The aim for the 2024 agreement, at the time of applying for the higher education grant and with a view to drafting our ECHE charter, was to continue the institution’s existing European and international development strategy, which was already in place at A-level. At that time, we were planning to offer as many activities as possible in terms of student and staff mobility, in line with European policy priorities. The search for partners was also launched in parallel with the application, with a view to devising study mobility schemes to offer to students from the institution’s various applied arts departments. Following the agency’s response and receipt of the budget, the person responsible for the post-A-level Erasmus+ project changed, and the institution did not join the consortium envisaged when the charter was drafted. The strategy has therefore changed in the short term. It was necessary to scale back the scope of our first agreement for several reasons: the main one being that the management of international outreach is now handled by a single lecturer. As this post-A-level Erasmus+ coordinator is responsible for both coordinating our Master’s-level programme and international development, a workload that was too substantial and ambitious for the first agreement did not seem feasible to carry out properly. Furthermore, the responses received from the vast majority of institutions contacted abroad have made it clear to us that it would be difficult to approach partner institutions without prior experience and without having developed a robust communication strategy for our courses. Finally, the new strategy put in place was also revised following a presentation in February 2024 to teachers of the post-A-level Applied Arts courses on the programmes and opportunities offered by Erasmus+. Despite previous experience at A-level, the teaching team appeared concerned about their ability to exploit the project opportunities. Therefore, we felt it was essential to focus on developing the mobility schemes most in demand at the institution, namely work placement mobility. This allowed us to take the time to reassure the teams and gradually open them up to visits and training mobility schemes, with the long-term aim of achieving an international outlook that offers a more diverse range of activities.