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Erasmus+A guide to European

Union opportunities

in education, training,

youth and sport

Changing lives, opening minds

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Luxembourg: Publications Offi ce of the European Union, 2014

2014 48 pp. 14.8 x 21 cm

ISBN 978-92-79-30966-3

doi:10.2766/46152

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Through Erasmus+ the Europeansupports a wide range of activitie

fields of education, training, you

sport. This brochure highlights th

opportunities available and explayou can find out more.

There may be opportunities for yo

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ContentsIntroduction

Erasmus+ support for the learning mobility

of individuals (Key Action 1)

Learner mobility

Staff and youth worker mobility

Erasmus+ support for cooperation for innovation

and the exchange of good practices (Key Action 2

Strategic Partnerships

Large scale cooperation projects

Online tools for schools and adult education

Erasmus+ support for policy reform of education,

training and youth (Key Action 3)

Prospective Initiatives

Civil society cooperation

Structured Dialogue

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IntroductionThe EU is investing 14.7 billion in Erasmus+, the neweducation, training, youth and sport for 2014-2020.

Erasmus+ is a unique programme which seeks to boost

and personal development of young people, as w

education, training and youth systems deliver teachinggives people the skills they need in todays labour mark

well as in the future.

If you are interested in EU funding for education, trainin

then this brochure is for you.

The following pages provide essential information

opportunities available in these fields. More detaile

available in the Programme Guide for applicants.

An integrated programme

Erasmus+ has 3 Key Actions:

Key Action 1: Learning mobility opportunities for scandidates, trainees, young volunteers and youngst

well as teachers, trainers, lecturers and youth worker

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Opportunities for all

Erasmus+ provides opportunities for: Higher education and vocational students to study, t

gain work experience abroad (including mobility to a

Europe in higher education).

Young people to take part in transnational youth exand volunteering (including to and from Europe).

Teachers, trainers, lecturers, administrators and

workers to teach, train and gain new professional pers

abroad, or to share experience (including mobilityfrom Europe in higher education).

Education, training and youth institutions/organisa

exchange good practice in order to innovate and mo

Collaborative initiatives between higher education ins

and enterprises to strengthen the entrepreneurial p

of both staff and students, as well as to help organ

b d h d f h l b k

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Languages for people on the move

The better your language skills, the more you will btime abroad. Practicing different languages is an imp

most mobility actions. If youre a university student, v

member staying abroad for at least two months, or a v

b d f l h ff

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The winners of the 2013 main prize were Henning Larsen Arch

Eliasson and Batteri Architects for Harpa, the concert h

centre in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Emerging Architect Specwent to Mara Langarita and Vctor Navarro for the Nave de

(Red Bull Music Academy) in Madrid, Spain.

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Erasmus+ support the learning mobil

individuals (Key AcErasmus+ supports a variety of mobility learners and staff in education, training and

and organisations.

For learners, the aims of these opportunitieslearning performance, enhancing their

improving career prospects, as well as enhan

development and participation in society.

For staff, the aims include improving competheir capacity to trigger modernisation in th

youth organisations, and broadening their

practices, policies and systems.

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Learner mobility

Students in higher education

Study periods:Students can spend from 3 to 12 months s

at a university or college in another country.

Traineeships: Alternatively, you can do a traineeshworkplace abroad lasting from 2 to 12 months.

The study or traineeship can be in any field or a

discipline at Bachelor, Master or Doctoral level. It is also

to combine a traineeship with a study period abroad.

Recent higher education graduates can also do a tra

abroad within one year of graduation. But plan ahead! Y

to be selected by your university or college during your

of study.

Erasmus+ also supports some European students to stu

rest of the world and students from elsewhere in the w

study in Europe.

Who is it for?

Students or doctoral candidates wanting to study

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Studying at another university helped me bro

scope in my field of study more than ever befthe best part of the experience was meeting

people who I am sure to work with in the futu

Robert (UK) on studying industrial design for te

at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlan

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Masters student loansErasmus+ supports new, low cost loans to help M

to study in other European countries, with favou

conditions.

