Our overarching aim in participating Erasmus+ program was to increase internationalization at the EUAS to support our goals, vision and mission by providing additional professional and self-development opportunities for both students and staff. We encouraged the students to study, to undertake internships abroad to broaden their horizon and explore additional development opportunities for successful careers. We offered employees new innovative international development opportunities (incl. sharing experiences, teaching in a multicultural classroom, finding new partners, developing existing curricula and joint programs). Which enabled them to improve language and intercultural communication skills whilst acquiring a range of other soft skills through guest lectures, international classrooms as well as the international environment of the University. The Erasmus+ program has enabled us to practice principles of non-discrimination and equal treatment which are among the core values at the EUAS. We believe, diversity is a strength and harnessing this diversity creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued and where talents are fully utilized. __________________________ In more detail, our general aims were: • to encourage EUAS students to study and to undertake internships abroad to broaden their horizon and offer additional development opportunities for successful careers; • to create opportunities for students from different countries to study, have an internship in Estonia and familiarize them with various opportunities Estonia is offering incl. educational system, the Estonian business landscape, internship opportunities, sustainability, culture etc; • to offer employees new innovative international development opportunities (incl. sharing experiences, teaching in a multicultural classroom, finding new partners, developing existing curricula and joint programs); • to be a research and development partner for higher education institutions and companies throughout Europe strengthening cooperation through more efficient usages of existing educational resources; We aimed to give students and/or staff an opportunity: • to gain an international experience irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, color, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. The principles of non-discrimination and equal treatment are among our core values at the EUAS. We believe, diversity is a strength and harnessing this diversity creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued and where talents are fully utilized; • to learn from each other and to exchange and share their values, experience, knowledge and skills; • to gain international experience without leaving Estonia by having incoming Erasmus students studying with local students. The aim was to encourage students to share their knowledge, cultural and lived experiences and enrich lectures and groupwork through exploring their opinions with fellow students; • to improve language and intercultural communication skills whilst acquiring a range of other soft skills through guest lectures, international classrooms as well as the international environment of the university; • through extracurricular activities to network and form friendships and offer additional development opportunities for future cooperation; • to enhance future employability; • to build up personal and professional network; • to experience different learning/teaching contents/curricula; • to improve their foreign language skills through studying/teaching/communicating in a foreign language; • to share visiting academic’s expertise and best practice with EUAS staff and students through guest lectures, groupwork and group or one to one meetings; • to share expertise during staff teaching mobilities and explore/share best practice while learning from their colleagues during training visits; • to experiment and develop new innovative learning practices /teaching methods; • to enhance academic collaboration activities by networking and development of joint courses/curricula or modules, establishing new contacts for joint programs/ curricula development, scientific research and other collaboration and partnership activities. To meet these goals EUAS has worked on increasing the number of international students/staff choosing to study/teach at the EUAS and is promoting Erasmus+ program mobility options to all EUAS students/staff to increase the number of incoming/outgoing student/staff mobilities. We have also worked hard on staff/students satisfaction rates and the actual benefits from their mobilities.