Erasmus+ funding opportunities

Key Action 1

Key Action 1 is mainly devoted to the international mobility of individuals for educational purposes.
The sub-actions for which the Projects Unit of the International Office provides assistance are:

• Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM): it funds bilateral international mobility projects with universities from non-European countries [ITA], providing grants for students (for studying, thesis research, traineeships), faculty members and staff (teaching and training); 
• Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education and Youth: it funds multilateral virtual mobility projects for young people aged between 13 and 30. All projects under this call will involve partner institutions located in the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, Southern Mediterranean regions, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Key Action 2

Key Action 2 aims to improve the fields of Education, Training, and Youth by supporting innovative multilateral projects focused on the development of new educational programmes, methodologies, and tools. 

The sub-actions for which the Projects Unit of the International Office provides assistance are:

• Cooperation Partnerships: it supports multilateral transnational partnerships aimed at the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative and high-quality educational practices;
• Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters: it supports management and mobility costs of high-level Joint and Double Degrees programmes;
• Erasmus Mundus Design Measure: it supports the developing/negotiating phase of a Joint or Double Degree programme;
• Alliances for Innovation: it supports multilateral transnational partnerships aimed at the development, transfer and/or implementation of innovative and high-quality educational practices. It has a specific cross-sectoral dimension, encouraging cooperation and flow of knowledge among Higher Education, Vocational Education and Training, Research, Enterprises, and partners from the business sector in general;
• Forward Looking projects: it supports large-scale multilateral transnational projects that aim to identify, develop, test and/or assess innovative (policy) approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstream, thus improving education and training systems. The partnerships must include public authorities in the fields of Education and Training;
• Capacity Building in Higher Education: it supports multilateral actions of international cooperation aimed at the improvement and modernisation of Higher Education’s systems in non-EU countries for socio-economic recovery, growth and prosperity. ù
• Erasmus+ Teacher Academies: it supports the creation of European partnerships of teachers education and training providers, with the aim of establishing teacher academies that develop a European and international perspective in their training.

Jean Monnet Actions

Jean Monnet Actions support teaching and research in the field of European Union studies worldwide. European Union studies refers to the teaching, learning and research about the EU’s history, aims, structures, functions and/or its policies.

The sub-actions for which the Projects Unit of the International Office provides assistance are:

• Jean Monnet Modules: it supports the implementation of teaching programmes or courses in the field of European Union studies. Each Module has a minimum duration of 40 teaching hours per academic year for a duration of three years;
• Jean Monnet Chairs: it supports the development of teaching posts with a specialisation in European Union studies for university professors for a duration of three years. A Jean Monnet Chair is held by only one professor, who provides the minimum of 90 teaching hours per academic year;
• Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence: it supports the development of focal points of competence and knowledge on European Union subjects. They should gather the expertise and competences of high-level experts aiming at developing synergies between the various disciplines and resources in European studies;
• Jean Monnet Policy Debate: it supports the creation of large thematic networks in Higher Education with the primary objective of collecting, sharing and discussing among the partners research findings, content of courses and experiences, products (studies, articles, etc.). 
• Jean Monnet Teacher Training: it supports training activities that enable school teachers and vocational education and training providers to develop new skills, teach EU-related subjects, and devote themselves to them, empowering them through a better understanding of the EU and how it works.

• Jean Monnet Networks in other fields of Education and Training: it supports the creation of international networks that enable teachers in schools and vocational education and training institutions to refine their knowledge of how to teach subjects relevant to the European Union, while also lending an international flavor to the learning exercise.