ERASMUS+ at a glance

Orientation Session
 Table of contents
1. An overview of the programme
2. Programme Specifications and resources
3. Practical opportunities and information

2020 Call for proposals

Programme Guide 2020

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/resources/documents/erasmus-programme-guide-2020_en
6 Commission priorities for 2019-24
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024_en

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European Funding Programmes
Characteristics
European Dimension

Competitive

Transnational Cooperation

Support of projects or organisations which further the

interests of the EU or contribute to the implementation of an
EU programme or policy

Non profit character

 Information how to get started

Am I eligible for this programme?

Does my idea fit in one of the eligible actions?

What is the timeframe?

What kind of funding can I receive?

Who are the partners of the consortium?

 An overview of the EU funding programmes
 HORIZON 2020
 ERASMUS+
 COSME
 3RD HEALTH PROGRAMME
 CREATIVE EUROPE
 ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION FUND
 RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND CITIZENSHIP
 JUSTICE
COSME

ERASMUS+ Programme 2014-2020

 The EU's programme to support education, training youth &

sport
 Funding for programmes, projects & scholarships
 Fosters EU-EU & EU-international cooperation

The budget for the programme is EUR 14,7 billion over the
period 2014-2020.

EUR 3,2+ billion for the year 2020

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ERASMUS+ 2014-2020
Programme Objectives

ERASMUS+ Objectives

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16 BILLIONS OF EURO
The focus of the programme
▪ The Erasmus+ programme aims to boost skills and employability, as well as
modernizing Education, Training, and Youth work.
▪ Erasmus+ will support transnational partnerships among Education, Training,
and Youth institutions and organizations to foster cooperation and bridge
the worlds of Education and work in order to tackle the skills gaps we are
facing in Europe.
▪ Among others, ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND SKILLS is one of the
key topics of the programme
 Overview of the Programme
3 key actions
Key action 2:
Key action 1: Cooperation for Key action 3:
Learning Mobility of innovation and the
Individuals exchange of good Support for policy reform
practices
• Supports mobility in the • Make it possible for • Provides grants for a
education, training and organizations from wide variety of actions
youth sectors and aims different participating aimed at stimulating
to bring long lasting countries to work innovative policy
benefits to the together, to DEVELOP, development, policy
participants and the SHARE AND dialogue and
organizations involved. TRANSFER BEST implementation, and
PRACTICES AND the exchange of
INNOVATIVE knowledge in the fields
APPROACHES in the of education, training
fields of education, and youth. The majority
training and youth of them are managed
by the EACEA.
KA2 Strategic partnership in the filed of School Education, VET,
Adult learning and Higher education
What a Strategic Partnership is
meant for? Sharing, Networking
and Developing
• Innovative
educational methods
• Design of training
path
• Development
&Transfer of
innovative practices
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 Which type of opportunities are available to fund outputs?

Development of
training modules Guidelines OPPORTUNITIES FOR:
Learning platforms
aligned to skills
online and offline Guidebooks  Innovative methods,
forecast and
mismatch  Curricula,
 Training and ICT
methodologies,
 Networking
ICT based
technologies oriented Strategic planning of  Best practices for
to education sector professional exchange and
development transfer/export.
Digital Learning

The project can last from 2 to 3 years

Budget: 150.000€ per year funded in unit costs or flat rate covering management, partnership meetings,
intellectual outputs (staff costs), multiplier event and exceptional expsense/subcontracts.
Minimum n. of partners: 3 from different EU countries – Good balance of the consortium 6-7 Partners
 Programme fields and resources KA2-SP

4 different fields of interest

• It aims to improve the quality and efficiency of school education
School Education level, allowing both students and school’s staff to acquire
fundamental skills

• It aims to improve vocational education sector and the

Vocational Education and attainement of professional skills and competences of
individuals; strengthen the quality of teaching and learning;
Training promote the modernization and internationalization of education
and training institutions .

