Within the European Commission's Erasmus+ Program Key Action 1 – Mobility of Individuals, ASU academic teaching staff may seek Erasmus+ funding for a teaching period at a partner institution abroad. The teaching must be carried out at a Higher Education Institution (HEI) that is a holder of an Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) with which ASU has signed a bilateral agreement in a specific area of teaching. 

EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF THE MOBILITY

The mobility activities are expected to produce the following outcomes:

• improved competences, linked to professional profiles;
• broader understanding of practices, policies and systems in education, training or youth across countries;
• increased capacity to trigger changes in terms of modernisation and international opening within their educational organisations;
• greater understanding of interconnections between formal and non-formal education, vocational training and the labour market respectively;
• better quality of their work and activities in favour of students, trainees, apprentices, pupils, adult learners, young people and volunteers;
• greater understanding and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity;
• increased ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged;
• increased support for and promotion of mobility activities for learners;
• increased opportunities for professional and career development;
• improved foreign language competences;
• increased motivation and satisfaction in their daily work.

Activities supported under this Action are also expected to produce the following outcomes on participating organisations:

• increased capacity to operate at EU/international level: improved management skills and internationalisation strategies; reinforced cooperation with partners from other countries; increased allocation of financial resources (other than EU funds) to organise EU/international projects; increased quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow up of EU/international projects;
• innovative and improved way of operating towards their target groups, by providing for example: more attractive programmes for students, trainees, apprentices, young people and volunteers in line with their needs and expectations; improved qualifications of teaching and training staff; improved processes of recognition and validation of competences gained during learning periods abroad; more effective activities for the benefit of local communities, improved youth work methods and practices to actively involve young people and/or to address disadvantaged groups, etc.;
• more modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment inside the organisation: ready to integrate good practices and new methods into daily activities; open to synergies with organisations active in different social, educational and employment fields; planning strategically the professional development of their staff in relation to individual needs and organisational objectives; if relevant, capable of attracting excellent students and academic staff from all over the world.

  VENUE OF THE ACTIVITY

  Faculty members must carry out their mobility activity in any Program Country different from the country of the sending organisations and the staff country of residence. The Erasmus Program Countries are the following:

  Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein.

  The receiving organisation must be:

  • a Program Country Higher Education Institution awarded with an ECHE

  ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES ABROAD:

  The home and the host institution shall ensure that the visiting faculty’s teaching and related activities will be an integral part of a diploma programme of the host institution. Priority should be given to mobility activities which will also:

  • lead to the production of new teaching material
  • training period can included in the mobility for teaching staff that allow them to develop pedagogical and curriculum design skills