Erasmus+ Mobility of Individuals

Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals - EAC/A04/2014 – Key Action 1 “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” has been published by the European Commission, Directorate Education and Training.

 

The purpose of the current “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” call is to bring positive and long-lasting effects on the participants and participating organisations involved, as well as on the policy systems in which such activities are framed. In the long run, the combined effect of the several thousands of projects supported under this Key Action is expected to have an impact on the systems of education, training and youth in the participating countries, thus stimulating policy reforms and attracting new resources for mobility opportunities in Europe and beyond.

 

As regards students, trainees, apprentices, young people and volunteers, the mobility activities supported under the current “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” call are meant to produce the following outcomes:

- improved learning performance;

- enhanced employability and improved career prospects;

- increased sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;

- increased self-empowerment and self-esteem;

- improved foreign language competences;

- enhanced intercultural awareness;

- more active participation in society;

- better awareness of the European project and the EU values;

- increased motivation for taking part in future (formal/non-formal) education or training after the mobility period abroad.

 

Organisations active in the fields of education, training and youth will receive support from the Erasmus+ Programme to carry out under the current “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” call. A mobility project will consist of the following stages:

- Preparation (including practical arrangements, selection of participants, set up of agreements with partners and participants, linguistic/intercultural/task-related preparation of participants before departure);

- Implementation of the mobility activities;

- Follow-up (including the evaluation of the activities, the formal recognition - where applicable - of the learning outcomes of participants during the activity, as well as the dissemination and use of the project's outcomes).

 

The “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” call is funded in the framework of Erasmus+ Programme. Important innovations introduced in this Programme are:

- the reinforcement of the support offered to the participants of mobility activities in improving their foreign language competences before and during their stay abroad;

- the offering of space for developing mobility activities that involve partner organisations with different backgrounds and active in different fields or socio-economic sectors;

- the possibility for the participating organisations to organise mobility activities within a broader strategic framework and in the medium term (through a single grant application, covering a period of up to two years, the coordinator of a mobility project will be able to organise several mobility activities, allowing many individuals to go abroad to different countries. As a consequence, under Erasmus+ the applicant organisations will be able to conceive their project in line with the needs of participants, but also according to their internal plans for internationalisation, capacity building and modernization).

 

Depending on the profile of participants involved, the following types of mobility projects are supported under Key Action 1 “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” call of the Erasmus+ Programme:

- mobility project for higher education students and staff;

- mobility project for VET learners and staff;

- mobility project for school staff;

- mobility project for adult education staff.

 

The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of the action in the field of Youth is estimated at EUR 1 536 500 000. The duration of the project is 16 or 24 months. The applicant must choose the duration at application stage, based on the scale of the project and on the type of activities planned over time.

 

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the current “Mobility of individuals in the field of education and training” call is 4 March 2015.

 

Further information on the current call for tenders is available on the European Commission’s web site at: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/discover/guide/index_en.htm