This document provides information about the Erasmus+ program, the EU's program for education, training, youth and sport for 2014-2020. Some key points: - Erasmus+ will have a budget of €14.7 billion over 7 years, a 40% increase from the previous program, to support over 4 million people. - The program aims to support transnational partnerships and mobility in higher education and vocational education through three Key Actions - learning mobility for individuals, cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices, and support for policy reform. - Learning mobility will receive 63% of the budget and support over 2 million students in higher education as well as staff exchanges. Cooperation projects will

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Opportunities for
Higher Education

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Europe 2020 Strategy: indicators
 Tertiary level attainment: 40% of 30-34 year olds HE graduates
 Early School leaving: 10% of 18-24 year olds not enrolled
 Employability: 82% of graduates (20-34 year old)
being employed no more than 3 years
after they have completed education
Vision for 2020

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Agenda for the modernisation
of Europe’s higher education
systems
COM(2011) 567 final September 2011
European Higher Education in
the World
COM(2013) 499 final July 2013
Opening Up Education
COM(2013) 654 final 25 September 2013

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Key Messages of the EU Agenda for the
Modernisation of Higher Education
Increasing
tertiary
attainment
levels
Improving the
quality and
relevance of
higher
education
Strengthening
quality
through
mobility and
cross-border
cooperation
Linking higher
education,
research and
business for
excellence and
regional
development
Improving
governance
and funding

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 WHY?
 HOW?
 WHAT?
 WHEN?
ERASMUS+
•Relevance: a programme to support policy
•EU added value
•Sustained impact at 3 levels:
individual, institutional, systemic
•Simplification, rationalisation

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About 14,7 billion euros for the next 7 years
40% budget increase (+ EU external cooperation funds)
Over 4 million people to study, train, volunteer
or teach abroad
Erasmus+

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Budget breakdown
LEARNING MOBILITY OF
INDIVIDUALS
At least 63%
COOPERATION FOR
INNOVATION AND THE
EXCHANGE OF GOOD
PRACTICES
At least 28%
SUPPORT FOR POLICY
REFORM
4.2%

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Erasmus
GrundtvigLeonardo
Comenius
Youth in
Action
Erasmus
Mundus
Tempus
Alfa
Edulink
2007-2013 2014-2020
Erasmus+
1
Learning
Mobility
2
Cooperation
3
Policy
support
Education
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+ Specific activities:
Jean Monnet
Sport
Towards a single
integrated system

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Learning mobility
of individuals
Staff mobility for teaching and
training
Mobility for students
 Joint Master degrees
Credit mobility for HE between
programme and partner countries
 Student loan
Key Action 1
2 million higher education students
over 7 years
135,000 student & staff exchanges
with Partner countries
200,000 Master student loans
25,000 scholarships for Joint Master
degrees
MORE mobility
63% of total budget

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Diversity of
mobility types
 Credit mobility:
studies/traineeships
+ international mobility
 Degree mobility:
joint Master programmes
 Degree mobility:
Master programme loan
 Volunteering
 Intensive programmes
 Blended & virtual mobility
 Short term mobility:
teaching/training
+ international mobility
 Long term mobility
 Intensive programmes
 Joint staff training
STUDENTS
STAFF

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More inclusive
 Better linguistic
support for mobile participants
 Specific support to people with special needs
 More support to participants from disadvantaged background
 More support to remote areas
 Student loan guarantee
 Better use of new technologies

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Better mobility
• 2013 Call
4576 applications received
Results publication:
4308 Charters awarded
Erasmus Charter for Higher
Education
Fundamental principles
Before
During
After
Mobility
Best practices
Monitoring

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… in other wordsBetter mobility
- Erasmus Charter for Higher Education
(programme countries)
- Reinforced inter-institutional agreements to
set mobility flows & preconditions (new
template published in July)
- Learning Agreement for students
- Partner countries: ECHE principles included in
inter-institutional agreements
Improved Erasmus quality framework

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… in other words
– Reinforced learning & mobility agreements to
ensure recognition
– Flexible and cost efficient support for language
preparation
– Full use of IT Tools (application, reporting)
including Mobility Tool
– Reduced paper work: scanned signatures /
exchanges by emails
Better mobility
Improved Erasmus quality
framework

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… in other words
STUDYING AND
LEARNING ABROAD
Key Action 1:
-Credit mobility
-Degree mobility/joint
Master degrees
-Student loan guarantee

