Our achievements to reach have been influenced both by Centria’s 2021-2024, as well as 2025-2028 strategies during the project period. In the earlier strategy, internationality has been emphasized through teaching and by promoting students’ ability to operate in multicultural environments. International approach towards whatever we do, and integrating internationalisation into all of Centria’s operations has been clearly defined in the 2021-2024 document. We were aiming to increase not only the international competences of students and staff through education, but also to grow the number of mobilities among them, by supporting study and work exchanges abroad. In the current times, continuing on this thought, one of the strategic goals Centria has set in its’ new strategy for 2025-2028, is strengthening internationalisation, namely “internationality” as one of our central activities, while the qualitative employment of international students has also been marked in the forefront. Centria and its’ stakeholders recognise the need for international competence, thus we take our role seriously in educating international experts, according to the region’s needs. During the administration of the 2023 project, both of our strategic documents had an influence on our Erasmus+ activities: we aimed to grow the number of our international agreements, focusing on strategic partnerships, we put our best effort into promoting mobility possibilities and traineeships, as well as we further aimed to internationalise our campus life not only with foreign degree students, but with Erasmus exchange students alike. We also did recognise in our 2025-2028 strategy, that Finnish and international students at Centria typically study in their own groups, with few mutual encounters. This is why we especially aimed to integrate these student groups during this project period, enabling our domestic students to practice their international skills, and in return, allowing international students to familiarise themselves more with Finnish society and culture. We aimed to create a sense of multicultural, international community with a student centered focus. Contributing to this core strategic aim, Erasmus+ mobility played a pivotal role in our operational activities during the project period, but it keeps its’ importance also in the currently running projects. Erasmus+ KA131 is Centria’s main source of funding for mobility activities, based on the overall number of exchanges. We consider it a worthwhile investment to build strong intercultural competences, language and communication skills and fresh perspectives among our students. Additionally, the programme offers our teachers and other staff members opportunities to gain international teaching experience, or new ways of providing support services to students. Through the project, our colleagues are able to expand their professional networks regardless of their field of expertise, and deepen cooperation with like-minded professionals from partner universities. Reciprocally, incoming exchange students and staff from partner universities have the chance to familiarise themselves with the Finnish higher education system and experience a culture that may be very different from their own. These students and staff have been engines of internationalisation at home for those who are unable to participate in mobilities, or are yet to go in the future. In our rapidly globalizing world, it is vital that students and staff familiarise themselves with other cultures and languages, and learn how to operate in an international environment. Erasmus+ is the main catalyst of this, covering the partnership building, agreement preparation and the funding of mobilities. Without the Erasmus+ funding, we would not be able to send our students and staff for mobility periods on this scale, nor to host internationals with such efficiency. Our long-term objective, spanning across project periods, is to send as many students and staff members as possible on mobilities. We aim to particularly increase the number of outgoing students and aspire to reach the pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels. Erasmus+ also allows us to collaborate with our partner institutions not only in mobilities, but in various other ways. Centria’s RDI teams work on around 100 projects each year. We actively seek new international project opportunities within our Erasmus+ partner network. We are already involved in several projects that are funded by the European Union. These collaborations offer students and staff valuable experience in fields such as digitalisation, entrepreneurship and business, wellbeing and health, robo AI, smart wood, chemistry and bioeconomy. Our RDI activities have significant regional impact. Participating in international Erasmus+ projects provide new insights and development opportunities for our degree programmes, as well as for companies and businesses locally, nationally and internationally.