Students are able to apply for a loan for a full Masterand can borrow up to 12,000 for a one year course

for a two year course.

The loans are provided by selected financial in

Programme Countries.

Joint Masters degrees

Erasmus+ offers Masters students worldwide th

scholarship to follow joint, high-level international strun by university partnerships. The Joint Masters pro

a degree issued jointly by some or all of the participat

Tip!Joint Doctoral programmes are supported by the Ma

Curie Actions under the Horizon 2020 Research progr

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How to find out more?http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus

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Mobility in vocational education atraining (VET)

Mobility abroad can help young people in vocationatraining to gain the skills needed for todays competit

market.

Upper secondary students in vocational training sc

and apprentices may complete a traineeship or apprenhosted in a company, a workplace (e.g. NGO, public

vocational school, with a period of work-based learnin

Traineeships may last from two weeks to one year.

Also, recent graduates of a VET school or compaapprentices) may participate in a mobility activity. R

must undertake their traineeship abroad within

qualifying.

My mobility experience has definitely helped

further my career. Without it, I wouldnt have

the confidence to apply for the Young Chef of

Year competition never mind winning it Id h

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Youth mobility

Youth Exchanges help young people acquire imp

skills such as project management and teamworkopportunities outside the school environment enable

of young people to undertake a structured program

activities (e.g. a mix of workshops, exercises, debates a

plays) in another country within or outside the EU for u

days.

The European Voluntary Serviceoffers an ideal oppo

for young people to develop skills by contributing to th

work of organisations in areas such as social care, enviro

non-formal education programmes, ICT, culture andothers. Its also a chance for them to grow in self-confi

feel more actively engaged as citizens and experience a

way of life. A volunteering activity can last up to one ye

participants can volunteer to support all kinds of causes

within or outside the European Union.

Youth Exchanges are open to young people aged be

13 and 30. The European Voluntary Service is open to

people aged between 17 and 30.

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How to find out more?

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Staff and youth worker

mobilityIf you are a teacher or you work in an enterprise, you at an institution abroad, gaining new professional pers

widening your networks and helping to moder

internationalise Europes education and training system

Teachers, non-teaching staff or youth workers can a

training abroad, including structured courses, profe

focused language training, training events and job-sh

to develop new knowledge and ideas that you can

practice when you get home.

These activities can last from two days to two months.


http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus

How to apply?

If you are interested in applying you should approach th

educational institution/organisation or youth organisat

are working for. Enterprise staff must be invited by the education institution where they intend to teach.

Who is it for?

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If you are interested in connecting and networking w

teachers or adult educators online, then eTwinning (for s

EPALE (for adult educators) might also be something to l

30 in this brochure.

If you are working in the field of European integration level, the Jean Monnet action may be of interest to you.

brochure.

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Erasmus+ supportfor cooperation fo

innovation and theexchange of goodpractices (Key ActErasmus+ supports partnership projects

institutions, companies and research organis

of education, training or youth.

These projects encourage collaboration acsectors, within and across the fields of e

youth and with the world of work. Their aims

and modernising practices, strengthening

transferring knowledge at organisational, loca

and European levels. In the area of higher edcover capacity-building projects that bring

education institutions from programme and p

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Strategic Partnerships

Within and across the education, tryouth fields and with the world of w

Strategic Partnerships seek to develop, transfer

innovative education, training and youth practices thro

cooperation among organisations of different kinds.

To achieve these aims, Erasmus+ supports organisations

of education, training and youth from different count

supported can involve organisations from different eco

sectors working together through partnerships with eauthorities and civil society organisations.

Strategic Partnerships may vary considerably in scale, r

simple cooperation projects between small scale org

as schools or informal groups of young people) to lar

focusing on the development and exchange of innovat

education, training and youth fields.

