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1. Erasmus Staff
Exchange Week
Internationalising
Student Support
15–19 May

2. Maria Amor Romero
Angela Brusis
Anna Andriouchina
Anne Makkonen
Maria Amor Romero currently works in the Faculty of
Philosophy, Geography and History at the University of
Barcelona, which is the most formidable public institution
of higher education in Catalonia, catering to the largest
number of students in Spain at 62,984.
Angela Brusis is currently the International Relations
Officer at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State
University, and she thoroughly enjoys her work in the
Black Forest. Through personal experience, she feels well
equipped to consult students from abroad, or those seeking
to study abroad.
Anna Andriouchina has been working as International
Officer at the Université de Rennes 1 since 2014. Anna is in
charge of Incoming Mobility of the Science Campus and her
aim is to attract new partners and to provide greater support
to the incoming exchange students.
Anne Makkonen from Lappeenranta University of
Technology, Finland is currently working as an
International Officer at Student Services. LUT Student
Services offers services to both domestic and international
students, as they no longer have a separate international
office.
Participants

3. Caroline Beyaert
Name
Name
Dagmar Hofmann
Aura Bachs
Burcu Turkoglu
Christelle Sapata
Aura Bachs is a Government Scholarships Coordinator at
Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain,
where she is in charge of processing annual Government
Scholarships, who give financial aid to nearly the 22% of
students. UPF is a public, international and research-intensive
university that, in just 25 years, has earned a place for itself
among the best universities in Europe.
Burcu Turkoglu is the Erasmus+ Exchange Program
Specialist at Internationals Programs Office of TED
University in Ankara, Turkey, and has been working there
since November 2016.
Caroline Beyaert currently lives near Lille in Northern France.
Since 2012, she has been working as a Personal Assistant at
the International Academy, which is part of the Communauté
d’Universités et Établissements Lille Nord de France. They
offer a full linguistic, cultural and academic preparation in
French in line with the student’s field of studies, in addition
to a welcome service, administrative support and insight into
educational integration.
Christelle Sapata is in charge of the International Relations
Office of the Faculty of Economics and Management in
Aix-en-Provence. Her mission is to enhance the
internationalisation of the faculty through new agreements,
increased outgoing and incoming mobility.
For the last eight years Dagmar has been coordinating
several master programmes at Berlin School of Economics
and Law (International Economics, Political Economy of
European Integration and Accounting and Controlling).
The Master Office takes care of all organisational matters
throughout students’ studies, from the admission process
(almost half of the applicants are from foreign countries) up
to graduation.

4. Justina Vitonyte
Fernando Leandro
Baladron
Elke Anna Weisgerber
Indre Simkiene
Fernando Leandro Baladron is the current Social Media
Manager at CEU University, Spain. His responsibilities include
creating and developing social media strategies, managing
online reputations and analysis of the performance of all
social media platforms. He is also currently a teacher in
Master of European Public Relations and Digital
Communication.
Elke Anna Weisgerber is the current Study Programme
Coordinator at ASH Berlin, which is an interdisciplinary,
research-intensive yet practice-oriented university which
offers a diverse range of professional and further
education perspectives for a number of careers.
Indrė Šimkienė is from the beautiful city of Klaipeda in
Lithuania near the Baltic Sea and currently works at Klaipeda
University, which was established in 1990. Klaipeda
University has more than 4,000 students and 1,100 staff,
including 500 professors and lecturers.
Justina Vitonyte is currently working as an Office
Administrator in the Department for Internationalisation.
Currently, she is managing and collaborating with the KTU
Erasmus Student Network section who volunteer on a
variety of different areas and ensure the best experience for
the exchange and degree students in Lithuania.
Name Magdalena Markiewicz
In 2010 Magdalena joined the Maritime University of
Szczecin as a Project Manager and in 2013 was
given the responsibility of building a team for the
International Students and Mobility Office as its Head. Since
then she has been actively engaged with
internationalisation, international student recruitment
and support and the challenges of building a multinational
student community.

