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Key Action 1 – Higher education student and staff mobility
Rebecca Rogers
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
Overall budget breakdown
Education and training breakdown
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)
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 • Managing Inter-institutional agreements for
student study and staff teaching• Reporting to the National Agency
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 fundingMonthly 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
•Widening participation (study only)•Top-up for traineeships
Student mobility funding
Monthly grant - traineeships
• Group 2 and 3 countries - €450* per month• Group 1 countries - €500* 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
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 fundingTravel (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
General info
• Call for Proposals and Programme guide released in December 2013
• http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm
• Application forms are now available : http://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/
ECAS and PICs
• 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.
Find out more• 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 and
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 [email protected]
• Erasmus Helpdesk
• 02920 924311 [email protected]