They may address a specific field, but they also s

cooperation across the education, training and youth fi

links with the world of work.

The kinds of activities (non-exhaustive) which can be su

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Exchange of good practices and innovation for supp

as guidance, counselling and coaching methods.

Validation of competences acquired through non-fo

learning at national level by referencing them to EU f

using EU documentation instruments.

Structured and long-term cooperation among institustakeholders (e.g. private enterprises, social partners

authorities, NGOs).

Transnational initiatives fostering entrepreneurial mi

to encourage active citizenship and new social enter

Strategic Partnerships may also organise mobility activiti

staff if they support/complement the other activities o

and bring added value to achieving the projects obje

mobility is not the main activity of a Strategic Partnersh

Strategic Partnerships can last for two or three years in t

education, VET, adult education and school education.

they can last from six months to two years. They mus

three organisations in three different programme cou

exceptions in the fields of youth and school education.


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Large scale cooperation pr

Knowledge Alliances: Cooperation bhigher education institutions and en

The involvement of enterprises is a way of improvin

relevance of higher education programmes in line with

realities of the labour market.

To this end, Erasmus+ funds Knowledge Alliances, whi

partnerships that help bridge the gap between the w

and the world of work in order to stimulate innovatio

education and enterprise.

Knowledge Alliances also help to equip people (stude

company staff) with more entrepreneurial skills and m

higher education institutions and enterprises more en

innovative, with all that this entails for the socio-econo

in which they operate.

They must involve a minimum of six organisations fro

different programme countries, of which at least tw

partners and two are academic partners.

Knowledge Alliances can support activities (non-exhau

Developing and implementing new learning and teac

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Creating structures for the learning of transversal ski

application throughout higher education programm

be developed in cooperation with enterprises, thereemployability, creativity and new professional pathw

Introducing entrepreneurship education into any dis

students, researchers, staff and educators with the k

and motivation to engage in entrepreneurial activitie

of sectors.

Opening up new learning opportunities through the

application of entrepreneurial skills, which can involv

the commercialisation of new services, products and

Knowledge Alliances can also organise mobility activi

researchers and staff if they support/complement the o

are in line with the objectives of the project. However,

main activity of a Knowledge Alliance.

Who is it for?

Knowledge Alliances are open to:

Higher education institutions

Public private small medium

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Sector Skills Alliances: CooperationVET providers and the world of wor

Sector Skills Alliances are cross-border projects focused o

European challenges related to the skills workers need fo

in different sectors.

They must involve at least nine different organisations fro

programme countries, including two Member States.

Sector Skills Alliances may support activities (non-exhau

Defining skills and training provision needs in a

economic sector (e.g. gathering and interpreting ev

needs on the labour market in a given economic secto

Designing EU sector-specific curricula, VET pro

integrating innovative approaches to teaching and le

through more strategic and integrated use of IC

Educational Resources. Opportunities to apply knowleprojects/real life workplace situations should also be

with the chance to develop entrepreneurial mindsets.

Sector Skills Alliances may also organise mobility activit

and staff if they support/complement the other activitiesand bring added value to achieving the projects object

mobility is not the main activity of Sector Skills Alliances.

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Capacity-building in higher educatCooperation with higher educationinstitutions in partner countries

Erasmus+ supports cooperation between higher educ

from programme countries and their counterparts a

Partner institutions can be chosen in EU Neighbourhood

the Western Balkans and Russia, as well as regions in Aand Africa/Caribbean/Pacific (ACP) countries.

Projects should be aimed at the development and

higher education institutions and systems in the part

improve the level of competence and skills. They coeducation systems by involving education policy-mak

regional level.

