WELCOME DAY FOR THE ERASMUS+ INCOMING STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD

The University of Novi Sad welcomed the Erasmus+ incoming students in the summer semester of 2021/2022 academic year, with the special event organized on 2^nd March 2022.

The Welcome Day was officially opened by the Vice-Rector for International Affairs Prof. Dr. Sabina Halupka-Rešetar, who said that the University of Novi Sad is steadily approaching the scope of the academic mobility that it had before 2020 and the start of the pandemic which caused a significant decline of both outgoing and incoming mobility. She added that the goal of the University of Novi Sad is to have more inclusive and overall exchange of professors, students and administrative staff within the Erasmus+ programme, following the University strategic priorities in the field of internationalization.

“An important goal of the University of Novi Sad is to achieve a proper balance between the outgoing and incoming mobility, to encourage student mobility within all three cycles of study and to ensure that a wider mobility of both academic and administrative staff achieves sustainable influence on the internationalization process of our institution as a whole,” Professor Halupka-Rešetar said. „International credit mobility brings a lot of benefits to students and staff, but at the same time it is an exceptional mechanism for the University and its services to build their capacities and enhance their quality”, added the Vice-Rector.

The Welcome Day programme also included the presentations by Ivana Vujkov, the Head of the University International Relations Office, Ivana Banjac, the President of the Erasmus+ Student Network, Ivana Ikonić from the University Central Library and Prof. Dr. Jelena Redli from the Center for Serbian as a Foreign Language of the Faculty of Philosophy. Furthermore, the students also had the opportunity to meet the Erasmus+ coordinators at UNS faculties where the students will spend their mobility period in the current semester.

The overall number of incoming student mobility in 2021/2022 is over 90 and the most of the mobility quota has been planned for the summer semester. The students’ home institutions include a number of UNS partner universities from 19 countries, including Spain, Poland, Germany, Turkey, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Greece, Croatia, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Russia, Portugal, North Macedonia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia.