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Offer students proactive

guidance on how the

exchange is suitable for

achieving the programme

outcomes

• Provide guidance before, during and after mobility.
• Coordinate guidance activities and formulate shared objectives
and clear guidelines for guidance on exchanges, based on the
student’s programme and qualification requirements.
• Establish a proactive and development-focused guidance chain.
• Appoint lecturers with specific responsibility for guidance.
• Improve competence and interest in internationalisation and
exchanges among all staff.

Provide guidance before, during and after
mobility

Guidance for education abroad can be divided into three phases: before, during and
after the period abroad. These phases and concrete guidance tips are described
on the website https://www.uhr.se/euroguidance/ compiled by Euroguidance
Sweden. The tips are intended to increase the quality of the exchange itself. UHR
is the Swedish Euroguidance centre and thus has the ongoing task of develop-
ing guidance counsellors’ competence and interest in internationalisation and
exchanges to increase European mobility.

Guidance work prior to a period abroad should focus on motivating, clarifying
the academic purpose of the student exchange, and preparing the student for the
exchange. The preparations should be both academic and practical. To guaran-
tee the quality of the exchange, the student should also have the opportunity to
receive guidance during their period abroad. The student must take more respon-
sibility for their own learning during a period abroad and may therefore require
learning support. A student on an exchange should therefore have an academic
contact person at their home HEI that they are able to contact.

On a period abroad, learning does not stop after returning home; impressions and
experiences are processed during the subsequent period. This is an important and
integrated part of the whole learning process. Guidance can therefore optimise
the results of the exchange in the time after returning from abroad. The purpose
is to bring structure and direction to the learning process that has occurred, by
helping the student to evaluate and follow up their experiences.

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