• Promote the modernization and internationalization of Higher

Higher Education Education Institutions. Improve the skills of staff of Higher
Education and strengthen the quality of teaching and learning

• The field of Education of adults is aimed not to vocational

Adult Education education in the broadest sense of the term (formal , non-formal
, informal).
RESPECT THE PRIORITIES
 School Education’s
Priorities
Strengthening the profile(s)
of the teaching professions,
including teachers, school
leaders and teacher
educators
Promoting the acquisition of
skills and competences
Supporting schools to tackle
early school leaving (ESL)
and disadvantage and to
offer quality education
Supporting efforts to
increase access to
affordable and high quality
early childhood education
and care (ECEC)
Through actions with the following objectives:
making careers more attractive; strengthening
selection and recruitment; enhancing teachers’
professional development; supporting teachers
in dealing with diversity in the classroom, etc.
For example by: addressing underachievement
in maths, science and literacy through effective
and innovative teaching and assessment;
promoting entrepreneurship education; fostering
critical thinking especially through teaching
science in environmental and/or cultural context;
etc.
Enabling success for all students, from the
lowest to the highest end of the academic
spectrum, including children with a migrant
background who might face specific (es.
linguistic) challenges; strengthening
collaboration among all actors within schools,
etc.
Achieve better learning outcomes and ensure a
good start in education for all - in particular
through taking the EU ECEC quality framework
further, as well as ensuring that the benefits of
early childhood education are carried through to
other school education levels; etc.
 Vocational Education and
Training’ Priorities

Developing VET business

Developing institutional Further strengthen key
partnerships
partnerships supporting the competences in VET
Promoting work-based learning set up and implementation
in all its forms, with special of an internationalization Including common
attention to apprenticeship strategy of VET learners methodologies for introducing
training, by involving social and apprentices those competences in curricula,
partners, companies and VET as well as for acquiring,
providers delivering and assessing the
Putting in place the necessary learning outcomes of those
Introducing systematic support infrastructure as well curricula
approaches to, and as the relevant institutional
and/or contractual frameworks Establishing feedback
opportunities for, the initial loops to adapt VET
to promote quality mobility
and continuous work placements of VET provision based on
professional development learners and apprentices in outcomes,
of another country including graduate
VET teachers, trainers and tracking systems
mentors
Including graduate tracking
In both school and work-based systems, as part of quality
settings, with a focus on assurance systems in line
developing effective open and with EQAVET
innovative education through the recommendation
use of ICT.
 Higher Education’
Priorities

• For actions promoting cooperation between Programme Countries :

a) activities to increase the uptake of subjects where skills shortages
Tackling skills gaps
exist and improve career guidance, and b) designing and developing
and mismatches
curricula that meet the learning needs of students that are relevant to
through:
the labor market and societal needs, including through better use of
open and online, blended, work-based, multi-disciplinary learning
models
Supporting the further
development of Also exploring options for improving the availability of comparable
graduate tracking data on graduate outcomes within Europe
systems in
Programme countries

Encouraging training Supporting the use of digital technologies and online delivery to
and exchange to improve pedagogies and assessment methods; setting up
enhance the quality of transnational teacher training courses and strengthening
teaching cooperation between teacher training centers
 Promoting and Including through developing effective incentive structures and
rewarding excellence in human resources policies at national and institutional levels,
teaching and skills training of academics in new and innovative pedagogical
development approaches, sharing of good practices through collaborative
platforms.
Building inclusive By: a) developing and implementing holistic institutional strategies for
inclusion and study success; b) improving pathways between schools, VET,
higher education
research institutes and higher education through multi-sector international
systems, connected to educational partnerships; c) developing, testing and implementing flexible
surrounding and modular course design; d) promoting the civic and social responsibility
communities of students, researchers and universities and recognizing voluntary and
community work in academic results
Higher
By promoting creativity, entrepreneurial thinking and skills for applying
Education Ensuring higher innovative ideas in practice; supporting the transfer of latest research
education institutions outputs back into education as input for teaching and encouraging
and research institutes undergraduates and master students to get involved in opportunities to help
contribute to innovation them explore contemporary research problems and develop their research
skills to become a researcher

Promoting Supporting changes in line with Bologna principles and tools.

