Systèmes juridiques et droit des entreprises dans l´UE : traduire et interpréter dans la diversité Erasmus Project

Project Title

Systèmes juridiques et droit des entreprises dans l´UE : traduire et interpréter dans la diversité

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The Strategic partnership entitled “Legal Systems and Business Law in the EU : Translating and Interpreting in Diversity” and realized between September 2015 and August 2018 relied on the already existing cooperation within a consortium of seven higher education institutions acting as partners: the University of South Bohemia (CZ), the University of South Brittany (FR), the University of Vigo (ESP), the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (Portugal), the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest (RO), the Graduate School of Ventspils (LV) and the University of Prešov (SK) under the new conditions of the Erasmus+ programme. The amount of the obtained grant was 214 763 EUR of which 211 732 EUR were actually activated.
These institutions were able to offer their students through the Strategic partnership so established an innovative formula of a multinational and multidisciplinary education resolutely oriented to acquiring transversal, language and entrepreneurial skills. The project thus met the needs of young graduates who wish to enter the labor market with not only theoretical knowledge, but also with practical, cross-cultural and multilingual skills, thus enhancing their employability.
The project focused especially on the dissemination of interdisciplinary approaches, the development of cross-cultural skills and of entrepreneurial spirit of participants. The project intended for the final year students of Bachelor degree required continuous work on specific projects and activities before the organization in one of the participant countries of the intensive study program involving professionals.
Each year, 35 students from 7 European countries, from different fields of study (languages, translation and interpretation, law, economics) were selected to work in an international multilingual environment, created during an effective mobility in České Budějovice in 2016, in Ventspils in 2017 and in Lorient in 2018. This experience is a significant asset when they enter the labor market.
Positive impacts are observed on students who were evaluated and graded, and on their teachers (in total 127 persons – foreign students and teachers – were directly supported within organized intensive study programs), but also on their institutions that can take advantage of contacts made with companies in order to strengthen new relationships with the labour market. As for the companies – also beneficiaries of the Project -, they are able to derive benefit from better trained graduates, access to new resources made available on a website created ad hoc and grouping video recordings of sessions, documents helping creating a company in the 7 countries, glossaries and translation of the most common documents used in the activity of a company, either a translation or an import/export one.
The activities of the consortium also generated a number of tangible results divided into 4 categories including a package of business-related pedagogical materials and three groups of national case studies (Czech, Latvians and French) which are available on the internet site created. On this website, as well as on the Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform, some of the materials considered as relevant educational and professional resources are freely available for the use of professionals and of teachers from other higher education institutions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 211347 Eur

Project Coordinator

JIHOCESKA UNIVERZITA V CESKYCH BUDEJOVICICH & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO
• UNIVERSITE DE BRETAGNE SUD
• PRESOVSKA UNIVERZITA V PRESOVE
• VENTSPILS AUGSTSKOLA
• UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DE CONSTRUCTII BUCURESTI
• UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO