Senior Architecture Students Going to ETSAB to Spend One Semester Abroad
Three senior students from the Architecture and Urban Design program (ARUD) at Nile University went to ETSAB - Barcelona.
School of Architecture in Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC - to spend one semester as visiting students. ETSAB, which ranks number 4 in Europe, was a main partner that helped develop the ARUD program over the past 5 years. ARUD students also got partial sponsorship from Sabbour Foundation to make it all happen.
Four other ARUD students are joining the Slovak University of Technology (STU) in Bratislava as part of a fully funded Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) agreement, studying spatial planning courses.
Their study in STU is within an extended collaboration between NU and STU, namely, with the Spectra Center of Excellence, which EVENTS specializes in interdisciplinary research of complex spatial development issues. ARUD students will gain experience working with other students from different nationalities who got accepted in the Erasmus+ (IC) students mobility to exchange knowledge, and culture.
The students will be attending courses at ETSAB and STU as well as at NU simultaneously and will choose their graduation project sites in Barcelona and Bratislava.
The experience has proven to benefit ARUD students in many ways; through their exposure to reputable educational institutions, learning how to integrate in a different work environment, not to mention through their experience in Europe itself. Incorporating a study abroad opportunity into the EAS School is a growing front at NU.