internationalisation, Cooperation projects of universities, research institutes, university
networks and possibly private or non-profit actors to implement mobility
recognition and activities under the Erasmus+ Student Loan Guarantee Facility may be
mobility considered
• For actions promoting cooperation with Partner Countries:

Funding joint degrees, creating capacity-building,

Opening up mobility partnerships for cooperation and innovation
opportunities beyond between EU and non-EU higher education
Europe institutions (including innovative and creative
international curricula for the benefit of both mobile
and non-mobile learners), with a view to
modernizing higher education in less developed
parts of the world, in line with the external action
instruments
 Improving and
extending the supply Adult Education’ Increasing the
of high quality Priorities demand and take-up
learning
opportunities
Tailored to the needs of
Particularly in the
individual low-skilled or low- Developing effective teaching of
qualified adults so they mechanisms to literacy, numeracy and
acquire literacy, numeracy monitor the digital
or digital skills, including skills to low-skilled or low-
through the validation of effectiveness of adult
qualified adults, including
skills acquired through learning policies or to through the effective use
informal and non-formal track and
learning
of ICT
monitor the progress
of adult learners. Extending and
Facilitating access to developing educators'
upskilling pathways competences

By making available skills Through effective outreach,

identification and screening, guidance and motivation
learning offers adapted to strategies which encourage
individual learning needs, and low-skilled or low-qualified
through the validation of skills
adults, to develop and
acquired through informal and
non-formal learning
upgrade their literacy,
numeracy and digital skills
Programme’s practical opportunities and
information
 SERIOUSLY CONSIDER!
Does your project have an IMPACT at national/international level and an
EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE?

The potential IMPACT of the project
aim:
- On participants and participating
organizations, during and after the
project lifetime;
- Outside the organizations and
individuals directly participating in
the project, at local, regional,
national and/or European levels.
The EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE of the proposal
aim to:
- Help citizens to acquire more and better
competences;
- Enhance the quality of teaching in educational
institutions in the EU and beyond;
- Support Member States and non – EU partner
countries in modernizing their education and
training systems and making them more
innovative and promote learners’ participation
in society
 KA2-SP

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS

The Programme Guide specifies that should be

“substantial in quality and quantity to quallify
for this type of grant support” and cannot be
applied to cover small scale activities, which
have to be covered from the Project
Management and Implementation grant item.
 KA2-SP

What are the fields in which one can exploit

potentially winning ideas?
Transversal
competences for
Support citizens in the Reduction of the number
employability
achievement of new of adults with low-level
(entrepreneurial
competences and skills qualification
mindset, ICT, foreign
languages skills)

Widen the use and Work based learning

Modernize education access to ICT and open learning project
and training systems educational resources (es. apprenticeship or
during educational path dual system)

Strengthen the use of

European standards in
the recognition of
learning outcomes
Basic rules of the application process
▪ Create a ECAS account and subscribe your organization to the URF (Unique
Registration Facility) portal to get the Partner Information Code (PIC).
http://ec.europa.eu/education/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
▪ Upload relevant documents in the URF account: financial identification form
(http://ec.europa.eu/budget/contracts_grants/info_contracts/financial_id/financial_i
d_en.cfm#en) and legal entity form
(http://ec.europa.eu/budget/contracts_grants/info_contracts/legal_entities/legal_e
ntities_en.cfm#en)
▪ Dowload the application form and official templates according to the action on NA
web site (http://ec.europa.eu/education/tools/national_agencies_en.htm) or
EACEA (http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/)
Interest in Vocational Education and Training
field opportunities?
• Mobility of individuals for staff,
1 apprentices and learners

• Strategic partnership for VET

2

• Knowledge Alliances
3

• Sector Skills Alliances

4
 KA2

Knowledge Alliances: a centralized action

Alliance to foster Higher Education innovation through a
constant dialogue with business sector and the broader
socio economic environment
CREATE
New learning and
teaching methods
Scheme of transversal
skills
Practical application of
entrepreneurial skills
 In details
KA2
Action Knowledge Alliances (manage by EACEA)

