The International Mobility Strategy of the ENSA El Jadida in Moroccothe Case Study of Student’s Exchange with Spain

Resumen

The call for more student and scientist exchanges, because of the globalization processes, is the present trend in science and research institutions worldwide. Nowadays, many universities and institutions aim offering anopportunity for transferring knowledge and experience to their students, and have launched international cooperation programs. Institutional programs are usually centered in collaborative projects amongst higher education and research organizations, with the aim of strengthening their performance capacity. This contribution presents the initiative of internationalization of the Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d’El Jadida at the Chouaïb Doukkali University inMorocco. The aim is to facilitate the professional integration of students in an internationalizing environment and to promote the international dimension of research activities. The cooperation for exchange of its undergraduate engineering students with the University of Burgos in Spain is described. For six years, eleven students of the engineering cycle Energy and Electrical Engineering have performed an internship in summer as part of a collaboration agreement with the Energy Engineering research group at the University of Burgos. The experience demonstrates the improvement of scientific, technical, operational, research and personal competences of those students participating in the experience. the institutional support of the respective universities and the need of leading persons within the respective universities able to carry out the experiences in the long term have been estimated as the key factor for success.