Through the implementation of the Erasmus+ project, the University of Ruse had as an aim to fulfil its strategy for internationalisation and modernisation, including: - to widen and intensify its international cooperation through participation of teachers, staff and students in mobility, which is the main instrument for integration in the European Education Area, - to bring benefit to the non-mobile participants, - to increase the reciprocal mobility, - to increase the number of its partners, also geographically, in order to offer a wide range of mobility opportunities and to meet all students’ requests for mobility. - to develop spin-off project activities, - to improve the curricula and its international dimension according to the modernisation strategy, - to develop research-business cooperation, - to influence positively the participants in their aspiration to be successful on the European labour market (students), through increasing knowledge, including language and intercultural skills, - to increase the qualification of staff through exchange of experience, best practices and know-how, - to strengthen and maintain the European identity of the university, to improve its visibility and its competitiveness on regional, national and international level, respecting the principles of the Erasmus charter in the relation with its partners and respecting the basic documents of the Erasmus programme, as well as the instructions of the national Erasmus agency, - to contribute to the realisation of the fundamental principles of the European Education Area – to make mobility a reality for all, to considerably improve the recognition of study periods abroad, to increase the language ability of people, to accomplish transnational cooperation (incl. European Universities, which is already a fact for the University of Ruse at the time of writing the report), to apply more innovation, - to contribute to the priorities of EU - encouraging green travel, using digital tools, including participants with fewer opportunities, invoking critical thinking and active citizenship. For the achievement of the project goals, the University relies on the established structure including existing contact persons of bilateral agreements as well as new ones. Most of the partners that are described in the project have been long-term collaborating institutions within framework agreements and other projects and this project has contributed significantly for further development of the cooperation.