Deadline One round per year usually in mid February

Possible Aims at strengthening Europe's innovation capacity and at fostering innovation in higher
objectives and education, business and the broader socio-economic environment.
outcomes

Possible • Boosting innovation in higher education, business and in the broader socio-economic environment by
activities developing and implementing new learning and teaching methods;
• Creating schemes of transversal skills learning and application throughout higher education programs
developed in cooperation with enterprises aiming at strengthening employability, creativity and new
professional paths;
• Opening up new learning opportunities through the practical application of entrepreneurial skills, which
can involve and/or lead to the commercialization of new services, products and prototypes, to the creation of start-
ups and spin-offs.
Eligible type of A participating organisation can be any public or private organisation established in a
organization Programme Country or in any Partner Country of the world
APPLICANT: any type of organization

Constraints for The project can last 2 or 3 years.

participations Budget: 700.000€ per 2y project – 1000000€ per 3y project, funded in unit costs or flat rate covering management,
partnership meetings, intellectual outputs (staff costs), multiplier event and subcontracts.
It can involves minimum six independent organisations from at least three Programme Countries, out of which at least
two higher education institutions and at least two enterprises.
 Sector Skills Alliance KA2

LOT 1: SECTOR SKILLS ALLIANCES FOR DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF VET(pg145)

Designing trans-national sector-wide vocational curricula
Delivering vocational curricula
partners will have to interpret research evidence on profession-specific skills needs when
implementing vocational education and training or designing qualification standards based on a
common European professional core profile, drawing, where available on ESCO (European Skills and
Competences). (https://ec.europa.eu/esco/portal/news/641c89b9-bd74-4be6-9d69-5d3761d658c2 )
Where appropriate, they should base themselves on already existing sector skills studies that have
been commissioned by the European Commission. The EU Skills Panorama provides a wealth of
skills intelligence, analyses and studies on profes-sions (occupations) and sectors.
The Alliance should then translate these into innovative, learning outcome-oriented vocational
curricula (applying ECVET) which include periods of work-based learning and which should be
underpinned by quality assurance mechanisms (in line with EQAVET).
 Sector Skills Alliance
LOT 2: SECTOR SKILLS ALLIANCES FOR IMPLEMENTING A NEW STRATEGIC APPROACH
(BLUEPRINT) TO SECTORAL COOPERATION ON SKILLS (page 146)
Sector Skills Alliances under this Lot shall set up sustainable cooperation on skills development
between key industry stakeholders in a given sector, education and training providers, and public
authorities.
Partners will have to develop a comprehensive and strategic approach encompassing all activities.
This strategic approach should be clearly linked to the overall growth strategy of the sector, with a
view to support the sector in addressing its most pressing challenges and achieving its medium
and long-term goals, including where relevant in terms of growth, innovation, competitiveness and
employment.

Next slide for industry sectors…

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 KA2

 A minimum of three participating countries representing ALL the three categories each
 Specific focus on one of the sector below: (FROM THE LAST CALL, THEY MAY CHANGE IN
THE NEXT ONE)
1. Blockchain
2. Cultural heritage
3. Cybersecurity
4. Rail supply and transport industries
5. Work integration Social Entreprises
6. Software services
 In details KA2
Action Sector Skills Alliances (managed by EACEA)
Deadline One round per year usually in mid February

Possible objectives Transnational projects drawing on evidence of trends in a specific economic sector and
and outcomes skills needed in order to perform in one or more professional fields. Sector Skills Alliances will work to
design and deliver joint vocational training programs and teaching and training methodologies.

Possible activities • Defining skills and training provision needs in a given specific economic sector:
• Designing joint curricula
• Delivering joint curricula

