Opportunities for mobility

Mobility and exchange is something most will have heard of before, and it is typically somehting which pupils at High School (Videregående skole) or students at University have been able to take advantage of.
However, this is now changing, Fagskolen i Viken is now working hard both investing time and resources to make Higher Vocational College (Fagskole) more international by collaborating with international partners in development projects and by making student mobility available.
We are at the beginning of an exciting journey!
Student on exchange

Mobility on the VET charter - (Vocational Education Charter. Level 5)

Under the VET charter there are plenty of exciting opportunities:

  • Participation in VET skills competitions (1-10 days)
    Group mobilitty (5 days+) 
    Short-term learning mobility of VET Learners (10 - 89 days)
    Long-term learning mobility of VET Learners (Erasmus pro) (90 - 365 days)

It is even possible to make arrangement for shorter mobility periodes (from 2 days) for students with fewer opportunities. It is key for Erasmus+ to be as available and inclusive as possible.

For VET mobility to be approved, there are certain requirements.
Firstly, you need to have a receiving organisation who is able and willing to adhere to the requirements for the mobility as specified in a Learning Agreement.
Typically, the programme manager for your studyprogramme will be the main driver in making arrangements with a suitable receiving organisation, but it is also possible for you to make enquries.

A mobility must fulfill these requirements:

  • Minimum duration 5 days excluding travel days
  • Include a minimum of 4 hours of dauly workbased aktivity each day - must be 20hr a week.
  • Have an approved Learning Agreement
  • Have a Grant Agreement
  • Have an approved receiving organisation
  • Completion of a Participant Report on return
     

Available funding:

Through Erasmus+, funding is available for most student mobility.
The rates are determined based on duration, receiving country and distance from sending organisation.

Students will receive funding towards Travel and Individual Support which is a daily rate determined by which receiving country you are staying in.

All mobilities need to be confirmed with both your programme manager and the International coordinator. FiV applies for funding through Erasmus+ in February
each year, this for funding for use in the following academic year - this means that it is important that the Head of Department is involved early.

Mobility on the ECHE - Erasmus Charter for Higher Education

We are currently collaborating with Hogeschool Rotterdam on a mobility project using Erasmus+ funding for ECHE Short Term Blended Mobility.

In 2023/24 5 Norwegian students from campus Kongsberg participated in the project. Read more about this here ››
 

During this Short Term Blended Mobility project, students from FiV and students for Hogeschool Rotterdam worked together on a project (forprosjekt).


In August 2023 the project started with Dutch students coming to Norway for the project Kick-off weeks, the project continued online throughout the semester and is concluded in December when the Norwegian students went to Rotterdam for their final work and presentations.

For 2024/25 FiV have applied for funding to carry out a similar project together with Hogeschool Rotterdam and hope to involve 10 students from FiV this round. The project will be open for Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Machine, Automation, Industry 4.0, students in their 2nd year about to start work on their pre - project (forprosjekt).
 

Students partaking in this project will receive Erasmu+ funding for their mobility to Rotterdam.