EXTENDED ERASMUS UNIVERSITY CHARTER (STANDARD CHARTER AND STUDENT PLACEMENTS) Application form

EXTENDED ERASMUS UNIVERSITY CHARTER (STANDARD CHARTER AND STUDENT PLACEMENTS) Application form Final date for submission: 30/11/2007 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Type of Erasmus University Charter applied for Standard Extended (Student placements only) Extended (Standard Charter and tudent placements) Applicant's previous EUC number (if applicable) 210310IC120021PTERASMUSEUC1 Correspondence language: FR Erasmus Policy Statement original language: PO If the original language is not English, French or German, the Erasmus Policy Statement should also be provided in one of those three languages Erasmus Policy Statement translation language: EN 1 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

A Institutional profile A.1. Identification of the applicant institution Full legal name of the institution in the national language Translation of this name in English Erasmus ID code of the institution (if available) Internet address IADEINSTITUTO DE ARTES VISUAIS, DESIGN E MARKETING IADEINSTITUTE OF VISUAL ARTS, DESIGN AND MARKETING P LISBOA 46 http://www.iade.pt A.2. Identification of the legal representative First name and surname of the legal representative of the institution Title (optional) (e.g. Prof., Dr, etc.) Department/Unit Official function within the institution ANTÓNIO ROQUETTE FERRO DIRECTION BOARD GENERAL DIRECTOR Gender Male Phone (including country and area codes) + 351/2173939600 Fax (including country and area codes) + 351/ 21/3978561 Email address (only one address) Legal address of the institution Street/Nr. Post code & Town Country Code, Country aferro@iade.pt IADE:: AV. D. CARLOS I, Nº4 1200649 LISBOA PT, Portugal A.3. Erasmus coordinator First name and surname Title (optional) (e.g. Prof., Dr, etc.) Department/Unit Official function within the institution CECÍLIA EIRÓ Prof. Gender Female DRI INTERNATIONAL OFFICE HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL OFFICE Phone (including country and area codes) + 351/ 21/3939689 Fax (including country and area codes) + 351/ 21/3978561 Email address (only one address) Correspondence address Street/Nr. Post code & Town Country Code, Country ceiro@iade.pt, dri@iade.pt IADE:: AV. D. CARLOS I, Nº4 120649 LISBOA PT, Portugal 2 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

A.4. Statistical data on the applicant institution The data required relate solely to higher education. Foundation year of your institution 1969 Level of degrees awarded First cycle degrees Second cycle degrees Onetier degrees Third Cycle(without PhD) Doctoral degrees Yes Yes No No No Number of students enrolled in 2006/2007 on higher education courses Parttime 0 Fulltime 1603 Number of students graduated in 2006/2007 First Cycle Second Cycle Onetier degrees Third Cycle(without PhD) Doctoral degrees 321 47 Number of teaching staff (total) in 2006/2007 152 Number of teaching staff (fulltime equivalent) in 2006/2007 113 Number of administrative staff (fulltime equivalent) in 2006/2007 55 Number of these administrative staff members directly working in European/international relations in 2006/2007 (fulltime equivalent) 4 First year of participation in Erasmus Programme with funding from the European Community 2001 3 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

B Fundamental principles The institution agrees to comply with the following: YES 01 Mobility shall be carried out only within prior interinstitutional agreements (in the case of student placements: within prior agreements between the Institution and the organizations where the placements are carried out); 02 No university fees for tuition, registration, examinations, access to laboratory and library facilities are to be charged to incoming Erasmus students; 03 Full recognition shall be given to students for satisfactorily completed activities specified in the compulsory Learning Agreements and Placement Agreements. 04 Highest quality is ensured for the organisation of student and staff mobility; 05 Highest quality is ensured for the organisation of student placements; 06 Curriculum information is up to date, easily accessible and transparent; 07 An academic credit transfer system (ECTS or similar) gives transparency to the recognition procedures; 08 Equal academic treatment and services are ensured to home and Erasmus students; 09 The integration of visiting Erasmus students in the activities of the institution is supported; 10 Transcripts containing full, accurate and timely information are provided to incoming Erasmus students and their home institutions; 11 Erasmus teaching activities are facilitated and acknowledged; 12 The institution promotes and gives visibility to the activities supported by the Erasmus programme; 13 The Erasmus University Charter and the related Erasmus Policy Statement are publicized in the institution; 14 The institution complies with the objectives on nondiscrimination set out in the Lifelong Learning Programme. C Information on the organisation of mobility 1.a Recognition matters: Is your institution using ECTS (ECTS credits, learning agreement, transcript of records) to facilitate academic recognition of Erasmus study periods abroad? in all faculties/departments Yes in some faculties/departments No 1.b Recognition matters: Will your institution use ECTS as an internal credit accumulation system? in all faculties/departments Yes in some faculties/departments No 2. Diploma Supplement Does your institution award a Diploma Supplement to students? 3. Support for teaching staff mobility: What provision will be made to facilitate and support ERASMUS teaching staff mobility? a) Additional financial support from your institution Yes b) Acknowledgement of teaching activity abroad as an important part of academic career Yes c) Help with practical arrangements (travel, accomodation etc.) Yes d) Other (please specifiy) No 4. Support for disabled students/teachers: Will your institution provide special facilities for: a) Erasmus students/teachers with visual disability? No b) Erasmus students/teachers with hearing disability? No c) Erasmus students/teachers with other physical disability? No Yes 4 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

D original language working language PO EN Erasmus Policy Statement (EPS) In order to complete this section, please refer to the instructions given below. Please note that your EPS shall be given wide visibility in your institution and must be published on the web page of your institution. The EPS should set out the overall Erasmus cooperation strategy of your institution in relation with its mission statement, underlying its Erasmus cooperation plan as well as any other activities to be proposed in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP). a) Please describe clearly your institution's strategy, objectives and priorities for its Erasmus activities (mobility, multilateral projects and thematic networks, etc.) and any other actions in the context of the Lifelong Learning Programme. b) Please also provide information on the following points: What specific actions are planned to give visibility to Erasmus activities and what type of publicity will be given to the Erasmus University Charter and the EPS? What kind of arrangements, if any, does the Institution ensure to comply with nondiscrimination objectives (e.g. actions related to gender equality, integration of disabled students and staff, enhancement of social and economic cohesion and combating of xenophobia and racism)? Os objectivos estratégicos do IADE, relativamente à sua internacionalização de um modo geral e ao Programa Erasmus em particular, através da expansão da oferta de mobilidade, são fundamentalmente os seguintes: Preparar uma integração plena numa sociedade do conhecimento global; Colocar a Europa na vanguarda da economia baseada no conhecimento; Fortalecer o papel do Programa Educação e Formação 2010, no âmbito da Estratégia de Lisboa, tanto a nível europeu como nacional; Apoiar a criação de um espaço europeu de aprendizagem ao longo da vida; Contribuir para a promoção da criatividade, da competitividade e da empregabilidade, bem como para o reforço do desenvolvimento do espírito empresarial. Está previsto o desenvolvimento das seguintes acções: Promoção de oportunidades para aquisição de novas competências e atitudes através da oferta de estágios em empresas internacionais (LLP); Consolidação e ampliação de acordos bilaterais com Universidades estrangeiras (actualmente 29 acordos em 9 países), apoiados no crescimento das networks CUMULUS, BUSINET e ICOGRADA. Organização de um Programa Intensivo no âmbito do Programa Erasmus, na sequência da participação em anteriores IP s na Holanda, na Bélgica e na Áustria em 2005, 2006 e 2007; Desenvolvimento da iniciativa criada em 2007, a Semana Internacional no IADE, para estimular e promover a mobilidade de docentes; Consolidação e desenvolvimento de relações com as redes de comunidades de investigação no âmbito da Design Research Society, propondo consórcios doutorais. Promoção de conferências internacionais pelo Centro de Investigação UNIDCOM, acreditado e financiado pela FCT, na sequência das conferências internacionais que tem vindo a organizar, nas quais reuniu mais de 600 professores e investigadores de 40 países ( Senses&Sensibility em 2003, Pride&PreDesign em 2005 e Wonderground em 2006, Design&CC SOS! em 2007 ), Preparação de Unidades Curriculares em Inglês a serem implementadas nos Cursos de Nível 2; Ampliação da actividade do DIP Departamento de Integração Profissional, a nível internacional, promovendo o empreendedorismo e aumentando os índices de empregabilidade; A promoção e divulgação de todas as acções promovidas pelo IADE de um modo geral e a divulgação da EUC e do EPS, são feitas através de um website biligue, que dispõe ainda de outros canais importantes de informação tais como uma edição anual de um Guia de Actividades Académicas, uma newsletter e uma revista trimestral Idade da Imagem. Quality of academic mobility activities: What kind of specific measures are implemented in the institution to ensure highest quality in academic mobility activities? 5 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

