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The mission of the University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica (www.vvg.hr) is development, continued modernization and implementation of courses, specialized graduate courses, life-long learning programs and realization of professional and scientific activities in the areas of crisis management, eye optometry, information technologies, motor vehicle maintenance, aircraft engineering and management of logistic systems and processes.Our vision is to become a renowned and technologically contemporary educational institution with unique courses in the Republic of Croatia and its surroundings.In order to achieve this vision,the Institution aims to continuously work on: developing own teaching cadre, application of contemporary teaching technology, establishment of successful cooperation with economy sector and other potential employers of our students, monitoring and securing the quality of educational process. Due to the specialized and technical courses, the University needs to deal with European colleagues and thus the exchange of students and staff will be an opportunity’ to achieve their goals.The University objectives as exchange of knowledge, improving existing courses, contribution to the quality of the education system, will be reached by participating in the Erasmus programme.The University international cooperation is based on international cooperation of professors and students, mutual exchange of experiences and contributions to the relations between the professors and institutions in the fields of scientific, professional and lecturing work, international conferences and exhibitions, as well as workshops, seminars and future joint cooperation projects.It is the significant number of lecturers that made visits abroad and the guest visits made by foreign lecturers at the University, in the fields of scientific, professional and lecturing work. Our Institute has been a part of numerous international and global conferences, counseling sessions and professional events, such as NATO Civil Exercise in the Areas of Protection and Rescue: IDASSA 2007;NATO Workshop 2007;FORMEZ Seminars 2007;TIEMS workshop Croatia 2006;Interprotex,Medicine and Technics 2006;International Conference CRISIS MANAGEMENT DAYS. Our University signed an agreement with the Medical School Massarykovog University in Brno with the mutual goal of improving the quality of the teaching process.The international cooperation and placement has been established with the School of Mechanical and Transport Engineering and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in matters of aircraft maintenance, and students have been involved in the study visits to Lufthansa Technik Airmotive Ireland and Shannon Airmotive Ltd. The specific activities such as exchange of students and staff,development of cooperation with higher education institutions or other types of institutions,participation in Erasmus multilateral projects/networks will be implemented by participating in the Erasmus programme.

The Erasmus University Charter and the EPS will be advertised through University web site, www.vvg.hr, as well as through notice board, poster and publicizing the activities’ by Erasmus tutor.To give visibility to Erasmus activities,the University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica’s web site will be updated with reports after exchange periods.The web site will be also the main tool for exchange information about lessons, classrooms, materials, news, calendars of events and practical information.

The quality system of the Velika Gorica University of Applied Science has been established in accordance with international standards for introducing quality system ISO 9001 for organization and implementation of higher education for professional study programmes (certificate no.CH07/0692,issued on 9 July 2007, by SGS Adriatica/SWISS).The system is governed particularly in accordance with ESG Guidelines (ENQA-Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area)and ISO/IWA 2-and based on the guidelines for implementation of ISO standards in educational institutions. Direct measurement of the quality of the studying process is based on an annual evaluation of the quality system of the teaching process. Our University fully implements the ECTS credit system. Introducing lower admission numbers enables greater control of the quality of educational process which is very important in applying requirements of Bologna process. The purpose of the process is to decrease the number of students per group in order to apply mentoring approach and interactive work with students. Existing course programs contain a great deal of practical work, which enables students to become familiar with own profession already during the studies and which also enables potential employers to gain insight into students’ abilities. Every student of the University of Applied Sciences has a web account which it is used to show student position (ECTS credits, exams, sign in to exam, administrative information etc).The tutor of the Erasmus programme will help incoming exchange students to plan their exchange semester at our institution: they reserve accommodation upon demand, send out information packages, and organize an orientation program upon arrival. Croatian language courses are available. Incoming students are provided with an academic adviser who helps them to choose appropriate courses. In order to support and encourage staff mobility, we offer English language training.