Informatie-evenement over Erasmus+ voor landen binnen het Oostelijk Partnerschap (en)

Met dank overgenomen van Directoraat-generaal Onderwijs, jeugd, sport en cultuur (EAC) i, gepubliceerd op woensdag 23 oktober 2013.

Erasmus+, the EU’s new programme for education, training, sport and youth, will provide more opportunities for students and staff in Eastern Partnership countries to study or train in the European Union - and vice versa.

Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania will host an information event on 24-25 October, which will enable the European Commission to present in detail how the international dimension of the higher education part of the new programme will work. Teaching staff and managers from the main higher education institutions in the region will also receive a briefing on the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, which funds research fellowships.

The event brings together around 150 government officials, higher education staff, academic representatives and students' organisations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and EU Member States. The conference will also be an opportunity to take stock of the current Tempus and Erasmus Mundus programmes.

“Tempus and Erasmus Mundus have been great success since their launch in the region and I am happy to say that we will be able to support even more exchanges under our new programme. Education is instrumental for the prosperity and stability of our societies, because without well-performing education systems, there can be neither growth nor development," said Androulla Vassiliou i, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.

Erasmus+, to be launched in January 2014, will promote cooperation between the EU and Eastern Partnership countries, in particular by supporting short-term student and staff mobility. More students and higher education institutions will be able to take part in the programme compared with under current programmes. Students from Eastern Partnership countries will also be able to receive grants to participate in excellent joint Master programmes. Doctoral fellowships will be financed by the new Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, part of the new Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation. Erasmus+ will also support the modernisation of higher education institutions and systems and staff development in partner countries.

This event is organised in the context of the Eastern Partnership Platform 4 on contacts between people and the Eastern Partnership Youth Forum.

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