The International Mobility programs benefit both students and recent alumni, allowing them to study and receive practical training throughout Europe. These programs give an added value to your education, helping to improve your professional future, and therefore your personal development.

The Erasmus+ program took effect January 1, 2014.

Erasmus+ integrates all of the existing programs under the Permanent Learning Program: Comenius, Grundtvig, Erasmus and Leonardo, as well as the International Higher Education programs and the Youth in Action Program.

Broadly speaking, the Erasmus mobility programs currently offered are divided into Erasmus+ for practical training y Erasmus for academic purposes.

The Erasmus+ Practical Training Program offers students and alumni in their first year after graduation an internship with a participating foreign business or organization, with the goal of preparing for the demands of the European labor market, acquiring specific skills, and improving understanding of the economic and social environment of the country in question, while gaining work experience at the same time.

These internships may be accompanied, when necessary, by preparatory or continuing language courses.

The host organizations for internships may be businesses, educative centers, research centers, or other organizations. The internships must be covered by an internship agreement approved by the intern's higher education institution, the consortium of origin (if applicable), the host institution, and the intern.

Essential characteristics of the internships are:

• The higher education institution of origin must give full credit for the internship.
• The student must receive an agreement of instruction for the internship program; this agreement must be approved by both the institution of origin and the host organization.

The process of internationalization that the University of A Coruña has been undergoing for years, along with the growth of activities in this area and the changes resulting from the reform of university studies, justify the need to develop regulations applicable to international student exchange programs. This aims to update the existing regulations and adapt them to the international mobility programs developed by the UDC.

Therefore, the UDC must facilitate students' ability to complete part of their studies leading to an official degree at a foreign higher education institution and guarantee, through the updated regulations, the full recognition of these studies for academic purposes.

This regulation reflects the desire to enhance international mobility by creating a regulatory framework that guarantees the rights and duties of students, and that streamlines collaboration and organizes coordination between the parties, given the involvement of multiple agents in the administrative process of mobility: students, faculty, the vice-rectorate responsible for international relations and its staff, the members of the management teams of the centers responsible for international relations and the administrative staff of the centers.