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ERASMUS


Benefits for students
  • Studying abroad (three to 12 months) at a partner university of your home university. You can choose to study either in an EU member state, or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania or Malta
  • Exemption from tuition fees at the guest university
  • Academic accreditation and official recognition of the credit points / degree earned at the host university
  • A mobility grant (maximum 200 €)
  • Special resources for students with disabilities
  • Improving your language skills by participating in one of the Erasmus Intensive Language Courses (EILCs) offered at host universities
  • Practical information, accommodation and assistance during your stay


Who qualifies?

  • Exchange students who are enrolled at a study programme at their home university, leading to a degree (including a Doctoral degree)
  • Students, who have completed at least one year in their home university
  • A study program at a host university, which is recognized by your home higher education institution
  • Students who are citizens of a EU and EEA member state or other countries, which are partners in ERASMUS programs

Students, wishing to take part in an exchange program have to prove certain language skills in order to understand the language of instructions.


You can find more information at your home and the different host universities.

The full list of national agencies organizing this kind of exchange program can be found on:

National Agencies



LEONARDO DA VINCI


The Leonardo da Vinci program offers support for the transnational mobility of people, working in the field of education, students and graduates. It aims at helping them improve their skills throughout their lives. The length of each mobility program is different, but is usually between three weeks and nine months.

Leonardo da Vinci actively supports the lifelong training policies conducted by EU member states. It supports innovative transnational initiatives for promoting the knowledge, aptitudes and skills necessary for successful integration into working life. There are five specific fields, in which the programme works:

  • Exchange and mobility programmes
  • Pilot projects
  • Promotion of language competencies
  • Transnational networks in Europe
  • Reference material (investigations and analyses)


Contact

  • EUROPEAN COMMISSION
    Directorate-General for Education and Culture
    Vocational Training
    Mr. M. Richonnier - Director
    Rue de la Loi 200
    B - 1049 Bruxelles
    e-mail: leonardo@cec.eu.int



  • CEDEFOP – European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
    GR - 55102 Thessaloniki
    Mr. Johan van Rens - Director
    Tel. (30-31) 490 111
    Fax. (30-31) 490 102
    e-mail: info@cedefop.eu.int
    CEDEFOP


A full list with all national agencies can be found on the following web page:

National Agencies

You can find more information about the Leonardo da Vinci programme here.



INCO II

INCO is aimed at giving extra added value to international research. Therefore, it is carefully designed to target specific forms of industrial cooperation in public and private laboratories is various countries. It also helps to promote the quality of EU science and technology worldwide and contributes to the implementation of the EU' s external policy.

The INCO II programme addresses separately, according to requirements, all EU member states and five different regions outside the EU, namely:

  • Countries preparing for accession: Bulgaria, Romania
  • The 12 NIS (New Independent States), as well as Mongolia, plus Central and Eastern European countries not in the pre-accession phase, namely Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  • The Mediterranean partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestine Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
  • Developing countries including those in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific, plus Asia and Latin America.
  • Developed economies and industrialised countries (USA, Japan, Korea)


Who qualifies?

  • The candidate must be a national of one of the eligible regions
  • Applicants should not be more than 40 years of age
  • Researchers must have a good knowledge of a working language of the host institute
  • The host institute must be established in an EU member state or in a state associated to the Fifth Framework Programme, and must be a member of the consortium proposing the joint research project or the concerted action.
  • The application must be submitted together with a research proposal for one of the specific programs of INCO II


For more information visit the following web page:

CORDIS (Community Research & Development Information Service)


Contact

  • INCO INFO DESK
    FP5 Programme Information Point
    European Commission
    Rue de la Loi 200
    B-1049 Brussels
    BELGIUM
    e-mail: inco@cec.eu.int



ERASMUS MUNDUS


Erasmus Mudus is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education, which aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries.

The goal of the programme is to strengthen European cooperation. This is achieved through different international links in higher education by supporting high quality European masters courses, by enabling students and visiting scholars from around the world to engage in postgraduate study at European universities and by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third countries.


The Erasmus Mundus programme is comprised of four concrete actions:

ACTION 1

Erasmus Mundus masters courses: they constitute the central component around which Erasmus Mundus is built. They are high-quality integrated courses at masters level offered by a consortium of at least three universities in at least three different European countries. The courses must be "integrated" to be selected under Erasmus Mundus, which means that they must foresee a study period in at least two of the three universities and that it must lead to the award of a recognised double, multiple or joint diploma.


ACTION 2

Erasmus Mundus scholarships: in order to give the Erasmus Mundus masters courses selected under Action 1 a strong external projection, a scholarship scheme for third-country graduate students and scholars worldwide is linked to them. This scholarship scheme addresses highly qualified individuals who come to Europe to follow the Erasmus Mundus masters courses or to work for them.


ACTION 3

Partnerships: in order to encourage European universities to open themselves up to the world and to reinforce their worldwide presence, Erasmus Mundus masters courses selected under Action 1 also have the possibility of establishing partnerships with third-country higher education institutions. These partnerships allow for outgoing mobility of EU graduate students and scholars involved in the Erasmus Mundus masters courses.


ACTION 4

Enhancing attractiveness: Erasmus Mundus also supports projects aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of and the interest in European higher education. It supports activities that improve the profile, the visibility and the accessibility of European higher education as well as issues crucial to the internationalisation of higher education, such as the mutual recognition of qualifications with third countries.


In concrete terms, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 Erasmus Mundus masters courses of outstanding academic quality. It will provide grants for some 5,000 graduate students from third countries to follow these masters courses, and for more than 4,000 EU graduate students involved in these courses to study in third countries. The programme will also offer teaching or research scholarships in Europe for over 1,000 incoming third-country academics and for a similar number of outgoing EU scholars. Last but not least, Erasmus Mundus will support about 100 partnerships between Erasmus Mundus masters courses and higher education institutions in third countries.


The programme is available to

  • the 25 EU member states
  • the candidate countries for accession to the EU (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey)
  • the countries of the European Economic Area / European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway)
  • all the other countries of the world ("third countries")


The list with the Erasmus Mundus master programmes is not released. Here you can find more information .



An EU- programme like ERASMUS offers students the possibility to gather valuable experience in other European countries, which can be useful for their future in different spheres of life. It also enables participants to explore different aspects of European cultural diversity, increases their general knowledge and teaches them to be tolerant.