5. Marieke van Schagen
Name
Name
Oksana Mladenova
Malgorzata Smigiel
Mariana Paunova
Nikolaj Zethner
Malgorzata works as a Student Mobility Coordinator at the
Universitat Abat Oliba CEU in charge of incoming students
and hopes that her personal and very recent experience helps
her to understand their needs better.
Mariana has been working for the University of Applied
Sciences Hamburg (HAW Hamburg) as a Coordinator
and Advisor for international guests and degree-seeking
students for the past three years. As part of her work she
advises students in visa and financial issues, awarding
scholarships for outstanding international students and
coordinating the welcome and buddy programme.
Marieke has worked in the International Office of the
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for 13 years. The
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences consists of seven
faculties covering a broad range of disciplines, with over
45,000 students.
Nikolaj Zethner currently works as a Student Counsellor at
Dania Academy, University of Applied Sciences, which is one
of nine officially recognised regional academies of higher
education in Denmark and has campuses in eight different
Danish cities in Western Denmark. With nearly 2500 full-time
students, of which 300 are international, and a high number
of part-time students, Dania plays an important role within
education in Denmark.
Since 2012, Oksana Mladenova has worked as an Erasmus+
Coordinator and referent for international cooperation
at the International Relations Office of Sofia University
St. Kliment Ohridski. She is responsible for outgoing and
incoming students mobility from and to different European
and non-European countries. She maintains
correspondence with many foreign and country
institutions’ representatives in regard to bilateral
cooperation activities and official visits.

6. International Experience Team
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comprehensiveadviceservice.
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0114 225 3813
Name
Zsofia Duga
Raquel Oliveira
Raquel Oliveira has been an International Relations Officer
at University of Minho since the summer of 2016. Raquel
believes in the motto “once an Erasmus, always an Erasmus”
and currently uses her past experience as a mobility student
to provide all the possible support to the incoming students
at UMinho.
Zsofia Duga has been working as the Head of the Admission
and Student Service Center of the University of Pécs
Medical School since 2004. She is responsible for the
creation, development and implementation of the
marketing strategy to attract the brightest and best
students to the school. Every September they welcome 850
new undergraduates from 64 countries at their campus.

7. Time Activity
9.30am Meet at the main University entrance
9.45am Meeting each other with a fun ice breaker! –
Owen 1031
10am Welcome to Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam University –
Owen 1031
10.30am Refreshments break – Owen 1031
11am Tour of the Campus
11.30am Students’ Union – the HUBS
12pm Lunch
1.30pm Introduction to International Experience Team and GED
– Owen 1031
2pm Participant presentations – Owen 1031
3pm Refreshments break – Owen 1031
3.30pm Participant presentations (cont.) – Owen 1031
4.30pm Close
Time Activity
9.30am Sheffieldisms and slang – Owen 1031
10.30am Refreshments break – Owen 1031
11am Culture Connect – our transition mentoring scheme –
Owen 1031
12pm Lunch
1.30pm Orientation and social calendar – what we do, why we do
it and how we got there – Owen 1031
2.30pm Refreshments break – Owen 1031
3pm Accommodation and staying safe in Sheffield – Lee
Mansell, Accommodation and PC Tom Goodhill,
Universities Liaision Officer, South Yorkshire Police –
Owen 1031
4pm Tour of accommodation
5pm Close
Monday 15 May
Tuesday 16 May
Event Schedule

8. Time Activity
9.30am Specialist services:
Ian Maher, Multifaith Chaplaincy Coordinator
Darren Proctor, Executive Chef
Jess Inglis, Learning Enhancement Officer –
Multifaith Chaplaincy, level 2, Owen Building
10.30am Refreshments break – Multifaith Chaplaincy, level 2,
Owen Building
11am Study support for International Students – Owen 1031
12pm Lunch
1.30pm Student Support Services – Student Wellbeing and
Faculty Student Support – Owen 1031
2.30pm Refreshments break – Owen 1031
3pm Participant presentations – World Cafe style, what did
you learn? – Owen 1031
4.30pm Close
6pm Farewell dinner
Time Activity
9.30am Coach departs to Chatsworth House from the main
University entrance, Level 5, Owen Building
2pm Coach leaves Chatsworth House to return to Sheffield
3pm Return to Sheffield and programme closes
Wednesday 17 May
Thursday 18 May
Friday 19 May
Time Activity
9.30am Careers – Going global and ICE Club – how we recruit,
train and run the scheme – Owen 1031
10.30am Refreshments break – Owen 1031
11am Library tour – Adsetts
11.30am Walk to Collegiate Campus and Collegiate Campus tour
12.30pm Lunch – Heart of the Campus
1.30pm Cultural awareness session – HOTC 0.14
2.30pm Refreshments break – HOTC 0.14
3pm Cultural awareness session (cont.) – HOTC 0.14
4.30pm Close