We are at the University of Perpignan and we are organizing our first international day:
a day dedicated to students
as well as to the university's teaching staff, technical staff,
to encourage, to promote international mobility.
Mobility for students is a fundamental axis.
CEOs are now seeking CVs that include language skills and an experience abroad.
It is a bonus, it increases the employability of our students.
Hanane : We have changed countries, continents, study programs;
this shows that we are able to adapt.
Didier Aussel : Each year, about 20 percent of students
who enroll at the University of Perpignan
are foreign students with 120 nationalities represented,
almost a national record.
Hanane : I wanted to know other people,
to see other horizons, to discover other cultures, traditions;
I wanted to have another worldview.
Tatiana : You become more curious; you become a little more interesting
because you encounter many new things so it is an enriching experience.
Walid : You are not only going to study,
there is so much to do.
You will visit museums and go to the beach.
You will know people, learn about cultures, languages: it's fantastic.
Didier Aussel : One of the objectives of this day
is to explain to students the upsides to undertaking an international mobility
beyond the cultural aspects but also for their careers and in their curriculaon one hand,
and on the other hand to explain the means
put in place to organize this mobility,
to financially support this mobility.
Chandrashekhar : I found it difficult first of all,
just the language is the first barrier,
and be prepared for the administration, so to make a lot of papers.
Valentin : Do not be afraid to spend weeks and weeks
learning from newspapers, the internet and other sources.
You must not neglect this step, because the more you will master
what you will see there and the less stressed we will be.
Tatiana : For those who are afraid:
you have to face your fears.
You face them and then everything will be fine.
It comes with time, I think.
Didier Aussel : There is no risk, we are here to support you
and so are structures like the Occitan region, which can help financially.
There is a tradition,
the universities that welcome students are also extremely open to international mobility.
Amara : We come to acquire knowledge here in France
and it would be great if others went to discover our study programs.
Chouaib : Speaking with another person,
for example a Norwegian or German or English,
is an enriching experience.
Didier Aussel : The underlying theme of this event
is really interaction, interculturality.
Students who come study here at the University of Perpignan
present their countries, make students want to go there,
and we explain the benefits and the means set up to make it happen.
Sylvain : I would like to go work abroad
at the end of my studies
and therefore to have a first experience abroad with this mobility.
Jérémy : There are many things that are done differently abroad
so it really makes you want to go out and see what else is being done.
Didier Aussel : The first quality that we will find
in a student who has made a mobility
here we are speaking about a mobility of a few months obviously,
to get to grips with a local culture
is really this open-mindedness.
Hanane : Dare, go ahead, learn!
Valentin : It's almost interesting finally to feel in danger and to learn from it
Jérémy : It can only be beneficial: we go and at worst, we do not like it and we return,
but we have nothing to lose in going.
Walid : Such an experience will remain engraved forever.
I will never forget it.
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