Details should be provided in particular on: recognition and credit systems, the provision of information on curricula, information and counselling of outgoing students, tutoring and integration of incoming students, provision of student services (in particular accommodation), preparatory and refresher language courses, facilitation and acknowledgement of staff mobility. No IADE as actividades de mobilidade Erasmus são promovidas pelo Deparatamnto de Relações Internacionais. Os Estudantes candidatos à mobilidade Erasmus, são seleccionados por este Departamento com base nas notas previamente obtidas e numa entrevista que se destina a avaliar a sua autonomia e motivação para estudar no estrangeiro. Cada candidato aceite, procede depois à elaboração do seu Acordo de Estudos com o apoio de um docente da sua área de estudos e, após obtida a aprovação final deste pela Direcção académica do IADE, enviao para a Instituição estrangeira que o irá receber. A escolha das Unidades Curriculares a cursar no estrangeiro, é feita tendo em conta as semelhanças de conteúdos e os ECTS que o Estudante deverá obter no final do seu período de estudos. As notas finais obtidas pelos Estudantes nessas Unidades curriculares, são posteriormente traduzidas pelo DRI, com base numa Tabela de Conversão aprovada pela Direcção Académica do IADE. No Certificado final do Estudante constam as Unidades curriculares do Plano de Estudos da Universidade de origem (IADE) e correspondentes classificações. No Suplemento ao Diploma constam as Unidades curriculares feitas na Instituição estrangeira. Para além do apoio académico, o DRI faz o acompanhamento pessoal dos Estudantes do IADE através de e.mails e telefonemas quando necessário. No que concerne os Estudantes estrangeiros que vêm estudar para o IADE, o seu acompanhamento pessoal e académico é feito pela equipado DRI que os apoia e orienta para uma rápida integração no país e na Universidade. O IADE oferecelhes também um curso de português. Cerca de 60% do pessoal docente e não docente do IADE falam inglês, francês ou espanhol, 5% falam italiano, dois Professores falam alemão e um fala russo. O website do IADE tem uma versão em inglês onde os Professores e os Estudantes estrangeiros podem encontrar todas as informações sobre o IADE e os programas dos cursos que aí se ministram. Quality of student placement activities: What kind of specific measures are implemented to ensure high quality in student placements? Give details on how the workprogramme and the placement agreement are prepared and implemented. Please describe the practical arrangements agreed between the parties. Please specify also the monitoring and evaluation of the placement period as well as its recognition in the curriculum. A estratégia passa pela integração, em empresas de países europeus, de 6 estudantes finalistas do IADE, para realização de estágios profissionais de 12 semanas. Isto releva a importância de complementar a formação que os estudantes recebem, facilitando a sua empregabilidade e abordando as necessidades que as empresas têm de pessoal qualificado, fomentando ainda o uso de novas tecnologias. Os objectivos deste projecto são: favorecer a inserção no mercado de emprego de futuros lprofissionais em Design, Comunicação, Marketing e Publicidade; dar continuidade à formação teórica/académica recebida através de um estágio profissional em empresas europeias; aumentar os níveis de qualificação e conhecimento sobre o mundo empresarial europeu; melhorar/aumentar a capacidade de empreendedorismo, de autonomia e responsabilidade profissional nestes jovens; melhorar as suas competências profissionais, linguísticas e interculturais. As actividades que este projecto inclui são: preparação linguística, cultural e pedagógica; actividades socioculturais; estágio profissional em empresas locais nos países de destino; acompanhamento, tutoria e avaliação, certificação da aprendizagem linguística e do estágio profissional e validação de competências. As áreas de estudo principais deste projecto são Design, Comunicação, Publicidade e Marketing, incluindo todas as áreas abrangidas pelas Escolas de Design e de Marketing e Publicidade, implicando estudantes de várias especialidades. As empresas de acolhimento serão seleccionadas segundo o perfil profissional de cada participante, da sua experiência e das suas aptidões e competências. Haverá toda uma preparação prévia antes da partida dos participantes, onde se fará a selecção dos beneficiários de acordo com o perfil, os países, a motivação, onde conhecerão as empresas/instituições, o plano de estágio e após o regresso serão avaliados e certificados e ainda farseá a divulgação e disseminação dos resultados pela comunidade local e no IADE 6 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

