Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility

for Slovenian HEIs

Adrian Veale

European Commission

Directorate-General for Education & Culture

Erasmus+ Programme Countries

Erasmus+ Partner Countries

Jean Monnet 281

Internationalstaff & student

"credit" mobility 761

Capacity Building for

Higher Education 810

Erasmus Mundus Joint MA Degrees

1,000

Erasmus+ 2014-2020 budget for international actions (EUR million)

What is ICM?

ICM in brief

Short-term higher education mobility

For students and PhD candidates (3-12 months) & staff (5-60 days)

All levels: BA, MA, PhD, academic & administrative staff

Generous grant… and no tuition fees!

A global action

ICM in numbers

28.109

33.927

2015 2016

Mobilities funded so far: 62,000 and counting...!

How does ICM work?

Decentralised management

Decentralised management

Programme Country HEI

Ring-fenced budgets per NA

PL7% UK

8%

IT10%

ES10%

FR10%DE

13%

All 27 other Programme Countries

42%

Rules and restrictions

Priority countries

What's new in 2017

Tunisia WindowEUR 3 million

~750 mobilities

Iran, Iraq, YemenEUR 2.5 million~600 mobilities

One application deadline: 2 February 2017… no second round!

Slovenian ICM in 2015-2016

Adjusting demand 2015 2016

Applications and selections, 2016

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2

4

6

8

10

12

14

Applications # Unique Selected Subprojects

2016 selected projectsRegion Countries

ACP Burkina Faso, Dominican Rep, Fiji, Ghana, Jamaica, Niger

Asia Afghanistan, China, india,

C. Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

E. Partn. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine

Ind. Amer. US, Canada

Ind. Asia Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, S Korea, New Zealand

L. America Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico

Russia Russia

South Med Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco,

W. Balkans Albania, Bosnia-Herz., Kosovo, Serbia

2016 selected projects

2016 selected beneficiaries Budget Mobtot

IntoSI

Out of IS

UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI428.980 301 81 47

UNIVERZA V MARIBORU299.001 132 73 34

UNIVERZA NA PRIMORSKEM UNIVERSITA DEL LITORALE

241.561 98 45 39

UNIVERZA V NOVI GORICI77.846 52 16 6

MEDNARODNA FAKULTETA ZA DRUZBENE IN POSLOVNE STUDIJE ZAVOD

33.450 20 9 11

Ekonomska sola Celje17.980 12 4 8

B2 Visoka sola za poslovne vede, zavod

12.850 7 5 2

TOTAL 1.111.668 622 233 147

Applying

Programme Country HEI

Organisational support

EUR 350/participant up to first 100 participants, then EUR 200/participant

Individual support

EUR 650-850/month for students andEUR 100-160/day for staff

Contribution to travel costs

EUR 180-1100, depending on distancetravelled

Programme Country HEI

Partner Country HEI

Programme Country HEI

Partner Country HEI

Participant

Your approach

• Target envelopes with bigger budgets

• Go for less usual suspects

• Newcomers, think about starting with staff mobility

• 26-month contracts recommended

• Fit the application to the award criteria

Erasmus+

Application form: qualitative assessment

Relevance: why?• Why mobility

• Why this region?

• Why relevant for you and for your partners

• Why students, why staff?Go for less usualsuspects

• Explain complementarity, new cooperation

• Fit the application to the award criteria

Quality of cooperation• How is the work divided?

• How are the finances shared?

• How will you communicate?

• Are you both up to the job?

• How does your experience count?

Quality of project• Before, during, after

• = Selection, support, recognition

• Additional support

• Planning and timelines

Impact and dissemination• Impact on different stakeholders

• Local, regional, national impact

• Home and baroad

• Measure success, disseminate results…

• …to whom?

• Impact in the right context

Resources for applicants• Dos and donts

• Guidelines for experts on quality assessment

Cooperation challenges

• Payment management

• Is it enough?

• Candidate selection

• Courses included in your offer

• Visas

• Recognition

Erasmus+

Before the start of the actual mobility

Participants

PartnerCountry HEI

Programme Country HEI

National Agency

Application Phase Contractualisation Phase Implementation & Reporting Phase

EuropeanCommission

Participant Report

Online EU Survey

Reporting in Mobility

Tool+

ECHE

Before the start of the actual mobility

International Credit Mobility Timeline for Contractual Documents

Learning/ Mobility

Agreement

3 parties

+

Grant Agreement

Programme HEI-Participant

PIC

Students: 30 days before the end of the mobility

Staff: After the end of the mobility

Delegation Agreement

Grant Agreement

Application Form

2 February 2016

Inter-institutional Agreement

Start of the mobility projects

(1 June)

PIC

Qualitative Assessment

Before encoding mobilities in Mobility

Tool+

Student Survey on

Recognition

Reporting to National

Agency

Interim report & final

beneficiary report

Every month, once mobilities have started

After the end of the mobility

Programme Guide 2017

Quick Reference

Guide for Partner

Country HEIs

FAQs for

students &

staff

'Do's and don'ts'

for applicants

Guidelines

FAQs for

HEIs

Resources for applicants• Dos and donts

• Guidelines for experts on quality assessment