Key Action 1 –
Higher education
student and staff
mobility
Rebecca Rogers
The new EU
programme
for education,
training,
youth and
sport
Overall objectives
• Boost skills and employability
• Modernise education, training and youth
work
• Focus on young people
• Easier to access, with simpler funding
structure
Key facts
• Cross-sectoral structure based on ‘Key
Actions’
• Worth €940m to UK over seven years
• Replaces Lifelong Learning Programme,
Youth in Action and other EU programmes
Erasmus+ is
‘the new EU
programme for
education,
training, youth
and sport’
European policy context
EU Youth
Strategy
(2009)
European
Structural &
Investment
Funds
(2014)
Rethinking
Education
(2012)
Developing
European
Dimensions
in Sport
(2011)
EU2020
(2009)
ET2020
(2012)
Overall budget breakdown
Education and training breakdown
Questions?
Key Actions
Key Actions
• Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals
• Key Action 2: Co-operation for Innovation
and Exchange of Good Practices
• Key Action 3: Support for Policy Reform
• Some activities managed centrally, ie not by
National Agencies
• Organisation, not individual applications
• No funding for preparatory visits
Key Action 1 - Which actions are
supported?
• Mobility projects in the field of education
training and youth.
• Large scale EVS events
• Joint Masters Degrees
• Master Student Loan Guarantee
Mobility Projects for Higher
Education Students and
Staff
General eligibility criteria for an
applicant organisation
• Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE)
• Participant Identification Code (PIC)
• Grant Application deadline 17 March (midday
Brussels time)
• Inter-institutional agreements for student study
and staff teaching
• Learning agreements / mobility agreements
What is the role of the applicant
organisation?
• Follow the ‘quality framework’ as set out in the
ECHE
• Applying for the mobility project
• Signing and managing the grant agreement
• Reporting to the National Agency
Questions?
Student mobility
• Study period abroad at a partner HEI
• Traineeship abroad in an enterprise
Student mobility eligibility criteria
• Students at all levels of higher education
• Recent graduates (traineeships only)
• 12 months per study cycle (includes participation
in LLP)
• From 3 to 12 months for studies
• From 2 to 12 months for traineeships
Student mobility eligibility criteria
• Learning Agreement
• Recognition
• For study students must be in their second year of
study or higher
• For traineeships students are eligible from the first
year of study
Student mobility funding
Monthly grant – study (page 43)
• Group 1 countries - €400 per month
• Group 2 and 3 countries - €350 per month
• Students from disadvantaged backgrounds (WP) €100 per month supplementary grant
Student mobility funding
Monthly grant - traineeships
• Group 1 countries - €500* per month
• Group 2 and 3 countries - €450* per month
* Includes a monthly top-up of €100
Linguistic support
• Online courses through EC tool
• Mandatory assessment prior to mobility and upon
return
• Voluntary courses
• Available in the 5 main languages – EN, DE, FR,
ES, IT
• Funding for other languages from organisational
support budget
Questions?
Staff mobility
• Teaching period at a partner HEI
• Training period e.g training events (excluding
conferences), job shadowing
• 2 days to 2 months (excluding travel days)
• Minimum 8 teaching hours per week.
Staff mobility funding
Travel (page 45)
• Unit costs (flat rates) - Paid according to distance
travelled.
• Distance calculator will be provided by EC
Subsistence (page 46)
• Unit costs – dependant on receiving country
• Travel days are not eligible for subsistence
payments.
Organisational support grant for HEIs
(page 41)
• A contribution to any cost incurred by the HEI in
relation to activities in support of student and staff
mobility
• Up to 100th participant - €350 per participant
• Beyond 100th participant - €200 per participant
• Higher than LLP to accommodate for preparatory
visits and linguistic preparation
Questions?
General info
• Call for Proposals and Programme guide
released in December 2013
• http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmusplus/index_en.htm
• Applications not yet open but pdf forms available
on above pages so that organisations can
familiarise themselves
• Applications will be online – expected to open at
end of January
ECAS and PICs
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Before being able to apply for Erasmus+ funding organisations online
http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/how-to-apply
Register your organisation on the European Commission Authentication
Service (ECAS), if not already registered. For guidance on registration, see
our How to Register on ECAS video and guide
Log in to the Participant Portal with your ECAS account details and register
your organisation on the Unique Registration Facility (URF) to obtain your
unique Participant Identification Code (PIC), if not already registered. The
European Commission has produced a Participant Portal User Manual to
help guide you through the process of registering on the portal.
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Lots of information including Call for Proposals and Programme Guide on EC site
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm
EC twitter and Facebook:
https://twitter.com/EUErasmusPlus
https://www.facebook.com/EUErasmusPlusProgramme
All key information being added to UK website, www.erasmusplus.org.uk (UK
website) – this is the best way of getting information about the programme
#erasmusplusuk – BC/Ecorys hashtag
British Council Customer Services
0161 957 7755 general.enquiries@britishcouncil.org
Erasmus Helpdesk
02920 924311 erasmus@britishcouncil.org
Questions?