As established in the EPS: “The Arrigo Boito Conservatory of Music (CMAB) promotes an international relations policy aimed at developing openness, understanding and exchange between different cultures, in Europe and in the world; supports every initiative that can promote human, educational and professional growth of the people who study and work there, in the belief that music is a universal means for profound communication between individuals and society". CMAB actively participates in the KA 1 actions and adheres to 2 consortia in order to offer its students and staff the maximum possibility of mobility. General objectives: improvement of academic, linguistic, cultural skills and personal and social opportunities for all participants. Specific objectives: For students: broaden and deepen the forms of learning; For teachers: raise the quality of teaching, by comparing teaching methods, the exchange and updating of contents; For non-academic staff: foster the exchange of good practices and cooperation between partners; For the institution and for the system: consolidate and develop an international mentality, a stimulus for dialogue and improvement at an institutional and systemic level. The project envisaged the possibility of every possible SM and ST action (in and out, Blended Intensive Programmes), including STA mobility from enterprise (digital), to ensure a maximization of the impact on the institution and on the participants. DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN a. Outgoing activities. Following the interinstitutional agreements signed and the calls approved and published, the selection of candidates (students-staff) followed a documented, transparent, fair, inclusive, meritocratic, non-discriminatory process; before the mobility, the participants were supported in linguistic and logistical preparation; monitoring actions were undertaken during the mobility; at the end of the mobility, the participants were recognized in terms of total hours (staff), credits and grades (students) and were fully reintegrated into academic life. Following the strategy of he past years, in which the pivotal element was the creation of new centre of knowledge and a net of shared expertise, many training mobilities were intended to the develop and research new partner and discover new paths in sharing teaching methods. b. Incoming activities for the staff has been developed with the goal of exchange good practices (in teaching and management), to create new projects and to welcome teachers in the important Ear training project SENTIAMOCI A PARMA. c. Students: The incoming ones were examined by departmental commissions; before the mobility they received information from the international office for the good organization of the mobility and supported by the internal Tutor for the definition of the Learning Agreement; during the mobility they were supported and monitored by the International Relations Office, by the Secretariat and by the Tutor; at the end of the mobility they received a transcript of records and a certificate of the mobility. d. Teachers: The proposals were examined by departmental commissions with a dual logic: the integration of the teaching programs with skillsnot present in the institution and the inclusion of teachers in research projects. Conservatorio hosted a Blended Intensive programme, and partecipated to a 2 BIPS aborad. IMPACT AND RESULTS ACHIEVED In general: An improvement of linguistic, personal, social and cultural skills for all participants. In particular: - For students: The deepening of knowledge through the seminars held by the teachers; - For teachers: The raising of the qualitative level of teaching, through the comparison of teaching methods, the exchange and updating of contents; - For non-academic staff: Exchange of management practices, cooperation between partners; - For the institution and for the system: The seminars of incoming teachers have expanded the training offer also through their inclusion in research projects; the dialogue with different academic realities has led to an awareness of one's limits and strengths. LONG-TERM BENEFITS Thanks to the Erasmus Program a profound change of mentality has developed, which sees internationalization as a structural added value of a modern Musical Higher Education institution in terms of academic quality (implementation of courses, cooperation between Institutions) and in "opening mind" at every level of the Conservatory (personnel, teachers, student) and in the city life.