International academic mobility: experiences of students at Higher Education Institutions in Colombia and Mexico

Abstract

The following article introduces the empirical results from an extension project whose objective was to identify and analyze the perceptions of 16 students from the University of Los Llanos from Colombia and the Universidad Veracruzana from México, about their experiences as participants in an international Academic Mobility Process. Starting from collected data by means of structured interviews, we could infer that the most significant aspect in their experience was their contact with another culture and, at a personal level, youngsters outstand the autonomy, the capacity of adaptation and teamwork.