D original language working language PO EN Erasmus Policy Statement (EPS) In order to complete this section, please refer to the instructions given below. Please note that your EPS shall be given wide visibility in your institution and must be published on the web page of your institution. The EPS should set out the overall Erasmus cooperation strategy of your institution in relation with its mission statement, underlying its Erasmus cooperation plan as well as any other activities to be proposed in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP). a) Please describe clearly your institution's strategy, objectives and priorities for its Erasmus activities (mobility, multilateral projects and thematic networks, etc.) and any other actions in the context of the Lifelong Learning Programme. b) Please also provide information on the following points: What specific actions are planned to give visibility to Erasmus activities and what type of publicity will be given to the Erasmus University Charter and the EPS? What kind of arrangements, if any, does the Institution ensure to comply with nondiscrimination objectives (e.g. actions related to gender equality, integration of disabled students and staff, enhancement of social and economic cohesion and combating of xenophobia and racism)? Regarding its internationalization, in general, and the Erasmus Program, in particular, IADE s strategic objectives, based on the expansion of its mobility offer, are as follows: To prepare full integration in a global society of knowledge; To place Europe at the vanguard of the knowledgebased economy; To strengthen the role of the Education and Training 2010 Program within the Lisbon Strategy, at European and national level; To support the establishment of a lifelong learning European space; To contribute to the promotion of creativity, competitiveness and employability, as well as reinforcing the development of an entrepreneurial spirit;. The development of the following actions are as follows: Promotion of opportunities to acquire new skills and attitudes through offers of apprenticeship in international companies (LLP); Consolidation and enlargement of bilateral agreements with foreign Universities (currently, 29 agreements in 9 countries), based on the growth of networks such as CUMULUS, BUSINET and ICOGRADA. Organization of an Intensive Program within the Erasmus Program, following the participation in former IPs held in The Netherlands, Belgium and Austria, in 2005, 2006 and 2007; Development of the IADE s International Week, an initiative started in 2007, to stimulate and promote teachers mobility; Consolidation and development of the relations with the research community networks within the Design Research Society, proposing doctoral consortia. Promotion of international conferences through the Research Centre UNIDCOM, accredited and financed by the FCT, following the international conferences it has held, gathering more than 600 teachers and researchers of 40 countries ( Senses&Sensibility in 2003, Pride&PreDesign in 2005, Wonderground in 2006, Design&CC SOS! in 2007 ), Setting up of English Curricular Units, to be implemented in 2nd Level Courses; Enlargement of the activities of DIP Department for Professional Integration at an international level, promoting entrepreneurship and augmenting the employability rates; The promotion and divulgence of all the actions sponsored by IADE and the divulgence of EUC and EPs actions are made through a bilingual website which features other important information channels such as the annual edition of an Academic Guide Quality of academic mobility activities: What kind of specific measures are implemented in the institution to ensure highest quality in academic mobility activities? Details should be provided in particular on: recognition and credit systems, the provision of information on curricula, 7 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

