1. SMART AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH ERASMUS PLUS 2014-2020

2. OBJECTIVES • The Programme is a new action for EU in the field of Education, Training, Youth and Sport. • The Programme covers education at all levels, in a lifelong learning perspective, in particular Higher education, Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning, School Education and Youth. • Erasmus Plus replace seven existing programmes with one: it brings together the existing Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius and Grundtvig), Youth in Action, and five international cooperation programmes (Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Alfa, Edulink and the programme for cooperation with industrialised countries)

3. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

4. OBJECTIVES • To support young people gain more and better skills by studying & training abroad. • To enhance teaching quality in the EU and beyond. • To support Member States and partner countries in modernising their education and vocational training systems. • To promote youth participation in society. • To support teaching and research on European integration. • To support European grass-roots sport.

5. OBJECTIVES Master's degree loan guarantee • 330 000 students International students • 135 000 students Joint degree grants • 34 000 students Strategic Partnerships • More than 20 000 linking together - 115 000 institutions Knowledge Alliances • 200 set up by 2000 higher education institutions and businesses Sectoral Skills Alliances • 200 set up by 2000 education and training providers and businesses Overall budget • €16 billion (includes €1.8 billion for international cooperation) Overall mobility opportunities • 4 million people Higher education • 2.2 million students Staff mobility • 1 million teachers, trainers, youth workers and other staff Vocational education and training • 735 000 students Volunteer and youth exchange • 540 000 young people

6. PROGRAMME STRUCTURESub-programmes • STRAND: Education, training and youth: • Learning mobility of individuals • Cooperation for innovation and good practices • Support for policy reform • Jean Monnet Initiative • STRAND: Sport

7. ACTIVITIESLearning mobility of individuals Key action 1: Learning mobility of individuals Key action 1: What does it mean for HE? • Staff: teachers, trainers, school • leaders and youth workers • Students: HE students (including • joint/double degrees) and VET • Students • Masters Students: Erasmus Masters • via a new loan guarantee • mechanism • Youth mobility: volunteering and • youth exchanges • International dimension: HE mobility for EU and non-EU beneficiaries • International opening of Erasmus: more mobility of students and staff between EU – non EU in both directions (credit mobility through NA) • Joint Master coursesof high quality offered by consortium of EU/non EU universities to attract the very best students worldwide (degree mobility centralised) • Student Loan guarantee to boost degree mobility within Europe

8. ACTIVITIESCooperation for innovation and good practices Key action 2: Co-operation for innovation and good practices Key action 2: What does it mean for HE? • Strategic partnerships between • education institutions (or between • youth organisations) and/or relevant • actors • ‘Knowledge Alliances’: Large-scale • partnerships between higher education • / training institutions and businesses • - ‘Sector Skills Alliances’ • IT support platforms, including e- • Twinning • International dimension: Capacity building in third countries, focus on Neighbourhood countries • Erasmus Strategic Partnerships: more intense cooperation between institutions. • Knowlegde Alliances: structure partnerships between HEI and businesses • 3. Specific support withneighbourhood countries: More cooperation between universities for capacity building and more student and staff mobility. • 4. Rest of the world: More cooperation between universities in the EU and rest of the world for capacity building.

9. ACTIVITIESSupport for policy reform Key action 3: Support for policy reform Key action 3: What does it mean for HE? • Support to Open Method of • Coordination (ET 2020, EU youth • strategy) and EU 2020 • EU transparency tools: • valorisation and implementation • Policy dialogue with stakeholders, • International dimension: Policy dialogue with third countries and international organisations • Support the OMC, Higher Education Modernisation Agenda, Bologna Process:. • Support development and implemenation of EU transparancy toolsand EU widenetworks • 3. SupportPolicy Dialoguewith third countries

10. ACTIVITIESUpdated priorities • Multilateral projects • Cooperation between HE and enterprises • Social dimension in higher education • Develop mobility strategies and remove barriers to mobility • Support to the modernisation of higher education agenda • Fostering excellence and innovation Academic Networks Accompanying Measures

11. ACTIVITIESJean Monnet Initiative • The Jean Monnet activities aim is to promote teaching and research on European integration world-wide among specialist academics, learners and citizens, notably through the creation of Jean Monnet Chairs and other academic activities, as well as by providing aid for other knowledge-building activities at higher education institutions; to support the activities of academic institutions or associations active in the field of European integration studies and support a Jean Monnet label for excellence. • In the light of its specific efforts to promote excellence in education and research on EU integration, the Jean Monnet Initiative will continue as a separate activity within the Programme and will share its delivery mechanisms.

