The staff training action enables teaching and other staff of higher education institutions to spend a period of training between 5 days and 6 weeks in an enterprise or in an organisation such as a higher education institution in another participating European country.

What are the objectives of the staff mobility for training?

To allow the staff of higher education institutions to acquire knowledge or specific know-how from experiences and good practices abroad as well as practical skills relevant for their current job and their professional development.

To help building up cooperation between higher education institutions and enterprises.

What kind of training is offered?

The stay in the partner enterprise, organisation or institution can be called a variety of names: short secondment period, job-shadowing scheme, study visit, workshop, conference etc.

Are language courses included in the training?

Language training and attendance of conferences, seminars and workshops should not represent the majority of the total training days of the institution staff participating in Erasmus staff training.

Who can apply?

Staff must be from a higher education institution holding an ERASMUS University Charter.

At least the sending or the receiving country must be an EU Member State.

How to apply?

Staff members are selected by the sending higher education institution.

Staff members shall submit a work plan agreed by the receiving enterprise/institution to their institution. The plan must consist of at least:

• Overall aim and objectives
• Expected results from the training or learning activities to be carried out
• An agenda of the mobility period.

Please contact the international office and / or ERASMUS office of your home institution.

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