information and counselling of outgoing students, tutoring and integration of incoming students, provision of student services (in particular accommodation), preparatory and refresher language courses, facilitation and acknowledgement of staff mobility. The Erasmus mobility activities within IADE are run by the International Office: The students applying to the Erasmus mobility are selected by this Department, based on the grades they have previously obtained and on an interview, in order to establish their autonomy and willingness to study abroad. Each accepted candidate has to prepare his/her Learning Agreement, aided by a teacher of his/her study area, and after its approval by IADE s academic board, will send it to the host institution. The choice of the Curricular Units to be held abroad is subjected to the similarity of the content and the ECTS the student will obtain at the end of his/her study period. The final grades the students obtain in these curricular units are translated by the DRI, based on a Conversion Table approved by the Academic Board of IADE.. The student s final Certificate includes the Curricular Units of the course s program of the home university (IADE) and the corresponding grades. The Diploma Supplement includes the Curricular Units attended in the host institution. Besides academic tutoring, the DRI maintains a personal contact with the students through emails and telephone, whenever necessary. Regarding incoming students, their personal and academic tutoring is made by the DRI staff, providing information necessary for their quick integration in the country and the university, searching for accommodations and academic counselling. IADE offers a Portuguese course. About 60% of the faculty and staff are fluent in English, French or Spanish, 5% speak Italian, two teachers speak German and one speaks Russian. Both Teachers and Students in Erasmus mobility are supported by the DRI that is also responsible for the coordination of all the institutional and academic activities. The IADE s website features an English version, and foreign teachers and students will find all the information related to IADE and the courses held at the institution. Quality of student placement activities: What kind of specific measures are implemented to ensure high quality in student placements? Give details on how the workprogramme and the placement agreement are prepared and implemented. Please describe the practical arrangements agreed between the parties. Please specify also the monitoring and evaluation of the placement period as well as its recognition in the curriculum. The strategy includes the integration of 6 students at their final year in IADE in European countries companies for a 12 weeks training period, thus enhancing the importance of completing the training they have received, making their employability more easy and addressing the needs companies have of qualified staff, promoting the use of new Technologies. The objectives of this program are: to favour the insertion of future professionals in Design, Communication, Marketing and Advertising into the market; to continue the theoretical/academic training through a Professional apprenticeship in European companies; to augment the qualification levels and the knowledge of the European business world; to improve/enhance the entrepreneurial skills, the Professional autonomy and responsibility; to improve their professional, linguistic and intercultural skills. The activities included in this Project are: linguistic, cultural and pedagogic training; socialcultural activities; Professional training in local companies of the host countries; counselling, tutoring and evaluation, language and training certificate and competence validation. The main study areas of this Project are: Design, Communication, Advertising and Marketing, including all the areas within the Design School and the Marketing and Advertising School of IADE, encompassing the students of all specialized courses. The host companies will be selected according to the Professional profile of each participant, to his/her experience and skills. There will always be a previous counselling prior to the participants departure, and the beneficiaries will be selected according to their profile, the countries, the motivation, receiving information about the companies/institutions, the training plan. After their return, the participants will be evaluated and certified, and their results will be divulged through the local community and within IADE. 8 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

E3 ERASMUS Extended University Charter (Standard Charter and Student Placements) 2008/2009 2013/2014 The European Commission hereby awards this Charter to: UNIVERSITY of EUROPE (hereinafter "the Institution") The Institution agrees to comply with the following fundamental principles of Erasmus mobility: Mobility shall be carried out only within prior interinstitutional agreements(in the case of student placements: within prior agreements between the Institution and the organisations where the placements are carried out); No university fees for tuition, registration, examinations, access to laboratory and library facilities are to be charged to incoming Erasmus students Full recognition shall be given to students for satisfactorily completed activities specified in the compulsory Learning Agreements and Placement Agreements. The Institution also agrees: to ensure the highest quality in the organisation of student and staff mobility to ensure the highest quality in the organisation of student placements; to ensure that curriculum information is up to date, easily accessible and transparent; to ensure that an academic credit transfer system (ECTS or similar) gives transparency to the recognition procedures to ensure equal academic treatment and services to home and Erasmus students to support the integration of visiting Erasmus students in the Institution's activities to provide incoming Erasmus students and their home institutions with transcripts containing full, accurate and timely information at the end of their mobility period abro to facilitate and acknowledge Erasmus teaching activities to promote and give visibility to the activities supported by the Erasmus programme to publicise this Charter and the related Erasmus Policy Statement of the Institution to comply with the objectives on non discrimination set out in the Lifelong Learning Programme. This Charter entitles the Institution to apply to its National Agency and to the European Commission for grant support for Erasmus activities. Violation of this Charter may lead to its withdrawal by the Commission. 9 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25

F Endorsement of the application "I, the undersigned, Head and legal representative of the applicant institution, certify that the information contained in this application is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge. All Erasmus activities will be implemented on the basis of written agreements with the relevant authorities of the partner institutions; agree to the content of the Erasmus University Charter outlined above and commit my institution to respect and observe these obligations; confirm that the information given in the application submitted online and in this paper version is identical; agree to the publication of the Erasmus Policy Statement by the European Commission. Place: Name: Date (dd/mm/yy): Original signature of the legal representative of the Institution (as identified in section A.2 above) Original stamp or seal of the Institution Acknowledgement of receipt After submission, Applicants are invited to consult the website of the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency EACEA to check successful receipt of their Erasmus University Charter (EUC) application. If by 21.12.2007 the application has not been listed on the website, the applicant should contact the EACEA EACEA EUC@ec.europa.eu. 10 248403IC120081PTERASMUSEUCX1 Imprimé le : 30112007 13:16:36 Soumis le : 30112007 13:16:25