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… in other wordsStudent credit mobility
Student credit mobility
 All levels of higher education (Short cycle,
Bachelor, Master, Doctoral levels)
+ recent graduates + all disciplines
 From 3 to 12 months for studies
 From 2 to 12 months for traineeships
(not open to partner countries in first 2 years)
 Each student can benefit up to 12 months per study cycle
Education

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 Level of grants adapted to different
needs, including to country living costs,
remote regions/countries, and
to international mobility (EU external policy priorities apply)
 HEIs to apply for:
 Sending mobility to programme countries
 Sending and receiving mobility to/from partner countries
 Individually or within a consortia (extended to all types of mobility)
Student credit
mobility

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Student grant levels
Group 1
Programme Countries
with higher living
costs
Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy,
Lichtenstein, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United
Kingdom
Group 2
Programme Countries
with medium living
costs
Belgium, Croatia ,Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany,
Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal,
Slovenia, Spain, Turkey
Group 3
Programme Countries
with lower living
costs
Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia
 Student grant: subsistence + travel combined
Fixed at EU level

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International
opening
 No more relevant to differentiate between intra-EU and international mobility
 Full streamlining of calendar and procedures, management by National Agencies
(Note: international mobility will be launched later)
 Use of same quality instruments. Principles of the Charter will apply.
 ~ 135,000 student and staff mobility flows expected between Programme and
Partner countries
 Level of grants adapted
 Priorities of EU external action will apply (separate budget)

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… in other words
 Continuation of Erasmus Mundus action 1
 Excellent Joint Master courses offered by universities from Europe and
partner countries attracting best students through high level
scholarships scheme
 Centrally managed
 Expected: 25,000 students over 7 years
Degree mobility and
joint degrees

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 Minimum 3 HEI from 3 EU countries
 Funding for 3 intakes, then co-funding
(catalogue after a quality review)
 Universities from partner countries
encouraged to be full partners
 New Joint Doctorates funded under Marie
Skłodowska Curie
 Continued funding of Erasmus Mundus joint
Master and doctoral courses until 2017
Degree mobility and
joint degrees

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… in other words
Student loan guarantee
Information by
Erasmus+ national
agencies and
Europa website

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… in other words
STAFF MOBILITY
Key Action 1:
short term mobility

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Why is staff mobility
important?
 Improved competences
 Broader understanding of practices and policies across countries
 Enhances quality in teaching and learning
 Triggers changes in the modernisation and international
opening of their educational institution
 Promotion of mobility activities for
learners
Education

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Staff mobility -
short term mobility
 Staff mobility abroad for teaching or
training purposes
 Between programme countries:
from 2 days to 2 months (excl. travel)
 Between partner and programme countries:
from 5 days to 2 months (excl. Travel)
 Minimum 8 teaching hours of lecturing abroad
 Staff from enterprise encouraged to teach at HEIs

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 WHY?
 HOW?
 WHAT?
 WHEN?
Cooperation
in
Higher Education
Key Action 2

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Cooperation for innovation
and best practices
Strategic partnerships between
education/training or youth
organisations and other relevant actors
Large scale structured partnerships
between education and training
establishments and business:
Knowledge Alliances & Sector
Skills alliances
 IT-Platforms incl. e-Twinning
 Capacity building with Partner
countries and focus on neighbourhood countries
Key Action 2
MORE cooperation for
more INNOVATION
28% of total budget
20,000 Strategic Partnerships
150 Knowledge Alliances
1000 Capacity Building Projects

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Develop, test, adapt and implement innovative practices relating to:
HE Strategic
Partnerships
joint study programmes and joint curricula, intensive programmes
and common modules –including e-modules –between partnership
members from different countries, disciplines and economic sectors
(public/private), ensuring the relevance towards the needs of the
labour market;
project-based transnational collaboration between enterprises
and students/staff at higher education institutions to study real life
cases;
pedagogical approaches and methodologies especially those
delivering transversal competences, entrepreneurship mindset and
creative thinking, including by introducing multi-, trans-and
interdisciplinary approaches, building learning mobility more
systematically into curricula ('embedded mobility') and through a
better exploitation of ICT;