Eligible type of A participating organisation can be any public or private organisation established in a Programme
organization Country or in any Partner Country of the world
APPLICANT: any type of organization
PARTNERSHIP: In each country at least 3 full partners, at least three Programme Countries. For
every country more (than the minimum three) that a sector skills alliance covers it must also have at
least three full partners
Example: if a Sector Skills Alliance covers 5 countries, it needs 5 public or private entities that provide
VET (one per country), 5 public or private entities that have sector-specific expertise and represent or
are present in a given sector (one per country), and 5 public or private entities that have a regulatory
function for education and training systems (one per country). [exceptions are described in the guide]
Constraints for The project can last 2 or 3 years under LOT1.
participations Budget: 700.000€ per 2y project – 1.000.000 € per 3y project, funded in unit costs or flat rate covering
management, partnership meetings, intellectual outputs (staff costs), multiplier event and
subcontracts.
Under LOT2 the project lasts 4 years with budget of 4 million.
 KA2, what else does it supports?
1 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND YOUTH
• Aims to support the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative practices as well as
the implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of
experience at European level. Information can be found in the relevant section of the Guide

2 KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCES
• Aims at strengthening Europe's innovation capacity and at fostering innovation in higher
education, business and the broader socio-economic environment. Information can be found in
the relevant section of the Guide
3 SECTOR SKILLS ALLIANCES
• Aims at tackling skills gaps, enhancing the responsiveness of initial and continuing VET systems to
sector-specific labour market needs and demand for new skills with regard to one or more
occupational profiles. Information can be found in the relevant section of the Guide

4 CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION & YOUTH

• Aims to support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education and
foster cooperation in the field of Youth in the Partner Countries. Information can be found in the
relevant section of the Guide
 KA2-SP - Erasmus+
example of selected project
Title: Higher Education Supporting Refugees in Europe (inHERE)

Objective: Aim to address higher education access and integration of

refugees. The inHERE project will facilitate staff training and good practice
exchanges at European higher education institutions in order to better
address those needs. An analysis of good practices will lay the groundwork
for the development of such training and support tools.

Funding: Erasmus+ Key Action on Strategic Partnerships.

Coordinator: Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)

More information: http://www.inhereproject.eu/

 KA2-SP Erasmus+
example of selected project
Title: European Digital Portfolio for University Students (EDIPUS)

Objective: A new powerful tool, namely the EDIPUS Digital Portfolio Portal
(EDIPUS DPP) which will be addressing the employability needs of university
students and young graduates is created.
The DPP provides students with a digital area, where they can create their own
portfolio of experiences and qualifications in a creative and professional way.
The DPP aims to replace the traditional CV, by offering a smarter tool to students
to present their competences, which is knowledge, skills and experience.

Funding: Erasmus+ Key Action on Strategic Partnerships.

Coordinator: European Association of ERASMUS Coordinators (EAEC)

More information: http://www.edipus.me

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 KA1 what does it supports?
1 MOBILITY PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND YOUTH
• Promotion of transnational mobility activities targeting learners and staff active in the education,
training and youth fields. Information can be found here at page 33

2 LARGE SCALE EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE EVENTS

• Support of large-scale volunteering projects in the framework of European or worldwide events in
the field of youth, culture and sport. Information can be found here at page 86

3 ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT MASTER DEGREES

• High-level integrated international study programme of 60, 90 or 120 ECTS (European Credit
Transfer System) credits, delivered by an international consortium of HEIs from different countries.
Information can be found here at page 93

4 ERASMUS+ MASTER LOANS

• Higher education students at master level who want to complete a full study programme in another
Programme Country can apply for a loan to contribute to their costs. Information can be found
here at page 103
 The International Dimension of Erasmus+
International Credit Mobility

European Commission
Directorate-General for Education & Culture
 Erasmus+ is
international
▪ Investing in knowledge, skills and competences…

▪ …to benefit individuals, institutions and society as a whole

 EU higher education policy: a strong international focus

 EU cooperation with the world: a strong education focus

 Higher education
cooperation
opportunities

Academic Academic
mobility cooperation
International Capacity
credit mobility Building for
HE
Degree
mobility Jean Monnet
EMJMD Activities
 Erasmus+ 2014-2020 budget for
international actions (EUR million)

Jean Monnet
Capacity
Building
Internation for Higher
al Education
staff & Erasmus810
student Mundus
"credit"
Erasmus+ is worιdwide (2014-20J

Erasmus+
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

Limitations to outgoing student mobility for non-

Neighbourhood countries
Can also support traineeships

Longer projects: 24 or 36 months

Generous grant… and no tuition fees!

