmus Mundus
552079-EM-1-2014-
1-DE-ERA MUN-
DUS-EMA21
Continuation of cooperation in EU-SSEA partnership and improving
good practices implemented in previous EXPERTS projects. It
aims at increasing the employability of university graduates through
structured mobility and internships.
http://www.experts-
asia.eu/eramun.asp
UMEI Universities in the Maghreb:
Inclusive Education
TEMPUS
516982-TEMPUS-1-
2001-1-BE-TEMPUS-
JPGR
Widening the access to Higher Education, focusing on students with
difficult economic backgrounds, with disabilities and from rural
areas.
http://goo.gl/36o-
8za
CERES Clean Energy and Research
in Environmental Studies
TEMPUS
517401-TEMPUS-1-
2011-1-ES-TEMPUS-
JPCR
Responding to the current demands of the labour and energy
sectors for competent and well trained engineers in the fields of
energy and environment (establishing master programmes, a centre
of excellence for consultants, tailored training programmes for
engineers, etc.).
http://ceres.artolo-
gystudio.com/
Explore their websites and find out when and how to apply for mobility and other opportunities.
Projects with European funding that you may
be interested in
PROJECT FULL NAME TYPE & NUMBER AIMS WEBSITE
BABEL Building Academic Bonds
with Europe and Latin
America
Erasmus Mundus
372326-1-2012-1-PTERA
MUNDUS-EMA-21
Implementation of a minimum of 100 mobility flows of Latin American
students (undergraduate, master and doctorate level), researchers
and staff members willing to undertake a mobility period
or full degree (depending on the type of mobility) in one of the
European partner institutions.
http://babel.up.pt/
ANGLE Academic Networking, a
Gate for Learning Expe-
riences
Erasmus Mundus
Action 2 – Strand 1
(EMA2 – STRAND 1
Mobility for students and staff from ACP countries to prestigious
HEIs in Europe.
http://angle.up.pt/
PEACE Program for Excellence
Academy Cooperation
Exchange
Erasmus Mundus
Action 2
Development of further collaboration among EU and Middle East
Institutions for sending and hosting mobility of talented students
and staff.
http://www.usc.es/
peace/
PEACE II Program for Excellence
Academy Cooperation
Exchange II
Erasmus Mundus
545638-EM-1-2013-
1-ES-ERA MUN-
DUS-EMA21
Promoting mobility between Latin America and Europe students at
bachelor (exchange), master (exchange/degree), PhD (exchange/
degree), post-doctorate (exchange), administrative and academic
staff (exchange) levels.
http://www.usc.es/
peace2/
EMAIL II EMAIL II Erasmus Mundus Action
2
Widening the access to Higher Education, focusing on students with
difficult economic backgrounds, with disabilities and from rural
areas.
https://www.em2il.
muni.cz/
EMAIL III EMAIL III Erasmus Mundus
Action 2 - Lot 2
545716-EM-1-2013-
1-CZ-ERA MUN-
DUS-EMA21
Widening the access to Higher Education, focusing on students with
difficult economic backgrounds, with disabilities and from rural
areas.
https://www.em2il.
muni.cz/
Get constantly updated information on our activities
and opportunities through our social media!
for students
and on the CGU’s website: www.gcompostela.org
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