European Commission's Erasmus+ funding programme offers our university a wide range of opportunities in worldwide higher education cooperation with European countries and third countries worldwide. Numerous partnerships and projects are realised with the help of funding within the Erasmus programme. The core of the funding programme is international educational mobility for students, teaching staff and university employees.
Erasmus+ generation 2021 to 2027
The European Union is providing a budget of over €26 billion for the implementation of the Erasmus+ education funding programme in the multiannual financial framework, 2021 to 2027.
Our university is entitled to participate in the Erasmus+ programme and apply for funding through the awarded Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2021 to 2027 (ECHE). Our specific programme objectives are set forth in an Erasmus policy statement for Higher Education 2021–2027.
There are three Erasmus+ Key Actions for funding opportunities in higher education:
- Key action 1: Promotion of Erasmus+ mobility
- Key action 2: Funding of Erasmus+ university partnerships
- Key action 3: Erasmus+ policy support
The Key Actions are supplemented by the Jean Monnet actions: Promotion of research via the EU and the promotion of Erasmus+ sport actions.
The Erasmus+ programme is:
- fully implemented with 33 programme countries. Programme countries are the 27 EU member states as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Turkey.
- partially implemented with partner countries divided into 14 world regions. Partner countries are the neighbouring states of the EU, countries in the regions of Asia, Central Asia, Latin America, the ACP states (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific) and other industrialised countries. Great Britain and Switzerland (mobility support mainly through the Swiss European Mobility Programme – SEMP) are among the partner countries in Region 14.
Promoting academic mobility
We support cooperation between members of our university and institutions in programme and partner countries. Browse international exchange places to study as well as teach abroad.
Our university's International Centre is the central coordinator of the Erasmus+ educational mobility programme. At the institutes and faculties, our Erasmus+ departmental coordinators mainly manage student exchanges.
International mobility of our university members
As part of Erasmus+ Mobility of Individuals, we support academic stays of our students and our teaching and university staff at higher education institutions and organisations in programme countries. The basis for Erasmus+ cooperation is inter-institutional agreements with a partner university.
Our university is also a member of the European University Alliance Arqus, which is funded as a university cooperation by the Erasmus+ programme, and the Utrecht Network. Within the networks, the mutual exchange of university members is promoted as Erasmus+ educational mobility, among other things.
- For students and doctoral researchers: Study abroad
- For students and doctoral researchers: Internships abroad
- For staff: Periods of teaching and further training abroad
- For teachers and students: Educational mobility in a blended teaching-learning format
Spending time at our university
Through the inter-institutional agreements with partner universities in programme countries, Erasmus+ offers international university members, i.e. students, doctoral researchers, lecturers and other university staff, the opportunity to spend time at our university. The respective home organisations are responsible for Erasmus+ funding.
In the Erasmus+ programme line International Mobility with Partner Countries, we provide financial support for study, teaching and further education stays at selected partner institutions worldwide. Our university is responsible for promoting the stays of our university members abroad as well as international university members of partner institutions at our faculties and institutions.
The International Centre leads the application for funding and is responsible for the implementation of Erasmus+ funding projects. At subject level, project managers coordinate the collaboration and the Erasmus+ departmental coordinators at the faculties support student exchanges within the university partnerships.
Support is available for academic stays at institutions in eligible Partner Countries
as well as for academic stays at our university
Details on possible funding can be found in our database for study places and for teaching and training options.
Mobility programmes with the following universities are currently eligible for Erasmus+ funding:
| Region (according to Erasmus+) | Country | Partner institution |
|---|---|---|
| Region 1 – Western Balkans | Bosnia and Herzegovina | International University Travnik University of Sarajevo |
| Montenegro | University of Montenegro | |
| Region 2 – Neighbourhood East | Armenia | Yerevan State University |
| Georgia | Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University | |
| Moldova | Moldova State University Pedagogical State University of Chișinău „Ion Creangă“ State University of Balti „Alecu Russo“ State University of Cahul „Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu“ State University of Cahul „Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu“ State University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Nicolae Testemitanu“ Technical University of Moldova | |
| Ukraine | Ivan Franko National University of Lviv National University of „Kyiv-Mohyla Academy“ Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | |
| Region 3 – South-Mediterranean Countries | Egypt | Ain Shams University Badr University Cairo |
| Israel | Bar-Ilan University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Hebrew University of Jerusalem Tel Aviv University University of Haifa | |
| Jordan | German Jordanian University | |
| Region 5 – Asia | Indonesia | Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Hasanuddin |
| Japan | Chiba University Hiroshima University Keio University Waseda University | |
| South Korea | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Sogang University | |
| Taiwan | National Chengchi University Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages | |
| Vietnam | Hanoi University of Science and Technology University of Languages & International Studies Vietnamese German University | |
| Region 8 – Pacific | Australia | Macquarie University Monash University |
| New Zealand | University of Otago | |
| Region 9 – Sub-Saharan Africa | Benin | IRGIB-Africa |
| Cameroon | Université de Yaoundé | |
| Ehtiopia | Addis Ababa University | |
| Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | |
| Kenya | Mount Kenya University | |
| Mozambique | Universitade Pedagógica Maputo University of Rovuma | |
| Nigeria | University of Ibadan | |
| Rwanda | Institut d'Enseignement Superieur de Ruhengeri | |
| South Africa | Stellenbosch University | |
| Tanzania | University of Dar Es Salaam | |
| Uganda | Makerere University | |
| Region 10 – Latin America | Argentinia | Universidad Nacional de Cordoba |
| Brazil | University of Sao Paulo (USP) Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) Federal University of Pará (UFPA) | |
| Chile | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Universidad Católica de Temuco Universidad de Chile Universidad de Concepción | |
| Colombia | Colegio Mayor De Nuestra Senora Del Rosario Universidad EAFIT | |
Region 11 – USA and Canada | Canada | Carleton University |
| USA | Duke University Hobart and William Smith Colleges University of Arizona Vanderbilt University |
Promoting cooperative projects
Within Key Action 2, the European Union promotes partnerships and cooperation projects with institutions in Programme Countries and Partner Countries.
Erasmus+ offers various funding lines for this purpose, with which partnerships and cooperation projects can be funded and financially supported upon application. You can find information on our university's successful Erasmus+ project funding and numerous examples at ‘Project funding in teaching and studies’.