Examples of projects could include:

Joint projects developing new curricula and degrees

teaching methodologies, staff development, quality

governance and management structures and proces

Projects for developing structural reforms at nationa

support of authorities in partner countries (e.g. polic

governance and management of higher education sy

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Online tools for schools

adult educationeTwinningeTwinning supports and reinforces cooperation b

schools by providing support, useful tools and a place

together online. eTwinning can be used to support projects, Strategic Partnerships, or to collaborate onlin

In addition, eTwinning contributes to the prof

development of teachers and staff by offering online

materials and networking opportunities throughout Eu

All schools and pre-schools in the programme count

welcome to use eTwinning at any time by registering

eTwinning portal: www.etwinning.net

EPALE (Electronic Platform for Adu

Learning in Europe)

EPALE is an online space to exchange, showca

disseminate methods of good practice in adult educ

creates communities of adult education staff across t

The platform will be available by the end of 2014.
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Erasmus+ support for po

reform (Prospective InitiErasmus+ provides funding opportunities for strategic

improvements in education and training systems an

aimed at major stakeholders and public authorities.

Forward-looking cooperation pro

Forward-looking cooperation projects are partnershi

stakeholders with state-of-the-art knowledge, to e

approaches for reforming or modernising systems fields of education, training and youth.

They can provide valuable input to policy-makers b

results among stakeholders and through stakeholde

European policy experimentation

European policy experimentations are field trials

public authorities in the fields of education, traini

assess the effectiveness and scalability of innovative

rigorous evaluation methods.


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Who is it for?

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Erasmus+ support for

policy reform (civil societcooperation)Erasmus+ provides funding opportunities for coope

society organisations in the fields of education, traini

raise awareness among stakeholders of European p

these areas and elicit their active commitment.

Civil society cooperation

Erasmus+ supports organisations to secure the active

stakeholders in the implementation of policy reform

countries, for promoting their participation in Eras

European programmes, and for disseminating policy

results and good practice through their extensi

networks.

How to find out more?http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus

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Who is it for?

European non-governmental organisatio

of education, training and youth)

EU-wide networks (in the fields of educat

and youth)

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Erasmus+ support for pol

reform (Structured DialogErasmus+ provides funding opportunities for Struc

between young people and decision-makers in the fi

Structured DialogueStructured Dialogue promotes the active participa

people in democratic life and encourages debates t

on the themes and priorities set by the Structured D

EU Youth Strategy.

Projects can take the form of meetings, conferences,

and events. Activities that can be supported include:

National meetings, transnational seminars and eve

space for information and debate with youth decistopics relevant to the EU Youth Strategy.

Structured Dialogue linked to the activities organis

European Youth Week.

Consultations with young people to find out their matters relating to participation in democratic life.

Events simulating the functioning of democratic in

the roles of decision-makers

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Support for sport

Erasmus+ supports transnational partnerships between spfederations and governing bodies to promote sport and

especially at grassroots level. It addresses major chal

sector including doping, match-fixing, racism and gend

programme can also assist bodies to help develop dual ca

and to support the implementation of EU guidelines on physical activity.

Examples of activities include:

Networking among key stakeholders.

Sharing of know-how and good practice.

Development of guidelines, recommendations, code

other policy documents.

Cooperation on the development and implementatio

educational modules.

Who is it for?

Public bodies in charge of sport at local, regional or n

Sport clubs, organisations or unions representing ath

Organisations promoting physical activity

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Not-for-profit European sport eve

Erasmus+ grants are available to organisations to help

profit sporting events involving several participating

Examples of activities supported include:

Organisation of training activities for athletes, coac

organisers and volunteers in the run-up to the eve

Organisation of the event.

Organisation of side activities to the sport event (e

conferences, seminars).

Implementation of legacy activities (e.g. evaluation

future plans).



How to apply?

Applications should be submitted to the Education, A

Culture Executive Agency (EACEA):

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Who is it for?

Higher education institutions in the EU or an

Participating countries

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Participating countries

Programme countries

Programme countries are those which can participate f

opportunities. They include all EU Member States, as w

countries if they have fulfilled the necessary co

Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and the

Republic of Macedonia.

Partner countriesAll other countries of the world are partner countries an

some parts of the programme, as explained in the relev

Programme Guide.

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