During May 2025 SuMoS project team organized a series of local workshops for academic and non-academic staff in partner countries. The events brought together 56 participants, creating a dynamic space for dialogue and collaboration.
The workshops aimed to gather valuable feedback from key stakeholders, ensuring that their insights directly contribute to enriching the project’s outcomes. These outcomes form the foundation for the next phase in developing the Institutional Student Mobility Ecosystem (ISME).
Some of the main findings were as follows:
- Parents are recognized as important stakeholders as they can influence student decisions to participate in student mobility to a greater extent.
- Participants pointed out that certain academic disciplines exhibit significantly lower participation rates in study-abroad programmes (such as engineering, natural sciences, medicine…).
- Difficulty in helping students reach a satisfactory level of information.
- Some students face challenges due to limited English proficiency.
- Financial issues are seen as a potential barrier for some students.
- The current political situation and instability are viewed as potential threats, along with concerns about the climate, public health and demographic trends.
- Shortage of staff members in international offices at both the faculty and university levels is identified as a significant institutional weakness.
As a final outcome, participants of each workshop collaboratively created a SWOT analysis, identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the credit mobility system in their countries.