Same Quality Framework
as intra-European mobility

 Erasmus Charter for Higher Education

 Inter-Institutional Agreement
 Learning Agreement for students
 Mobility Agreement for staff

-
ec.europa.eu/education/opportunities/higher-education/quality
framework_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/education/opportunities/international-
cooperation/documents/guide-credit-mobility_en.pdf
 Organisational
support
EUR 350/participant

Individual support
EUR 700-900/month for students and
EUR 140-180/day for staff

Contribution to travel costs

EUR 20-1500, depending on distance
travelled
Programme Partner
Country HEI Country HEI
Programme Partner
Country HEI Country HEI

Participant
Guidelines +2019 Programme Guide (online)
'Do's and don'ts'
for applicants

FAQs for
students &
staff
Quick Reference
Guide for Partner
FAQs for Country HEIs
HEIs

ICM
handbook
 Communication is key!
Contact Find Build
NEOs/NAs ways to internal
meet! QA

Build a
Your structured Add your
Academic Use partners to
work plan
staff Use the Mobility
Staff
mobility OS? tool+ ?

Finding a Joint Synchronize Prepare

relevant preparation of working structures
and calendar
€ students and QA
partner HEI application staff
 KA3 what does it supports?
STRUCTURED DIALOGUE: MEETINGS BETWEEN YOUNG PEOPLE AND DECISION-
1 MAKERS IN THE FIELD OF YOUTH
• Promotes the active participation of young people in democratic life and fosters debate around
topics centered on the themes and priorities set by the Structured Dialogue and the renewed
political framework in the youth field. Information can be found in the relevant section of the Guide

2 EUROPEAN POLICIES EXPERIMENTATIONS

• Supports transnational cooperation with a view to implement innovative policies under the
leadership of high-level public authorities. Information can be found in the relevant section of the
Guide

3 FORWARD-LOOKING COOPERATION PROJECTS

• Proposes partnership of key stakeholders in view of identifying, testing, developing, assessing
new innovative approaches in the fields of education, training and youth, that have the potential
of becoming mainstreamed and giving input for improving educational and youth
policies. Information can be found in the relevant section of the Guide
 Useful advices
 Careful study of all the information concerning the call for
proposals
Work programme
Call for proposals
Guidelines for applicants
 Matching the idea with the objectives and priorities of the call for
proposals (eligibility check)
 Check if a similar project has already received funding
 Creation of a consortium with experienced and reliable partners
 STUDY the ERASMUS+ Work Programme
 Useful advices
Some Partner search mechanisms

▪ CORDIS Partner search: https://cordis.europa.eu/partners/web/guest/home

▪ IGLO Partner Search: http://www.iglortd.org/partner-search
▪ Enterprise Europe Network: http://een.ec.europa.eu/services/going-international
▪ NET4SOCIETY – Partner Search Support: http://www.net4society.eu/public/pss.php
▪ EACEA partner search tool (ad hoc tool with the publication of calls):
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.php
▪ EAEC Platform for exchanges and partnerships, www.eaecnet.com

Proposal Application eforms

https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/documents/eforms_en
FUTURE OF ERASMUS+

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Setting a vision for 2025 and beyond

Increase
Bring international
Europeans competitiveness
together + of European
higher education
 7

European Innovative
Enhanced staff
curriculum curricula with
mobility between
customised by innovative
the partner
each student
leading to a
+ pedagogies +
embedded
+ institutions to
teach/do
European structured student
research/work
degree mobility

=
European inter-university Campuses
Bachelor/Master/Doctoral levels
 9

Excellence and inclusion: key principles

to guide efforts towards this vision

Bring Higher quality

Inclusive Inclusive Europeans and
together competitiveness

broad student at least 3 HEIs minimum 3 innovative teaching

body from all types of MS/Programme and learning,
institution Countries cross-disciplinary
 12

▪ First pilot call launched end 2018

▪ to test different innovative and structural
models for implementing and achieving the
long-term vision
 13

3
YEARS

▪ to lay foundations
towards the long-term
strategy and
test the concept.
Next Steps

Spring 2019 Analysis of applications received

June 2019 Preparation of 2nd call

09-11/2019 Start of the first 12 European Universities

10/2019 Launch of the 2nd call

 European Student Card:
Political context

The Gothenburg Communication and the

European Council conclusions of 14 December
2017 identify European Student Card as one of
the actions to further simplify and promote
student mobility in Europe.
 European Student Card initiative

A bottom up initiative supported by the

European Commission through:

Erasmus+ funded projects

such as Erasmus without paper, Online Learning
Agreement, Erasmus+ mobile app, EMREX and
European Student Card

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) projects

to develop a unique student identifier for
authentication online
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Single entry point Single entry point

for institutions for students

Erasmus Erasmus+
Without Mobile App
Paper

Inter-
institutional Online Transcript
agreement learning of records
manager agreement
Multiple benefits
Great efficiency gains for students and
recognition of their student status in Europe

Better overview of available student services

Increased student satisfaction

Simplified management for universities

 WHEN?

▪ 2019-2020 Development and testing phase

▪ By 2021 Step by step roll out for all

Erasmus students

▪ By 2025 Possible roll out for all EU

students undertaking a period of
learning mobility
 Digital opportunity traineeships

pilot project to provide cross-border Erasmus+ traineeships for up

to 6,000 students and recent graduates in 2018-2020

Digital skills for

ICT specialist skills
business
 What is a traineeship in digital skills?

One or more of the following activities are practiced

by the trainee:
• digital marketing (e.g. social media management, web analytics)
• digital graphical, mechanical or architectural design
• development of apps, software, scripts, or websites
• installation, maintenance and management of IT systems and
networks
• cybersecurity
• data analytics, mining and visualisation
• programming and training of robots and artificial intelligence
applications

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 How does it work?
Use of the existing
Erasmus+ rules to
boost traineeships
What is a
digital skills in digital skills Geographical
traineeship? scope

• Definition in the 2018-2019 call Erasmus+ programme • Traineeships implemented in Erasmus+ programme
guides listing a number of activities (p. 32) countries: through KA103

• When one of the listed activities is practised during the • Traineeship implemented in Horizon 2020 associated
traineeship it becomes a "traineeship for digital skills" countries (including Switzerland): through KA107

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 What
can YOU
do?

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Build a strategy
 Consult with your colleagues
(professors, career service,
international relations office…)
to tailor your strategy
 Invest in Networking

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Help students find their traineeships to improve their
digital skills
 Involve career services and promote ErasmusIntern and
Drop'pin@Eures as platform where students can find digital
opportunity traineeships

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Get employers on
board
 Use our digital toolkit to inform
employers about this
opportunity
 Available in all programme
country languages
 More on the
Future Erasmus Programme
An evolution…NOT a revolution
30 12 c

Million people
Billion euros
c

to support
opportunities
abroad for
more than…
Supporting the creation
of a European Education
Area by 2025

▪ More inclusive and accessible

▪ More participatory
▪ More forward-looking
▪ More international
▪ Simpler and less bureaucratic
 Key Action 1

• More flexible mobility formats

• Simplification and Digitalisation:

European student card initiative

• Targeted mobility in forward-looking skills:

Digital Opportunity Traineeships initiative

• International Dimension

• Active participation
 Wider range of cooperation models

Key Action 2
Partnerships for Partnerships for Partnerships for
Cooperation innovation Excellence

Cooperation Projects Forward looking European

projects Universities

Alliances Erasmus Mundus

 Partnerships for European
Excellence Universities

Partnerships for
Innovation Erasmus
Ambitious

Mundus
Alliances

Forward
Looking
Projects
Long-term
Strategy
Cooperation
Projects Partnerships
for
Cooperation
ERASMUS+ in Lebanon

National ERASMUS+ Office in Lebanon

http://erasmusplus-lebanon.org/content/38

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 Thank you for your attention!

Prof. Gregoris A. Makrides

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ERASMUS COORDINATORS
makrides.g@eaecnet.com
greg@thalescyprus.com
www.eaecnet.com
www.eracon.info
www.astucon.eu