12. ACTIVITIESJean Monnet Initiative Supported activities • Teaching and research on European integration world-wide among specialist academics, learners and citizens, notably through the creation of Jean Monnet Chairs and other academic activities, as well as by providing aid for other knowledge-building activities at higher education institutions; • Activities of academic institutions or associations active in the field of European integration studies and support a Jean Monnet label for excellence. • Support the following European academic institutions pursuing an aim of European interest; • the European University Institute of Florence; • the College of Europe • Policy debate and exchanges between the academic world and policy-makers on Union policy priorities

13. ACTIVITIESSport • The EU cooperation in the field of Sport will be treated as a separate activity within the Programme. The Programme will focus on: strengthening good governance and the knowledge base for sport in the EU; promoting health-enhancing physical activity; exploiting the potential of sport to foster social inclusion, promoting dual careers through education and training of athletes; and tackling transnational threats such as doping match fixing, violence, racism and intolerance. Supported activities • transnational collaborative projects; • non-commercial European sporting events of major importance; • strengthening of the evidence base for policy making in the field of sport; • capacity building in sport; • dialogue with relevant European stakeholders.

14. PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILE COUNTRIES The Programme is open to the participation of the following countries • the Member States; • the acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates benefiting from a pre-accession strategy, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes established in the respective Framework Agreements, Association Council Decisions or similar agreements. Requiredin country structures • For full participation in the programme: establishment of a National Agencies at state level • Restricted participation (no need for National Agency): IT Platforms, eTwinning, higher education and youth mobility to/from EU

15. PARTICIPATION TARGET GROUPS • For all STRANDS: any public and private body active in the areas of education, training, youth and grassroots sport • For Sport STRAND: public bodies or civil society organisations active in the area of grassroots sport. APPLICATION PROCEDURE • Centralised direct management by the Commission • Centralised indirect management with the delegation of implementation tasks to: • national executive agencies • national public-sector bodies/bodies with public-service mission • Joint management with international organisations • Applications are done through calls of proposals. • The funding will be reflected in the multiannual indicative programming, in line with the identified needs and priorities of the countries concerned. • The Commission may launch joint calls with third countries or their organisations and agencies to jointly fund projects. Projects may be evaluated and selected through joint evaluation and selection procedures to be agreed upon by the funding agencies involved

16. PARTICIPATION Where to find information at EU-level • Commission Communication – ‘Erasmus for All’: http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-for-all/doc/com_en.pdf • Europe 2020: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/index_en.htm • Horizon 2020: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=home&video=none • Agenda for the Modernisation of Europe’s higher education institutions: http://ec.europa.eu/education/higher-education/agenda_en.htm • Leuven Communiqué: http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/bologna/conference/documents/leuven_louvain-la-neuve_communiqu%C3%A9_april_2009.pdf • Bucharest Communiqué: http://www.ehea.info/Uploads/%281%29/Bucharest%20Communique%202012.pdf • Mobility strategy for the EHEA: http://www.ehea.info/Uploads/(1)/Mobility_Strategy_DRAFT%20FOR%20ADOPTION.pdf • Bologna Process Implementation report (2012): http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/thematic_reports/138E

17. PARTICIPATION Where to find information at EU-level • www.ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm • http://www.nuffic.nl/international-organizations/international-education-monitor/nuffic-blog/europe-2020-the-importance-of-higher-education-for-europe2019s-smart-sustainable-and-inclusive-economy-1 • http://www.innovationeu.org/news/innovation-eu-vol2-1/0189-the-role-of-education-in-the-new-europe-2020.html • http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:119:0002:0010:en:PDF • http://www.learningteacher.eu/news/2009/05/strategic-framework-european-cooperation-education-and-training-et-2020 • http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:308:0046:0051:EN:PDF