Outbound Staff Mobility a.k.a OSM is a program specially designed for ITS non-academic staffs to broaden their experience abroad, get international exposure, strengthen relations with other staff(s) in partner universities and institution in ASEAN. It is first initiated in 2013.

This program has mainly 3 objectives, which are:

Non-academic staffs who are willing to join this program should pass several selection project, which mainly:

During the upgrading/workshop, participants are actively involved in class activities to improve their global competences such as communication in English, building and managing professional networking, business letter, updated knowledge about ITS, etc. So that, they could be ITS delegates which represent ITS and their unit/department during the internship period in partner universities.

Over the years, the number of non-academic staffs who are interested in joining and doing internship through this program has been increasing (as shown in the graph below). The designated partner universities have also become diverse, not only in Thailand but also in Malaysia.

Participants joined this program are also assessed during the internship period by their supervisors in every host university. They showed great performance during the program, despite their diverse background and broad range of age as shown in the graph below.

This proves that ITS non-academic staffs could also have the same opportunities to develop and go global as ITS academic staffs. Such program is good to be maintained to give new insight for staffs who stand at the front line of the campus services.