3. Overall objectives
• Boost skills and employability
• Modernise education, training and youth
work
• Focus on young people
• Easier to access, with simpler funding
structure
4. 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
11. 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
12. 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
14. 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
15. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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
28. General info
• Call for Proposals and Programme guide
released in December 2013
• http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index
• 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
29. 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.
30. •
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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
Brief introduction on the new programme.
Main focus of this presentation will be on Key Action 1 mobility projects for Higher education students and staff.
Will also go through the application form at the end.
Currently 26 million unemployed throughout Europe and over two million job vacancies.
During the negotiations of the new programme all member states agreed the importance of this.
Focus on monitoring
Easier to access e.g one programme guide for the whole programmes, easy for potential participants to identify opportunities.
Majority grants paid according to unit costs (flat rates)
Replaces and builds on current programmes that are available in the Lifelong learning programme.
Diagram showing the structure of the new programme.
There is a close link between the new programme and EU policy:
Europe 2020 targets - 20% of all graduates to have complete a study period or training period abroad by 2020. 2 million more students to undertake a mobility by 2020. It took 26 years to reach the first 3 million projected only 7 years to reach the next 2 million.
The majority has been allocated to Education and training at 77.5%
Questions so far?
Questions so far?
Many of the activites are managed centrally by the Commission.
Under comenius for example applications from individuals were allowed. Now only from organisation. For those who have worked on the Erasmus programme under LLP this won’t be any different.
For an institution to participate and make an application the following is required:
ECHE mandatory for all HEIs participating in the project, applicant HEI’s and including HEIs receiving students on traineeships and staff on training.
The role of the applicant organisation…
The role of the applicant organisation…
Questions so far?
Students at all levels of Higher education can participate
Recent graduates can now participate -they must apply in their final year and undertake and complete the traineeship within one year after graduation.
Activities to be undertaken must have been agreed in a learning agreement prior to the start of the mobility.
To ensure high quality activities that have maximum impact on students the mobility has to be part of the student’s study programme or in the case of a traineeship it should be and intergrated part of the study programme
Students at all levels of Higher education can participate
Recent graduates can now participate -they must apply in their final year and undertake and complete the traineeship within one year after graduation.
Activities to be undertaken must have been agreed in a learning agreement prior to the start of the mobility.
To ensure high quality activities that have maximum impact on students the mobility has to be part of the student’s study programme or in the case of a traineeship it should be and intergrated part of the study programme
Monthly grant two different groups for UK students.
Countries with higher living costs, medium living costs, and lower living costs.
NA will adivse on grant amounts when application forms are available.
Grants are set by EC therefore no PC grant
The monthly grant is the same as for study except students receive an extra.
What to remember - WP is for study only as students on traineeships will receive the top-up for traineeships. No PC grant.
Multilingualism is one of the goals of the new programme and by signing the ECHE you have commited to providing nescessary support to mobile participants in terms of linguistinc preparation.
To help with this the ec have…
EC want to capture improvement after mobility period hence mandatory assessment prior to start of mobility and upon return.
Questions so far?
Unit costs = flat rates
Distance calculator will be provided by the EC. Staff can no longer receive subs for travel days i.e if additional to the days when teaching/ training commences /ends/
See grant rates on pages 45 (travel) and 46 (subs) of programme guide. We have used 100% of these rates
Previously known as OM (organisation of mobility funding)
List of possible uses on page 41 of the programme guide.