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News

	PAST AND FUTURE OF THE ERASMUS PROGRAMME
	The Swiss National Agency, ch Foundation, published the figures concerning the Erasmus programme in Switzerland for the year 2012/2013 and the scheme of grants for the SEMP (Swiss-European Mobility Programme) mobility programme for the academic year 2014/2015.
	PHOTO CONTEST
	On May 22, we celebrated the winners of the photo contest and we also took the chance to offer a farewell apero to our incoming students who are about to finish their mobility period at USI
	DOUBLE INTERVIEW
	Enjoy the double interview of Marina Markou and Cristina Spinedi. Marina, from the University of Ioannina, Greece, spent a one-week training with the colleagues at the Faculty of Informatics and got involved in the many daily activities. Let’s find out from them about how this experience has enriched them.
	SWISS GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
	USI will host three foreign scholars through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS). These scholarships are offered to postgraduate researchers wishing to undertake a doctoral or postdoctoral research, fostering academic mobility and enabling interaction with the scholars’ Swiss counterparts.
	DISCOVER TICINO
	The place to discover we wish to suggest in the current issue is the Muggio Valley, the southernmost valley of the Canton and of Switzerland. The preservation and the promotion of the region are the main aim of the Association of the Ethnographic Museum Valle di Muggio, whose efforts have recently been awarded with the prestigious Swiss Landscape Award 2014.

Why this newsletter

“Come and go” is the International Relations and Study-abroad newsletter which aims at keeping our readers up-to-date on the latest news and events related to our activities. It is published 4 times per year and reaches approx. 4’000 readers, in particular USI students, faculty and staff, incoming students and staff from our many partner universities and other collaborators. We do hope you will enjoy reading it!