At Toulouse Capitole University, European student mobility is on the increase, with more than 330 incoming and 376 outgoing students taking part in the Erasmus programme this year. The University also encourages its teaching and administrative staff to take part in professional development activities abroad, which may include periods of teaching and training. For example, in 2022-2023, 26 lecturers and 13 administrative staff have benefited from the Erasmus programme.

Building on its experience, UT Capitole pursues the development of its European double degrees, particularly in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Greece and Ireland, in several disciplines (Law, Economics, Management and Political Science), making the university a pilot 'laboratory' in this area. Next academic year, a double Master's degree with a multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues will be offered in conjunction with partner university LUISS (Rome).

Innovative international training courses over shorter periods are also being developed. These include:

• Summer universities: there are many of these, on different themes ranging from new management techniques to empirical research in law, and they can bring together students and/or teachers from partner higher education establishments, such as KU Leuven (Belgium), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), etc.


• Short incoming and outgoing mobility programmes, such as the Blended Intensive Programme: students from Rodez, for example, were able to benefit from this experience, as were law students, who had the privilege of going to Naples. In the frame of these same programmes, this summer we will be welcoming students from Udine (Italy), Belgrade (Serbia) and Rijeka (Croatia).


• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): this type of online teaching gives students an international experience that does not require geographical mobility. They are developed with European partners (Ireland, Sweden, etc.).

 

The ENGAGE.EU alliance, a real asset for UT Capitole education and research

   

• Around a hundred online masters and bachelor courses, updated every semester as part of the Online Exchange Initiative (OEI), as well as ten multidisciplinary modules. This new offering has already enabled more than 400 students to enhance their education.

• A joint Certificate in Digital Transformation: this multi-disciplinary course is being run in a hybrid format over several weekends and has welcomed around a hundred students. It will bring participants together for a week-long face-to-face seminar in Mannheim.

• Expedition Weeks: organized several times a year, these educational experiments challenge students to come up with a solution to an issue identified by players of the socio-economic world (Smart City, energy transition, etc.). Students learn innovative project management methods to meet the challenges of today's world.

• in September 2022, in Mannheim, on "digitalization",


• from 30 May to 2 June 2023, in Toulouse, on "gender inequality".

Research projects funded by the European Commission

   

• By 2022, this will represent almost 100 European partners, both academic (e.g. Politechnic University of Madrid, Austrian Institute of Technology, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences) and non-academic (e.g. Spanish Ministry of the Interior, Greek Ministry of Defence). These European partnerships are enabling the development of large-scale research on a wide range of subjects. Two projects involving IRIT professors and researchers stand out: RUCAPS and EFFECTOR.


• 8 TSE researchers are currently funded by the European Research Council. The ERC funds exploratory research projects at the frontiers of knowledge, in all areas of science and technology, with excellence as the selection criterion.