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… in other words
HE Strategic
Partnerships
the integration of a greater variety of study modes (distance, part-
time, modular learning), notably through new forms of personalised
learning, strategic use of open educational resources and virtual
mobility/learning platforms;
new approaches to facilitate permeability between education
sectors (i.e. through validation of prior learning and possibility of
flexible learning -modular studies, blended learning etc.);
the engagement of HEIs with local/regional authorities and other
stakeholders based on a collaborative work in an international setting
to promote regional development and cross sectoral cooperation to
build bridges and share knowledge between the different formal and
informal education and training sectors;
cooperation and exchange of practice between staff responsible for
support services, such as guidance counselling, coaching
methods and tools, development of systems that help track student
progress; or those involved in student support services, to increase
quality (i.e. attract and retain non-traditional learners, e.g. adults, and
underrepresented groups in higher education);

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… in other words
Mobility in
Strategic Partn.
More
cooperation for
more
innovation
 Possibility to organise mobility if it supports the objectives of
the partnership.
 Cross-sectorality encouraged in all activities.
 Intensive study programmes – 5 days to 2 months
 Blended mobility of students: less than 2 months
physical mobility coupled wit virtual mobility
 Long term teaching staff exchange – 2 to 12 months
Short term joint staff training – 5 days to 2 months

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Types of activities
 Developand implement new learning and teaching methods
 Develop and deliver new and innovative study programmes
 Organise continuing educational programmes and activities with and
within companies
 Schemes of transversals skills' learning in cooperation with enterprises
 Entrepreneurship education in any discipline
 Study field related activities which are
embedded in curricula
 Exchange of students, researchers,
teaching and company staff
 Start ups, Etc.
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Knowledge Alliances

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 Foster intense, structured and long term
cooperation among HEIs and with key
stakeholders to contribute to achieving the
objectives of the HE Modernisation
Agenda
 Open to any discipline
Promote, develop and implement long-
lasting structured partnerships between
business and academia to strengthen
Europe's innovation capacity, stimulate
entrepreneurship, stimulate 2-way
knowledge exchange between HEIs and
enterprises and foster excellence
Open to any disciplineand innovation
Strategic Partnerships Knowledge Alliances
Minimum 2
HEIs and 2
enterprises
Centralised
management
(EACEA)
At least 6
org. from 3
different
countries
Minimum 3
organisations
from 3
different
countries
Decentralised
management
(NAs)

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PARTNERSHIP &
DURATION
 Strategic partnerships can involve HEIs; enterprises; SMEs;
local/regional authorities; research institutions; NGOs; VET
providers; adult education providers; youth organisations;
training centres; European networks; social partners; chambers
of commerce; foundations, etc.
 2 or 3 years, grants up to € 150.000 per year
 Knowledge Alliances can involve HEI, research institutes,
enterprises, public bodies, social partners…
 2 to 3 years, grants between € 500.000 and € 1.000.000
 Use of unit costs

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Capacity Building
1. Joint projects: New curricula & degrees,
learning and teaching methodologies, staff
development, quality assurance, governance,
Bologna tools
2 types of projects with Neighbouring and Enlargement countries,
Russia, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP)
2. Structural projects: Reforms at national level with
support of authorities in Partner Countries (policy
modernisation, Bologna policies, governance and
management of higher education systems…)
+ Additional mobility component for ENP and
Enlargement countries

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Strategic
Partnerships
in Higher Education
Policy support
Key Action 3

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Support for policy reform
Open method of Coordination
EU tools: valorisation and
implementation
Policy dialogue with
stakeholders, non-EU countries
and international organisations
Large scale prospective
initiatives
Key Action 3
* TWG on modernisation of higher education peer learning
Peer review
Policy experimentation
* ECTS guide review
ECTS labels
* NARIC network cooperation
Sustaining projects, EAR manual
* Bologna process
* Ranking initiative, QA, Studies
Large scale projects with partners
- governance, tracking, autonomy(ex-ECA)
* Policy dialogue with selected world partners
4% of total budget

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Next steps
Education
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12 December
2013
•Publication of the first calls
21 December
2013
• Adoption of the legal base
Erasmus+
First
deadlines
• Key Action 1: 17 March 2014
• Key Action 2-KA: 3 April 2014
• Key Action 2-SP: 30 April 2014

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What to do to apply
Register in participants portal and receive a
PIC number
Check compliance with programme criteria
Check financial conditions
Fill in and submit application form

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